Anurag Kashyap is a Star Screen Award-winning and Golden Leopard nominated Indian film director and writer. He first came into the limelight as a director with Black Friday, a controversial film about the 1993 Bombay blasts. The film was nominated for the Golden Leopard (Best Film) award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Anurag started off as the scriptwriter with Satya (1998), for which he won the Screen Award for Best Screenplay. Apart from that, he has also scripted the Academy Award-nominated Canadian film Water. Though a very talented filmmaker, Anurag is somehow always 'jinxed'. Either his projects are embroiled in controversies, like Black Friday, or they never seem to see the light of the day, like Paanch. Anurag's film with John Abraham, No Smoking (2007), bombed at the box office. However, within the industry Anurag has always been admired for his unconventional approach to Hindi films.The director's latest, Dev.D, is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay' novel Devdas. Anurag makes a special appearance in Zoya Akhtar's Luck By Chance, released on January 30, 2009.