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Anurag Kashyap's Nishaanchi has brought back that long-missed 'Kashyap wali film' feeling for the janta!

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Sakshi Sharma
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Anurag Kashyap's Nishaanchi

Despite a lower turnout at the box office, Anurag Kashyap’s Nishaanchi seems to have hits the bull’s-eye, earning praise from the janta who turned up in the theatres craving a Kashyap film!

Anurag Kashyap has always been a filmmaker whose personality is as boldly different as his films. He is constantly in the news for something he has said whether it’s his commentary on the bad practices of the Hindi film industry, his frustration with the politics that once led him to step away from it, or his championing of new independent cinema that might otherwise have missed the spotlight. He is outspoken, vocal, and everywhere yet it has been ages since we saw him truly speak through a film. That is why anticipation for Nishaanchi was so high for nostalgic Kashyap fans. Would it be his revenge on the industry, or his war cry, much like his earlier explorations that were as much about cinema itself as about showing audiences what a film could be? And in that sense, Nishaanchi feels like everything Kashyap stands for. It is his love letter to the cinema he grew up on, the cinema that shaped him, and at the same time a return to the form that once made him a cult figure of being a film school himself from which so many students have emerged and continue to.

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Yet, despite the low theatre turnout suggested by box office numbers, those who did show up have been full of praise. Many wonder why Kashyap’s loyal cult following, the ones who proudly call themselves his loyalists didn’t show up for him this time. Because while the film may be flawed, it is still engaging, entertaining, and unmistakably Kashyap in form. Others have praised it for its rootedness from its use of folk music to its casting of fresh faces who shoulder the film without needing to be breakout stars just yet.

Here's what they are saying! 

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