Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap answered some ‘awkward questions’ from his daughter Aaliyah Kashyap in a new Father’s Day special video. In a video shared by Aaliyah on her youtube channel Anurag can be seen answering questions about his views on his daughter’s boyfriend, premarital sex and lot more.
He was asked by a fan about what he thinks of Aaliyah’s boyfriend, Shane Gregoire. Answering the question Anurag said “I like Shane. I like your choice in friends and your choice in boys. Shane is very good. He is very spiritual, very calm, he has a lot of qualities that men of 40 don’t have, in terms of being there in difficult situations.” Aaliyah and Shane have been in a relationship for a year and are currently in Mumbai and staying with Anurag.
On being asked if he is okay with girls hanging out with their male friends, Anurag said, “I think it’s okay, everything is fine. I think a lot of these questions come from our parents’ reaction to kids. But I think parents need to understand that they come from an India that does not exist anymore. It’s in their heads and in small towns, still there, but we were much more repressed than our kids are. Our kids are much more expressive and they will communicate, and I think we need to stop imposing ourselves on them.”
When asked how he would react if Aaliyah calls him while drunk, Anurag said, “You have done that a lot. Every time, you have dialled me from a cupboard… You have sat inside a cupboard and talked to me. In the party, you have made me say hi to all your friends and talk to everyone, and you have made everyone say dialogues from Gangs of Wasseypur.” To which Aaliyah added, “I didn’t make everyone, they wanted to! But yeah, I have done that because he is quite fun to talk to when you are drunk.”
On being asked about his take on ‘sleepovers with boyfriends’ Anurag said “Once you are an adult, then you make your own life decisions. I don’t even probably have a say in the matter, except concern. I would just tell you to be safe and keep my phone on, if you want to call me.”
When Anurag was asked about his take on premarital sex, he said, “It’s a question that we asked in the 80s. I think now we should get beyond that question. That’s a question that we used to ask when we were in college and we used to moralise.” Aaliyah added, “But I don’t think it needs to be like that anymore. I think times have moved a lot.”
“No, we need to understand sexuality and sex and our own human body. We need to understand that first before we just jump into doing things out of peer pressure. Anything done out of peer pressure is not good. Anything done to look cool is not good. Anything done to belong to a certain group of people is not good. Do it because you want to do something, because you feel ready and you have someone. It has to be special,” Anurag added.