Lust Stories Directors On Their Biggest Pet Peeves On Set

From bad food to underprepared actors, filmmakers Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap, on what ticks them off at work
Lust Stories Directors On Their Biggest Pet Peeves On Set

Ahead of the release of Lust Stories on Netflix, we asked the four directors of the omnibus – Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap – about what annoys them most on a film set.

Karan Johar: When actors don't know their lines. It just bothers me to no end because I think that's the basic pre-requisite of performance. You can act all you want and do all your nuances, but you have to know your lines. I can't bear people who keep fumbling on dialogue. It really bothers me. Even if it's the biggest star in the country, I will curse him or her.

Dibakar Banerjee: Cell phones.

Zoya Akhtar: I work a lot with ensembles and I can't bear actors who are camera hogs. I don't like it when actors don't have the grace or the patience to allow their co-actor to take a scene, even if it is theirs. It annoys me, puts the co-actor in a negative space, and then you have to go in there and scold them!

Anurag Kashyap: Bad food. Baaki sab chalta hai. I rarely get sets so over the years that becomes your way of working. But khaana sahi hona chahiye. I'm talking about bad quality food that makes you fall sick.

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