Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, in a new interview, spoke about escalating entourage costs and the demands of movie stars once again. Without taking names, he revealed that an actor has a chef who cooks “healthy” meals for them and charges Rs 2 lakh per day. Talking to Janice Sequeira, Anurag said, “Somebody has a chef who charges Rs 2 lakh per day to make this strange healthy food. Jo dekh ke lagta tha ye khana hai? Yeh to bird feed hai (I wonder, ‘Is this food or birdfeed’)?” Indicating with his hands how small the portions this chef prepares are, he added, “Itna chhota sa aata tha (The portion size is too small).”
Anurag further shared that the actor would do so because they had a “health problem” and would had specific dietary requirements. He said, “Main sirf yahi khata hoon. Mere itni allergies hain (I only eat this. I have a lot of allergies).”
This is not the first time that Anurag has clapped back at actors’ whimsical demands which result in rising budgets and entourage costs. In an earlier interview, he had spoken about a star having a special hamburger driven in for them from a city hours away from the shooting location. The Indian Express has reported extensively on rising entourage costs in the film industry.
Talking about how a film’s budget is spent on “paraphernalia,” Anurag Kashyap told Humans of Cinema recently, “They are not spending the money on the film. People need to come back to this whole reality check. One thing people need to understand is that when we make a film, we’re working, we’re creating something. It’s not a holiday, it’s not a picnic. A lot of money that is spent doesn’t go into making the film. It goes into the paraphernalia; it goes into the entourage. You’re shooting in the middle of a jungle, but one car will be sent to the city three hours away specifically to get you that five-star burger you want. You don’t get into the process of it.”
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