On a day when the media was invited to a screening of his directorial, the mystery drama `Dobaaraa`, Anurag Kashyap did what Aamir Khan is famous for doing — let everyone know that he`s still good friends with his ex-wives. `Dobaaraa` is awaiting its big-screen release on August 19. Kashyap posted a happy picture on Instagram of him with his two ex-wives: Aarti Bajaj, the film editor whom he was married to between 2003 and 2009, and Kalki Koechlin, the actress and author who made her Bollywood debut with his 2009 film, `Dev D`. He called them his “two pillars”, to which his daughter Aaliyah responded with one telling word: “Iconic”.
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Kashyap, as Aaliyah told the world, had a happy Sunday brunch with Aarti, who, incidentally, is the editor of `Dobaaraa` and has been associated with her ex-husband since the time he made his first film — the short thriller `Last Train to Mahakali` for Star Plus — in 1999. Among the many projects the two have worked on together, `Sacred Games` is the more notable recent collaboration.
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Kalki most recently worked with Kashyap on the second season of `Sacred Games`. They married in 2011, separated in 2013 and divorced in 2015. Thereafter, Kalki married her Israeli boyfriend, Guy Hershberg, and in 2020, they had a daughter they named Sappho. She has recounted her experience of being pregnant and then becoming a first-time parent in her delectably funny book, `The Elephant in the Womb`.
Another of Kashyap`s `Sacred Games` associates, Kubbra Sait, meanwhile, took to Twitter to give a glowing review to `Dobaaraa`, calling it “a mad mad maddddd film”. Kubbra wrote: “It`s crazy … and blew me away with a gripping storyline and the performances. A film that kept me on the edge of my seat till the last moment.”
Will that be how audiences will respond to `Dobaaraa` at a time when even Aamir Khan`s much-hyped `Laal Singh Chaddha` did not get crowds even on an extended holiday weekend? And will it end its main star Taapsee Pannu`s long dry spell at the box office? That, as they say, time will only tell.
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