4 min readMumbaiFeb 18, 2026 12:39 PM IST Anurag Kashyap’s next release, Kennedy, starring Rahul Roy and Sunny Leone, is finally coming out this Friday on ZEE5. The film has been doing the rounds for two years now, and was written by Kashyap overnight back in 2023. That happened after two to three years of personal and professional setbacks, starting with the shelving of his ambitious adaptation of Suketu Mehta’s 2004 book Maximum City by Netflix India. “I was only grieving over Maximum City. I was frustrated over Maximum City because the investment in that was so much. Because I’d been attached with Maximum City since 2009, when Danny Boyle was producing it. Slumdog Millionaire writer was writing it, and he wanted me to direct it at that time,” revealed Kashyap in a new interview. After the global crossover success of the Oscar-winning 2009 British film Slumdog Millionaire set in India, director Danny Boyle decided to adapt another Indian book, Maximum City, with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, but it didn’t work out. Kashyap told The Hollywood …