Anurag Kashyap’s career hit the next level after the release of his two-part Gangs of Wasseypur films, which have gone on to become cult classics. In a recent conversation at the Marrakech Film Festival, the director recalled that he wrote the script by hand during a trip to Madrid, but misplaced it on his way back to India. He shared that he had to wait at the airport for five days because the airline lost the bag which contained his script.
Anurag recalled that he told writer Zeishan Quadri to write the story of a film like a novella, since he did not have much experience writing film scripts. When Zeishan wrote a 150-page novella, Anurag decided he wanted to include all of it in the film. “I was travelling as a spouse with my ex-wife, who is an actor, because she got one extra ticket. I traveled to Madrid and I was living in a hotel which was… that whole area was very colourful, and I just started writing it there and I lost the script. I lost the script in the plane, the plane lost my script,” he recalled.
Anurag has previously shared that he was traveling with Kalki Koechlin to Spain when she was shooting for Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. He continued, “I hand write. So my script was in the bag and they lost my bag so I had to wait five days at the airport because I had to go back and show the script to the producer.”
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The Black Friday director said that after the film’s release and success, ‘every known gangster’ in the country approached him to make a film on their life. “After this film released, every single gangster in the country, in every single city and state, reached out to me saying ‘tell my story’. That’s how influenced they are. All the people, everybody wants their story to be told and everybody wants to be in it,” he shared.
Anurag said that even gangsters want to see themselves as heroes. “India is obsessed with mainstream films and they love that larger than life hero persona and everybody wants to be that,” he said. In the same interview, he recalled the story behind making Black Friday, and said that after the film was banned on the eve of its release, he smuggled a print out of the country because he was afraid the government might burn it.
Gangs of Wasseypur released in two parts in 2012.
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