The Black Friday director got into another pitched battle on Twitter for taking on Prime Minister Modi for his silence on the Dangal girl, Zaira Wasim's controversy.
Anurag Kashyap battles trolls on Twitter, again
Mumbai - 17 Jan 2017 12:24 IST
Updated : 12:25 IST


Shriram Iyengar
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and Twitter do not go well together. The director, who has quickly become the enfant terrible of the social media platform, got into another pitch battle with trolls over his comments, or lack of them, on the Zaira Wasim controversy. Wasim was trolled and targeted on social media for meeting Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, in the context of the unrest in the Valley following the Uri attack in October last year.
Initially, embroiled in a conversation with the co-founder of opindia.com, Rahul Raj, Kashyap found himself the target of online bullying once again.
A few weeks ago, Kashyap had tweeted about Meryl Streep's courageous calling out of the Trump phenomenon by saying: "We in our film industry don't even need to give a speech like Meryl Streep if we just start standing with those who actually speak up."
We in our film industry don't even need to give a speech like Meryl Streep if we just start standing up with those who actually speak up.
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 9, 2017
Raj, who tweets under the alias @bhak_sala, quoted the tweet and egged Kashyap to speak out again for Zaira Wasim. Raj wrote
Dear Bollywood, you were simmering to show courage. A good opportunity for @aamir, @anuragkashyap72, @karanjohar and others to show that. https://t.co/aJAWE07Xqs
— Bhak Sala (@bhak_sala) January 16, 2017
Not one to take a challenge lightly, Kashyap dived into battle and began the first step of the troll avalanche.
@bhak_sala They,who force her to apologise are same as you, Mr. Rahul Raj , I condemn you as much as I condemn them..
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 16, 2017
Pretty soon, Twitter was on to the director. Tweets like these flooded his timeline.
@anuragkashyap72 what are you condemning rahul raj for? Revealing bollywood's dumbness
— Shobhit Todi (@shobhittodi) January 16, 2017
@mediacrooks @anuragkashyap72 #UdtaAnurag has spine only to condemn Modi:) @bhak_sala
— gab.ai/kamal (@Kamaalsharma) January 16, 2017
@anuragkashyap72 @bhak_sala
— Ravi (@Indiafirstt) January 16, 2017
This proves that once a Chutiya , always a Chutiya..
This did not deter Kashyap though. He continued to fight it out by giving it as good as he got.
@anuragkashyap72 @narendramodi @BhakSala but you are probably only good at movies. On twitter you are flop , sorry to say this sir
— Shamil (@shamil_shah) January 16, 2017
@shamil_shah @narendramodi @BhakSala bhai movies mein bhi flop hoon.. galatfahmi hai aapki
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 16, 2017
@ankit14794 @bhak_sala Radicals are Radicals, doesn't matter what religion they belong to.. Same purpose and same modus operandi
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 16, 2017
Stepping it up, the director even called on the Prime Minister on Twitter, to check 'his' followers.
The whole troll army is out.. @narendramodi sir.. Amazing people you follow.. Pride of the nation.. Did you conduct private classes for them
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 16, 2017
Literally today on the dining table, all the @narendramodi voters were sitting and discussing what a grave mistake they made @BhakSala
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 16, 2017
If the trolls thought that this would by any chance scare the director away, they had another thing coming.
My new year resolution.. The more the Bhakts troll me , i am going to troll the Boss..lets play Troll-Troll
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 17, 2017
In view of the growing calls for Shah Rukh Khan to speak out, and later Aamir Khan on the Wasim controversy, it is an irony that Twitter chooses to lambast the one man from the industry who does speak up quite frequently.