Anushka Sharma steps down from Clean Slate Filmz, hands reins to brother

Bollywood actor-producer Anushka Sharma on Saturday announced that she was stepping down from Clean Slate Filmz, a film production company that she had co-founded with her brother Karnesh Sharma nearly a decade back in 2013.

Announcing the move, the 33-year-old posted a lengthy statement on her Instagram account, saying, “When I started Clean Slate Filmz with my brother Karnesh Ssharma, we were novices when it came to production but we had a fire in our belly and we wanted to try and set the agenda of entertainment in India through clutter-breaking content. Today, when I look back at our journey so far, I’m deeply proud of what we have created and the disruption that we have managed to achieve.”

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“While CSF started with my vision to change the narrative of what commercial projects should be like, I have to credit Karnesh who has excelled in shaping what CSF has become today,” she added in the statement, heaping praise on her brother.

“Being a new mother who has chosen to be an actor by profession, I have to balance my life in an entirely new fashion like never before. So, I have decided that whatever time I have at hand, I will dedicate it to my first love, acting! Therefore, I have decided to step away from CSF, confident that the most able person, Karnesh, is taking forward the vision with which it was created in the first place,” Sharma further said in the statement.

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“I will continue to be the biggest cheerleader for Karnesh and CSF and hope to be a part of many clutter-breaking projects that would be produced by CSF. I can’t wait to see how he grows the company from strength to strength with the stellar line up of projects that he has handpicked, nurtured and given life to,” the 33-year-old concluded, pledging her support to the film production house she had helped co-found.

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Since inception, Clean Slate Filmz has produced popular and critically acclaimed movies and web series such as ‘Paatal Lok’, ‘NH10’, ‘Phillauri’, ‘Pari’, and ‘Bulbbul‘.

The production house’s upcoming projects include drama series called ‘Mai’, Jhulan Goswami biopic ‘Chakda Express‘ (starring Anushka Sharma herself), and a movie called ‘Qala‘ that will mark the debut of Babil Khan, the son of the late Irrfan Khan.