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Anurag Kashyap Exposes Fake Casting Of ‘Sacred Games 3’, Warns Lodging FIR

By Nitesh Prataap

January 17, 2022

A fake post regarding the casting of ‘Sacred Games 3’ is doing the rounds on social media platforms. The post is being made in the name of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, one of the directors of the infamous web series.

The viral post by one casting director, calls for females who do not mind doing bold scenes to audition for the upcoming installation of Sacred Games. However, when this matter reached Anurag Kashyap, he warned the fake casting director of taking legal action against him. He cleared up that there is “no season 3 of Sacred Games happening.” He said he will register an FIR against the person who is claiming to be the casting director of the web series.

 

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Anurag Kashyap reportedly dismissed the post and wrote, “This man rajbeer_casting is a scamster. I request you to report this. There is no season of my series Sacred Games coming out. I am immediately registering an FIR against it.” He also appealed to the people to be careful with this. He has also shared this post on his Insta story.

Sacred Games has garnered a lot of appreciation from people right after its release. So far, two seasons have been made. Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Girish Kulkarni, Neeraj Kabi and Jeetendra Joshi were seen playing the lead roles in this web series. Other artists including Rajshree Deshpande, Karan Wahi, Sukhmani Sadana, Aamir Bashir, Jatin Sarna, Elnaaz Norouzi, Pankaj Tripathi, Amey Wagh, Kubra Sait, Surveen Chawla, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey and Amrita Subhash also worked in this web series. It is a crime thriller, directed by Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Neeraj Ghaywan. It was released on Netflix in July 2018. Its first season had eight episodes and its second season was released in August 2019.

Recently Anurag has announced a new project with Kriti Sanon and producer- actor Nikhil Dwivedi. The director had shared a black and white picture of him working on a script in his office on Instagram. Sharing this, he wrote, “Another script.. Another film..Nikhil Dwivedi and Kriti Sanon is starting soon..”