Anurag Kashyap is wrong, Bengali cinema isn’t ‘ghatiya’. But dubbed Pushpa, KGF are winning

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But after all this grandstanding, when someone like Anurag Kashyap—whose cinema, politics, and worldview tend to align with those of Bengal’s leading filmmakers—calls Bengali cinema “ghatiya”, there is all-round heartburn and hatred. This, primarily, is what ails Bengali cinema today. Every time a masala blockbuster like Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Animal or Atlee Kumar’s Jawan rakes in astronomical worldwide box office collections ( Rs 917.82 crore and Rs 1,148.32 crore respectively), West Bengal’s filmmakers, consumers, and critics snigger. They scoff that Bengali cinema would never trade common sense, decency, and good taste for commerce. Bengal’s biggest filmmaker Srijit Mukherji even told...