Overview
- In fresh interviews, the filmmaker characterizes the 2015 film’s post‑production as the worst period of his 32‑year career.
- He says producers prioritized opening‑weekend results and pressed for about 25 minutes of cuts, including childhood backstories, which he believes damaged the film.
- Kashyap says the budget swelled from an envisioned roughly Rs 28 crore to about Rs 90 crore, while the worldwide gross reached only around Rs 43.20 crore.
- After the failure, he recalibrated in 2016 by securing Rs 3.5 crore for a new film from backers who agreed without seeing a script or cast to avoid big‑budget traps.
- He emphasizes that the trauma arose in post‑production rather than during shooting and frames the episode as a turning point in how he chooses projects.