Anurag Singh Kashyap

Anurag Singh Kashyap is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Kashyap made his directorial debut with as yet unreleased Paanch , with Kay Kay Menon as the lead. As a filmmaker, he is known for Black Friday (2004), a controversial and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking (2007), Dev D (2009) Gulaal (2009) That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011) and Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). As a screenwriter, he wrote the scripts for the Filmfare Award-winning Satya (1998) and the Academy Award-nominated Canadian film Water (2005). In 1999, Kashyap won the Best Screenplay award for Satya at the Star Screen Awards. The next year, his short film Last Train to Mahakali won the Special Jury Award at the same awards.His feature film debut Black Friday won the Grand Jury Prize at the 3rd Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (2005),and was a nominee for the "Golden Leopard" (Best Film) at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival (2004).In 2010, he announced his association withTumbhi where he and his team will make six short films for Tumbhi and start his blog with them, as wellHe was listed on the The DNA power list: Top 50 influentials, a list of 50 most influential Indians in 2011.Kashyap currently serves on the board of Mumbai-based NGO, Aangan Trust, which helps protect vulnerable children around India.

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