Anurag Kashyap Surname and Cast: Bollywood’s famous film maker Anurag Kashyap is known for his opinion. Because of this, they often get caught in controversies. At present, Anurag Kashyap is once again in controversies. Actually, he was angry with the thorns made by CBFAC on Anant Mahadevan’s upcoming film Phule. After this, he posted objectionable comments on the Brahmin community by posting on social media. Since then, Anurag Kashyap has been criticized a lot. A police complaint has also been lodged against him in many places. In the midst of all this, let us know here from which caste Anurag Kashyap himself comes from? And why did they remove their surname?

Anurag Kashyap is from which caste?
Anurag Kashyap belongs to a Kayastha family. He was born on 10 September 1972 in Gorakhpur city of UP. His father’s name was Prakash Singh and he was working as Chief Engineer in UP Power Corporation Limited. Film maker Anurag had talked about removing “Singh” by his name at the Jaipur Literature Festival in the year 2018, but he did not say anything clear about his caste.

Why did Anurag Kashyap remove his surname?
Anurag Kashyap had revealed the reason for removing his surname at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He had said that his father had removed his surname Singh during the Emergency because at that time there were a lot of difficulties due to applying a lion behind the name and his father had removed Singh due to fear and kept the Kashyap surname. Anurag further said that only his father can tell the real reason for this. Anurag also revealed during this time that till 1978 his real name was Rinku Singh.

What did Anurag Kashyap comment on the Brahmin community?
Anurag Kashyap commented about the controversy related to the Hindi film Phule that “he would urinate on Brahmins”. After this controversial statement, Anurag Kashyap is facing strong criticism. However, he has apologized on social media. He wrote on Instagram, “This is my apology, not for my post but for the one line that was taken out of the context and who is creating hatred. No work or speech is deserved that your daughter, family, friend and colleague sanskars (tradition) have to threaten to rape and die.”

Case filed against Anurag Kashyap in many places
A police complaint has also been lodged against Anurag Kashyap’s indecent remarks on the Brahmin community. Advocate Ashish Rai had filed a complaint against Anurag in Mumbai and then on April 19, Anoop Shukla lodged a complaint against the film maker in Indore. Now the people of Brahmin society in Jaipur have lodged an FIR in the police against Kashyap.

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