Anurag Kashyap stated "I was always told i can not make a love story and it always bothered me. But there wasn't a love story i related to. Not the ones they referred to. I enjoyed QSQT, DDLJ, Maine Pyaar Kiya and then i grew up. Later I enjoyed Dil Chahta Hai, Metro and Jab We Met. One was about growing up and friendships, second was about relationships the latter was fun. But could i make something like that without killing it, the very thing that made it. Impossible. But yes i did want to make a love story. The love story that i have enjoyed the most, Head On by fatih akin(in recent times) and "love me if you dare", these were the one's i wished i made them. Chungking express and Happy Together and In the mood for Love. Breathless. Jules et Jim. Will I ever get to make something like them. No. I wasn't that good . So i never attempted to make one. Only once I got any closer to write a love story was Gulaal, but was it a love story?There was a love story or many unrequited ones in it amongst others. So why could i never make a love story? Because i had set myself very high standards and that blocked me from even attempting one. I was also too scared of my own darkness. Failure of NS scared me even further.Abhay had started it and i was excited but NS came and bombed, filling me with severe self doubts. We were set to go on the shoot, I lost courage. I could not write, Vikram's draft was done, I had to add my bits to it, and my ideas were formed but i lost courage. I sank. I disappeared, went through some really indescribable things. And it suddenly came back. It came because of a lot of people judging me on the basis of that one film. A NS which i am extremely proud of and because i kept refusing to say that,"i m sorry, i made a mistake with it". And the failure of people to get it and my failure to reach out to them with it, made them write off "black friday" and all else. I felt judged and that gave me the idea to what to do with Dev.D. Write a story about the young people who were judged by the society and were given no chance to come back. That is what Dev.D is. It's the story of the outcasts. People we give up on, because they are stubborn, because they refuse to confirm and they don't listen. they want to do their own shit, take their time figuring the rights from wrongs and in the process discover themselves. Like i always said, Dev.D is the story of self realization, self discovery , self destruction
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