After Anurag Kashyap, along with Aparna Sen, Adoor Gopalkrishnan, Shubha Mudgal, Shyam Benegal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam, and 41 others wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against "religious identity-based hate crimes," a number of them are at the receiving end of trolls and criticism from BJP supporters.

Recently, Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap received a death threat via Twitter from one of them and he did not remain quiet. Anurag brought it to the attention of the Mumbai police by quoting the tweet and tagging them. The police immediately responded, "The cyber police station has been sent the account details. Request you to file a police complaint at your nearest police station for legal action to be initiated." The original tweet was later deleted by the user.

After the BJP won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a man had threatened to rape Anurag Kashyap's daughter in case he failed to stop criticizing Modi. The actor had filed a police complaint against that person as well.

The cyber police station has been sent the account details. Request you to file a police complaint at the your nearest police station for legal action to be initiated.

— Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) July 25, 2019