For years, there’s been a misconception about filmmaker Anurag Kashyap allegedly partaking in the consumption of substances. However, he recently clarified that he is allergic to them. Kashyap recalled he had to take emergency medicine when a fan had gifted him a box of joints at a film festival.
Anurag Kashyap can’t shake off ‘ganjedi’ tag; recalls fan gifting him marijuana and facing medical emergency: “I had to take an antihistamine immediately”
During a conversation on a podcast Flip the Script with Shubra, Anurag said, “Because I’ve made Gangs of Wasseypur and Raman Raghav, people think I’m a psychopath. People are initially very scared of meeting me. And when they meet me, they get totally overwhelmed because I’m completely opposite of their perception. I can’t change that. A lot of people think that I smoke up. Often, when I get trolled, people call me ‘ganjedi’ and ‘nashedi’. But I just roll my cigarettes; they don’t even know I’m allergic to it. I get serious asthma attacks even if I smell somebody smoking pot around me.”
Recalling a fan story from the Toronto International Film Festival, the director said, “I was in Toronto for the festival, and somebody came and said, ‘I’ve got a nice gift for you’. He had a wrapped bag, with flowers on it. And because I’m allergic to it, I can smell it from a distance. I said, ‘What’s in that bag’. He said, ‘Something you’d love’. I opened the bag, and he had rolled…