India - Alone in the dark

Indian writer-director Anurag Kashyap prefers the dark and dysfunctional to the frothy effervescence of Bollywood. “I try to show an India not seen before in a Bollywood film, its underbelly. The story should be rooted in India because that’s where I’m from,” he says.

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