Anurag Kashyap is said to be one of the most honest people in the Bollywood film Industry. He is not known to be one to sugar-coat his words. His brutally honest nature has put him in this place.

In a recent interview, Anurag Kashyap was asked about the reason that many productions houses running into losses and eventually shutting down. His words and the way he exhibits the reason was all from his mind and unfiltered.

“We had four Bollywood actors in the Forbes highest paid actors whereas the rest were Hollywood actors. The films starring the Hollywood actors earn in millions and billions but ours earn at max Rs 300 crore. But still, there are Indian actors on that list. So if you see the ratio on the list, the business of the film vs. income of the actor, there is a huge disparity. Actors from the industry where film earns Rs 300 crore is on the list and on the other hand, there are films which earn 1.2 billion in other industries and the actors are even below our actors on the list. So I hope you got where the issue is,” said Anurag.

It seemed like he aimed at Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar who are on the list of Forbes highest paid actors.

“I am not blaming the actors for this, all the blame should be passed on to the producers as they are ready to pay the actor such high amount. Why wouldn’t the actor take that money? If someone pays me, even I would take that.”

He also added:

“Films should be made because the director or producer believes in the script. You shed an old skin and grow a new one. To give rise to new, the old one has to die.”

Anurag Kashyap added that the studios will always be important for the film industry as they bring certain order to it. But what the industry lacks are passionate directors and producers.

The dig on the top earning actors wasn’t subtle as such, but it’s interesting to see what reactions it will garner.