Vicky Kaushal is currently experiencing a great phase in his career. His last movie, “Sam Bahadur” was a superhit, and “Dunki” was also a blockbuster. His recent movie “Bad Newz” released last week, and despite getting mixed reviews, it is marching towards 100 Crores worldwide. This would make it a hattrick of 100 crore for Vicky Kaushal.
In a recent promotional video for “Bad Newz,” Vicky was reacting to memes with Tanmay Bhat where he shared some untold stories from the shoot of Anurag Kashyap’s classic, “Gangs of Wasseypur.” He was an assistant director for the movie and was captured and jailed several times for filming real coal theft scenes.
What Anurag Kashyap Said ?
Anurag Kashyap said, “All the shots of coal stealing in the movie were captured from a distance using a tele camera, those were real things happening. We would wait there and watch them and shoot them. My second unit was Shlok Sharma and Vicky Kaushal. Vicky and Shlok always got arrested for taking shots, that were illegal.”
What Vicky Kaushal Said ?
Vicky Kaushal said, “The shots of smuggling we have shown in the film are all real, and It was our second unit’s work to shoot them by actually going to the location. There was an incident when we went to shoot sand smuggling. It was such a baffling thing, for the first time I saw that it happens so openly that it didn’t even look like smuggling. It looked like a proper business, because it is not like that two trucks come there and do it, there are more than 500 trucks deployed.
We were shooting secretly and then there was film camera at that time, there was no digital camera. So one guy named Bacchu Pandey saw us. Once he came there we were like surrounding by 500 people. One of our camera attendant who was over 50, called the crew that, the next place where the camera has to reach, it will reach late because we got badly stuck here. But Pandey thought he was calling some influential people, so he gave him a huge slap under the ear and threatened to break the camera. They were almost going to beat us but somehow we managed to escape.
It has happened many times that we were shooting outside a station. We had our camera fixed in an Omni van, and the shot was like Nawaz leaving Banaras station, getting into a cycle rickshaw, and the rickshaw will go. We did not plan small shots in theft, we needed all this in a single shot. Then We will go in the car, static to running camera. It will feel like a steady cam.
So according to the plan, Nawaz came to Banaras station. The camera moved from the station to Nawaz’s face, Nawaz face to the rickshaw. As the Rickshaw starts moving, the camera did too. In the shot suddenly we saw to hawaldars staring into the lens. They were like, ‘Who the hell are you ?’ I Immediately told the driver, ‘Brother, the police have seen us.’ Then the police would catch Shlok and take him to the police station. My duty was to save the camera and get it to the hotel. That’s how Gangs of Wasseypur was made.”