Anurag on friendships in Bollywood and finding 'someone to count on' in Taapsee

Long before her Bollywood debut, when Taapsee Pannu danced in a college competition which Anurag Kashyap judged, she was just "a girl in the corner."
"I've found a great friend in her and I don't say that about a lot of people."
"What she says is what she means. I don't have to think twice making fun of her. I just am and she just is. We are extremely comfortable."
"We identify with each other as being from the outside world who have their own minds, we agree to disagree and we have faced similar struggles."
"She thinks she can make me feel much lighter, change my perception of being a dark filmmaker and I also indulge her. We have these fights and battles but in her, I've found a friend who I can count on."

When asked if that's a rarity in the industry, Anurag says, "It isn't rare. Everyone has their set of friends here. It isn't that I didn't have friends before Taapsee, but yes, we both have hit it off really well."

"I heard the idea from Taapsee when she was doing 'Manmarziyaan'. I thought it's a great idea but how will someone pull it off. Then I saw the film and it impacted me. I can't classify it. I don't know if it's a horror, a thriller as several genres cross over in this."
"This is something else. 'Kaun' was still character driven. This film is driven by the inexplicable, which you only understand in the middle of it. It plays out with utmost satisfaction."