Anurag: Kennedy is dedicated to Sudhir Mishra

Anurag Kashyap

's

Kennedy

got a standing ovation from the two thousand people who attended the India premiere of the film at the

MAMI

Film Festival.
Filmmaker Amit Masurkar moderated a small session with Kashyap and said that the filmmaker started with Satya and with Kennedy, it has come a full circle for Mumbai-based films like Black Friday, Ugly, and Raman Raaghav.

He stated that Anurag Kashayp was pushing the envelope further and further.
Masurkar asked Anurag about the writing of Kennedy to which the filmmaker said, "You know this film is dedicated to

Sudhir Mishra

and the character of

Uday Shetty

played by Rahul Bhat; this character has stayed in my head for close to 20 years. He had hired me about 20 years ago to write a film that had Sanjay Dutt and Tejeshwi Kolhapure which we shot for one day and then the film didn't take off. He used to talk about this cop called Uday Shetty who actually existed in the 80s and we have actually not changed the name and that Uday Shetty stayed in my head and Uday Shetty haunted me for the longest time and I tried to sell the concept to many people to make a film on the character. How do you use the man who was a ghost in the system, who would kill people and was haunted by the guilt and would collect ring or watch of the person and is separated from the family? That character is real, then events that happened in the lockdown and it was a combination of anger and depression and frustration and some things that were reported in the papers. So this was the best time to take Uday Shetty from the 80s and put him in the lockdown and I was locked in the house and listening to Tchaikovsky and wrote non stop for two days with my whisky."
Producer Shariq Patel who was present at the premiere said, "We will take this movie to the theatres at the right time and we need our festival films to get support and cinephiles are the first brand ambassadors of this movie. We don't have a date as yet, if these films don't work in the theatres' flow of money stops."

Kashyap thanked Patel for the theatrical release of the film and said,"I was so dead inside I feel so alive."