{"id":2002490,"date":"2025-09-06T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2002490"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:11:15","slug":"anurag-kashyaps-toronto-prison-drama-monkey-in-a-cage-tackles-metoo-fallout-bobby-deol-totally-put-his-whole-vulnerable-self-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/anurag-kashyaps-toronto-prison-drama-monkey-in-a-cage-tackles-metoo-fallout-bobby-deol-totally-put-his-whole-vulnerable-self-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Anurag Kashyap\u2019s Toronto Prison Drama \u2018Monkey in a Cage\u2019 Tackles #MeToo Fallout: Bobby Deol \u2018Totally Put His Whole Vulnerable Self Out There\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director Anurag Kashyap<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMonkey in a Cage<\/a>\u201d (titled \u201cBandar<\/a>\u201d in Hindi) makes its world premiere in the Toronto Film Festival\u2019s Special Presentations program, marking another bold entry from the acclaimed filmmaker known for pushing boundaries in Indian cinema.<\/p>\n

The prison drama, starring Bobby Deol<\/a>, Sanya Malhotra<\/a>, Sapna Pabbi<\/a> and Saba Azad<\/a>, explores the complex aftermath of #MeToo allegations in digital-age India through the story of Samar<\/a>, an aging television star whose celebrity is waning. When his ex-girlfriend Gayatri<\/a> accuses him of rape after he blocks all contact with her, Samar faces arrest and encounters a corrupt legal system determined to keep him behind bars.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea came from a true story, but we obviously had to navigate very thin lines,\u201d Kashyap<\/a> tells Variety. \u201cYou don\u2019t know who\u2019s right, who\u2019s wrong. There was rampant misuse of new laws, cases of one woman filing eight different cases…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Anurag Kashyap\u2019s \u201cMonkey in a Cage\u201d (titled \u201cBandar\u201d in Hindi) makes its world premiere in the Toronto Film Festival\u2019s Special Presentations program, marking another bold entry from the acclaimed filmmaker known for pushing boundaries in Indian cinema. The prison drama, starring Bobby Deol, Sanya Malhotra, Sapna Pabbi and Saba Azad, explores the complex aftermath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2002490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anurag-Kashyaps-Toronto-Prison-Drama-\u2018Monkey-in-a-Cage-Tackles.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}