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Anurag Kashyap is a controversial director who has given some path-breaking movies like Dev D and Gangs of Wasseypur. Apart from being called toxic, he has also been accused of sexual harassment. But very few people know that the director faced sexual abuse as a child for many years which had an enormous impact on his mindset. It was this sexual abuse experience that made him try the same activity on other young boys and later on he even made a movie on that starring his ex-wife Kalki Koechlin .
During one of his throwback interviews, Anurag Kashyap discussed the trauma of sexual molestation he faced during childhood and how it made him the negative person that he became during his teens. He said, “I was around six years old. The men would take me on a cycle or in a stadium. Aur aksar jaise hota hai ki koi padosi ka ladka hota tha ya phir family mein se hi koi hota hai. Our parents did not probably dare to consult our neighbours about their son since the man was the boss of my father.”
It destroyed the confidence in young Anurag and he could not talk with anyone. The director said, “I was a very edgy and angry kid because I did not know how to deal with it. My father would get transferred but the abuse would continue because the person would change.” After the second and third time, he started feeling that the problem lay within him. He suffered sexual abuse until he was 11 years of age and at that time he felt that if it was happening to him, he should also do it to someone else.
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And he did act like that. Revealing how exactly he acted, Anurag Kashyap said, “You know I would do to him what everybody did to me. Would take that kid aside and slap him around and then he would become vulnerable and then I would hug him and also play with him.”
It was the time when the hormones start soaring and young boys do not know how to handle that sudden surge in energy. But unlike Anurag, this boy complained to his parents who asked him what he was doing to their child. And later on, when he turned into a filmmaker he made Yellow Boots based on his experiences. During his interview, the Bombay Velvet director said that more than anything he wanted to do this film.
