Anurag Kashyap Reacts To Gulaal Actor Savi Sidhu Working As Security Guard, Says “I Respect Him”

The heartbreaking story of Gulaal actor Savi Sidhu struggling to support himself has been doing rounds on the internet lately. The actor, who was seen playing pivotal parts in movies like Patiala House, Black Friday among others have taken up a job of a security guard to make ends meet as his acting assignments could hardly help him fetch bread and butter.

He works 12 hours a day in a housing society and to watch a film in cinema hall has become a far dream for him owing to his deteriorating financial conditions, the actor said in a recent interview.

The viral story of Sidhu has caught the attention of Anurag Kashyap who has collaborated with the actor in films like Black Friday and Gulaal. People also bashed Kashyap for ignoring the actor and held him responsible for his worsening health and financial conditions.

There are so many actors out there who don’t have work. I respect Savi Siddhu as an actor and have cast him thrice when he earned the role. I respect him that he chose to live his life with dignity and picked a job unlike so many entitled out of work actors who have either

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

2… become alcoholics or wasted themselves away. Nawaz used to be a watchman, I used to be a waiter, I met one actor who sells bhelpuri on streets, I know and actor from Black Friday who drives a rickshaw, the lead from Salaam Bombay used to do the same ..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

Perhaps, frustrated out of all the baseless allegations, Anurag took to Twitter to express his thoughts on Sidhu’s story. In a series of tweets, he lauded the actor for choosing to live his life with dignity by taking up a respected job, rather than giving up on hardships.

3. I have seen the great Uday Chandra who did “Hum Paanch” and “Khel Khiladi Ka” in my early days walking the street. This is also true for many people in all walks of life. This could also be me or anyone else in the future. To give an actor a role out of sympathy is insulting .

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

The art and the artist. Savi will have to help himself. Only thing one can do is get the casting directors to audition him for him to earn the role and for that he will have to walk to that casting directors office like million others. He has made a conscious choice and ..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

One should be proud of him that he did not allow the vanity of the artist to destroy him , and he actually does a job . I have writers that I have worked with who are always borrowing money, I have seen filmmaker’s I have admired borrow money from me for a meal..

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

He put forth examples of actors who couldn’t find work in the industry and chose a supplementary profession. Anurag said that everyone should be proud of Savi that he did not let the vanity of an artist destroy him.

“To give an actor a role out of sympathy is insulting”, said the director. “He will have to help himself”, he said.

To be a watchman is a job, I don’t see it as a small job or big. At least he is not begging . And I genuinely believe that charity does not make art or an artist. There are millions of stories like Savi Siddhu’s.

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

You want to help artists like him then you need to start watching their art by paying for it, by actually be a paying audience. Tweeting the story to me won’t help. I have worked with new comers all my life and I move on to the next new talent I can find .

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

We all make conscious choices. Go to cinemas and buy tickets for films that has unknown amazing talent like Savi Siddhu to make sure that they continue to be what they are best at, to be the artist they want to be. That’s all I had to say . Thank you

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 19, 2019

Is it appropriate to blame a director for any actor’s financial conditions? In an uncertain profession like that of an artist, you gotta work pretty hard with all the luck in your favor to earn yourself a part in a movie, isn’t it? What’s your take on the entire scenario?