Author Yashica Dutt reacts to Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Pseudo’ comment over “Made In Heaven Season 2”
Author Yashica Dutt reacts to Anurag Kashyap’s
‘Pseudo’ comment over
“Made In Heaven Season 2”
“Made In Heaven Season 2” was embroiled in controversy for various reasons. Now in a new twist, Author Yashica Dutt has reacted to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s ‘pseudo’ remark over the film.
Yashica Dutt, who’s been
solitarily calling out the team for its their ‘blatant’ use of her back-story in EP 5 of the show, sans giving her the due credits for it, posted a long post in response.
Taking to herInstagram shared a lengthy textual post with the caption that read, “Update:
In response to her gentle demand for acknowledgement on an episode that blatantly used her likeness, the makers of MIH put out a hostile statement calling it ‘misleading’. Was it also misleading when Alankrita Shrivastava, who is a writer and director of the show and co-signed that condescending statement, requested a meeting with her in New York on July 15, 2022 that lasted five hours?
Where she asked her everything on her life but refused to reveal anything on her intentions.
The distortion of this narrative is all on protecting the ‘progressive’ image of indie Bollywood even as it persists to steal from Dalit people’s lives, silencing them when they ask for their rightful credit. Even the ‘vanguards’ are complicit in this.
She has immense respect for Neeraj Ghaywan’s struggle to make his space within these savarna power structures.
But she never met him or told him her story. She had met Alankrita Shrivastava. Now the same savarna power structures are pitting us against each other while making Ghaywan be accountable in public for their blatant theft. I
She pins hopes that this moment is a lesson that our stories are not for taking without credit or permission. This theft of Dalit labor ends now. Jai Bhim!”
News Edit K.V.Raman
