Anurag Kashyap has had a love-hate relationship with the Indian media for the longest time. While the media has often patted the director's back for his content-driven cinema, the paparazzi has been equally harsh about his personal life, controversies with contemporaries and criticism for his recent dud, Bombay Velvet. However, it's payback time it seems. Kashyap found a really innovative way to troll the Indian media by posting this on his Instagram account: For ease of perusal, here's how Anurag Kashyap described the photograph:

After seeing the knee-jerk reaction of the media, Anurag finally revealed his ulterior motive behind the whole story:

one Instagram picture of prosthetics test for the eye, with a random line, becomes news without crosschecking. point proven, won the bet

— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) August 25, 2015