Anurag Kashyap & Richa Chadda Movies Together List — 3 Films

The shape of the work

Never on the same side of the camera — Anurag Kashyap director, Richa Chadda actor, across all 3 films. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Richa Chadda was a theatre actor with zero film experience when Anurag Kashyap cast her as Nagma in Gangs of Wasseypur. He saw her in a play and offered her the role on the spot — she didn't even audition.
• On the sets of Gangs of Wasseypur, Kashyap deliberately kept Richa in the dark about the full script. He wanted her reactions to feel raw and unplanned — so she only got her lines for each scene minutes before shooting.
• The success of Gangs of Wasseypur directly launched Richa Chadda as a mainstream name. Before that film, she was a nobody in Bollywood. After it, she became the go-to actress for layered, gritty roles — a trend that Kashyap's film kicked off.
• Richa Chadda has said that Anurag Kashyap is the only director she trusts to completely break her down and rebuild her as a character. She calls him her 'cinema guru' — and they still text each other about films they watch.
• "Anurag doesn't direct you. He creates a chaos around you and then films what happens." — Richa Chadda, in a 2018 interview about working with Kashyap on Daas Dev.