New Delhi:
Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, whose latest offering IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack has impressed fans and critics alike, has finally opened up about the failure of his last two releases – Anek and Bheed. In a recent interview with The Indian Express, the director said that he was depressed after his films did not perform as expected. “It almost discourages you from making more films. It breaks your heart, it breaks your spine. You lose confidence. You’re almost encouraged not to make the film again. But then something else convinces you enough to do it again, and then you look back and say, ‘No, that it’s not a big deal, it’s okay”.
“I had three hits in a row and then I had two films that didn’t work and those were also strange times and I did a dark film (Bheed) about the Corona tragedy and in black and white it didn’t work. It’s okay. As long as you don’t feel ashamed of your film, as long as the people who participated in that film with you are not ashamed, you take it in your own way. When you read or write history, you turn the page and you’re over a decade into the history of filmmaking, so don’t take yourself so seriously,” about the success of IC 814: The Kandahar enjoyed by the filmmaker.
Anubhav Sinha also claimed that if “you do 10 films and if you end up doing five films that are hits, you’re doing pretty well.”
Anek was released in theaters in May 2022 and Bheed in 2023, starring the likes of Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar.
