Anurag Kashyap, who is known for his dark and gritty style of cinema, is one the most acclaimed filmmakers of Bollywood at the moment. However, things weren't always so good for him and like many of us, he also had his fair share of struggles. In a recent media interaction, Anurag talked about the time when he was homeless in Mumbai and used to sleep on pavements.

Apparently, Anurag was homeless when came to Mumbai in 1993. He used to keep his stuff at Prithvi theatre and slept at pavements. He told Mashable India, "There was a garden in the middle of the Juhu circle back then; it used to be a roundabout without any signals. We used to sleep here, but sometimes they’d kick us out. Then we’d go to the Versova link road, where there was a big footpath. People used to sleep there in a line. But you had to pay Rs 6 to sleep there.”

Anurag also hit rock bottom when his directorial debut 'Paanch' was stalled and second film 'Black Friday' also ended up in trouble. He recalled, "“I locked myself in a room, and that’s when the drinking began. It was over. I used to drink heavily for a year-and-a-half. Aarti (Bajaj, ex-wife) kicked me out of the house. My daughter was only four years old then. That was a difficult phase. I was depressed. Paanch had stalled, Black Friday had stalled, Allwyn Kalicharan was shelved, another film that nobody knows about was shelved, I was kicked out of Tere Naam and Kaante… I was drinking and I was fighting all these battles, and I was unceremoniously thrown out of projects I had written and I was a part of. That was a very bad phase, and it accumulated into an anger, with the industry, with the system.”