Anubhav Sinha breaks on the failure of Bheed, Anek: It breaks your heart, you lose confidence

Anubhav Sinha is riding high on the success of IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, however this triumph has come after a series of flops. The failure of Bheed and Anek affected the filmmaker and eanrly discouraged him from making more movies.

Speaking to indianexpress, the filmmaker expressed that such failures can be discouraging. He stated, "It breaks your heart, it breaks your backbone. You lose confidence. You almost get encouraged not to make a film again. But then something else convinces you enough to do it again and then you look back and say, ‘No, it’s not a big deal, it’s okay.'”

Reflecting on the flors, Anubhav Sinha called it a strange time and added, "I had three back-to-back hits and then I had two films that didn’t work and those were also strange times and I was making a dark film (Bheed) on Corona tragedy, and in black-and-white, it didn’t work. It’s okay. As long as you are not ashamed of your film, as long as people who participated with you in that film are not ashamed, you take it in your stride." He concluded stating that when one has gone past a decade in history of filmmaking, you 'don’t take yourself that seriously'. The Thappad director also noted that if one makes ten films and five of them turn out to be successful, it would be considered quite an accomplishment.

IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, based on real events, has struck a chord with the audience. This OTT series, spanning six episodes, stars Vijay Varma, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Dia Mirza and Arvind Swamy among others.