“Bahut faltu kharcha aa gaya hai (There is a lot of unnecessary expenditure),” said filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, while addressing the exponential rise in entourage costs of actors and how filmmaking has become significantly more expensive in recent times. In a recent interaction, the filmmaker also recalled an incident when a big star’s multiple layers of management prevented him from communicating directly with the actor — a situation that ultimately made him quit the project. Speaking on the YouTube channel Game Changers, Anurag explained how costs have spiralled out of control due to the growing entourage culture. “Make-up is a department in a film, but now every individual actor has their own make-up artist,” he said. Recalling the modest scale of his earlier films, the Gangs of Wasseypur director mentioned, “My film Nishaanchi had one make-up artist with two assistants, and they did the make-up for the whole team.” He then pointed out how the scenario has changed drastically today. “But in other films, every actor has their individual make-up artist,” he said, adding that this …