Anurag Kashyap's reaction to watching Abhishek Banerjee in Stolen: 'He played the perfect a***e'
Abhishek Banerjee had started his career as an assistant with Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D, and now, they worked together in Stolen
Last Updated: 12.50 PM, Jun 09, 2025
Days after Abhishek Banerjee's Stolen came out on OTT and received immense love, Anurag Kashyap (Haddi) recalled his own reaction on seeing the actor on sets. For the uninitiated, Banerjee (Helmet) started working in the industry with Kashyap's film, Dev D. However, back then, he was just an assistant director. Thus, he went unnoticed by Kashyap. Nonetheless, the reactions are out now and here's what they were like...
Anurag Kashyap recalls Abhishek Banerjee's journey from Dev D to Stolen
"I've known Abhishek since 2007-2008. I never took him seriously as an actor. I felt Amar Kaushik is a more serious actor. For me, Abhishek was a casting director than an actor," Kashyap recalled in a video released by Prime Video, thus making Abhishek laugh. The actor recalled how he started his career with Kashyap's film Dev D (featuring Abhay Deol) itself. Kashyap continued that he knew Abhishek's funny bone and comic timing. "Then he totally blew me with playing Hathoda Tyagi," the filmmaker confessed. He then wondered what would Abhishek do next. Speaking of Stolen, when they started working on the movie together, Anurag was unabashed when he recalled, "The railway station scene starts, and it's the first time I see him play the perfect a***e." The filmmaker recalled how he had a golden chicken sitting in this garden and never noticed him. He remembered asking himself what is the range of Banerjee, since he saw the funny bone, Hathoda Tyagi and now play a bad brother to his sweet brother.
Abhishek Banerjee on Stolen
Abhishek Banerjee, also seen in John Abraham's Vedaa, recalls getting a lot of psycho killer parts immediately after Paatal Lok. He also shared how Kashyap had warned him of how such offers would come his way. However, Banerjee was determined to have fun the way he did while working on the indie film Ajji. Turns out, Abhishek Banerjee was the only actor who did not want the makers to narrate the script and replied to them within five days. That is how he came on-board.