Vicky Kaushal has revealed that he was almost beaten up by a mob when he was capturing footage of illegal sand mining to be used in director Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur.
Bollywood actor Vicky Kaushal, who is currently enjoying the success of his recent release Bad newsHe started his journey in the film industry as an assistant director to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on his iconic film. Wasseypur GangsIn a recent interaction, Vicky revealed that he was almost beaten up by a mob when he was shooting footage of illegal sand mining to be used in the film. He also shared another occasion when he came very close to being arrested in Varanasi for shooting at the city’s railway station.
In a conversation with comedian Tanmay Bhat on his YouTube channel, Vicky recalled the time he was almost beaten up by the sand mafia while working on Gangs of Wasseypur. He said, “The coal smuggling that was shown in the film was real. We filmed it. One incident happened when we went to capture footage of illegal sand mining. I was taken aback because that was the first time I realised that this happens so openly that it doesn’t feel like it’s real smuggling; it feels like it’s a well-run business because there weren’t just two trucks standing there, there were 500 trucks.”
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He added, “We were filming secretly and some people came. There were 500 people surrounding us. The cameraman was an older man, around 50 years old. That guy called the unit saying that the camera would not arrive on time because we were stuck in a situation here. Hearing him talking on the phone, the person there thought he was calling someone influential. That man slapped the cameraman, snatched the camera from him and threatened to break it. We were about to get beaten up, but somehow we escaped.”
In many previous interviews, Anurag had revealed that Gangs of Wasseypur was shot at real locations with hidden cameras.And sometimes this technique put the film crew in danger. Vicky recounted the same: “We had a camera in a van and we were shooting at the Benares station. The scene was where Nawazuddin Siddiqui came out of the station, sat in a rickshaw and drove away. Even though we were shooting with a hidden camera, we demanded a single and appropriate shot. While we were shooting that scene, we saw two policemen looking at the camera and pointing it, asking, ‘Who are you?’ At that point, I told the guy to drive the van and run out of the station because the police had spotted us. That’s how Gangs of Wasseypur was made.”
The two-part epic black comedy crime film received widespread critical acclaim upon its release and was a commercial success at the box office. The films also gained a large cult following over the years.
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First uploaded on: 21-07-2024 at 17:30 IST
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