Overview
- In a Sit with Hitlist interview on March 11, Anurag Kashyap called the mention in the records "a random mail" and dismissed any association.
- The DOJ disclosure named roughly 300 public figures, and reports say Kashyap’s name appeared in emails about potential invitees for a proposed event in China where he was described as a famous Bollywood director.
- News coverage notes there is no evidence he met Jeffrey Epstein, joined related events, or engaged in wrongdoing.
- Kashyap added that he has never been to Beijing and visited Shanghai only once before 2014.
- He also said a 2021 Income Tax raid at his home concerned valuation and splits tied to his former banner Phantom Films, which dissolved in 2018.