There has been a lot of conversation around Twitter regarding the Bollywood industry, the camps, nepotism in the past few days. Director Anubhav Sinha — the one behind critically acclaimed films like Mulk, Article 15 and Thappad — has been one such personality who has been vocal about these topics for most part. But just last night, he took to his Twitter and said that he had had enough and that he is ‘resigning from Bollywood’.
The director tweeted:
ENOUGH!!!
I hereby resign from Bollywood.
Whatever the fuck that means.— Anubhav Sinha (Not Bollywood) (@anubhavsinha) July 21, 2020
Post this, directors Sudhir Mishra and Hansal Mehta joined in the conversation to back his statement. While Hansal Mehta said that it ‘never existed’ according to him, Sudhir Mishra asked ‘What’s Bollywood?’. He says that he was inspired to make films because of legends like Satyajit Ray, Raj Kapoor Shekhar Kapur, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar among others, and that’s where he’ll always stand.
Check out their tweets:
What’s Bollywood?I came 2be partof Cinema inspired by Satyajit Ray ,Raj Kapoor,Guru Dutt,Ritwick Ghatak,Bimal Roy,Mrinal Sen , Hrishikesh Mukherjee,KAsif,Vijay Anand ,Javed Akhtar,Tapan Sinha, Gulzar ,Shekhar Kapur,Ketan Mehta , Bharatan n Aravindan etc.Thatswhere I’ll always be.
— Sudhir Mishra (@IAmSudhirMishra) July 21, 2020
छोड़ दिया… It never existed in the first place.
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) July 21, 2020
Replying to Sudhir Mishra’s tweet, Anubhav said that he is glad two people are out now, and states that he will also continue to make films in the Hindi film industry.
Here’s what he said:
चलो दो लोग BOLLYWOOD से बाहर। अपन हिंदी फ़िल्म इंडस्ट्री में रह के फ़िल्में बनाएँगे।
यह ले अपनी लकुटी कम्बरिया, बहुतही नाच नचायो। https://t.co/gimZWCIKgK— Anubhav Sinha (Not Bollywood) (@anubhavsinha) July 21, 2020
Reflecting upon why he became a part of Bollywood, Anubhav says he doesn’t know why, and that he just wanted to make good films. But he says he has started to figure out why now.
His tweet read:
I didn’t know why I came. I just wanted to make movies. I have just started figuring out why though. https://t.co/bTkNB9iYGw
— Anubhav Sinha (Not Bollywood) (@anubhavsinha) July 21, 2020