Vicky Kaushal 'Somehow Escaped' Assault At The Hands Of Mafia During Gangs Of Wasseypur Shoot

Vicky Kaushal is basking in the success of his latest outing Bad Newz. However, the actor who is a household name now, started his career as an assistant director in the movie Gangs Of Wasseypur. In a new interview, the actor opened up about an incident that took place on the film set when they got into trouble for filming illegal mining. 

Vicky Kaushal talks about running into trouble while shooting Gangs Of Wasseypur 

Vicky Kaushal recently appeared in the podcast hosted by Tanmay Bhatt on his YouTube channel. The actor narrated the story of his run-in with the sand mafia members. He revealed that the scenes showing the movie were not fictional and were shot in real locations. 

The actor shared, “The coal smuggling that was shown in the film was real. We shot it. One incident happened when we went to capture visuals of illegal sand mining. I was baffled because that was the first time I realised that this happens so openly that you wouldn’t feel that this is actual smuggling going on; you would feel that it is a properly run business because there weren’t just two trucks standing there, there were 500 trucks." 

‘We both were about to get beaten up’, recalls Vicky Kaushal 

In the same conversation, Vicky Kaushal shared that they were shooting near the railway station in Varanasi when they had a run-in with the police. He recalled that while they were filming the scenes nearly 500 men surrounded them. He recalled almost getting beaten up by the local goons. 

He said, “The camera attendant was an old man, some 50 plus. That guy called the unit saying that the camera wouldn’t come on time because we were caught up in a situation here. Hearing him talk over the phone, the person there thought that he was calling somebody influential. That man slapped the cameraman, snatched the camera from him, and threatened us that they would break the camera. We both were about to get beaten up, but we somehow escaped.” Gangs of Wasseypur was released in theatres in 2012 and  Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathi, Richa Chadda, Jaideep Ahlawat, Huma Qureshi and Tigmanshu Dhulia.