Anurag: Studio wanted Nawaz replaced with a bigger star in GoW

Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur has gone down in history as one of Hindi cinema’s most defining cult films, but the journey to get it made was anything but smooth. The filmmaker recently revealed that the production house originally backing the project, UTV, dropped out just three days before the shoot began — all because they didn’t believe Nawazuddin Siddiqui could pull off the lead role of Faizal Khan.

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