Explosive! Anurag Kashyap once claimed that ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ was removed from theatres to make way for ‘Ek Tha Tiger

MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap is someone who creates a unique cinema keeping in the mind the taste of his target audience. However, he had his fair share of struggles before Satya changed his life. Later he made a lot of praiseworthy films and one of them was Gangs of Wasseypur. Although the film was a box office success, but, in one of the interviews, Anurag had claimed that the film was removed from theatres to make way for Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger.

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Anurag Kashyap revealed how films in India get thrown away because a big superstar wants to release their film in the same time period. Sharing the example, the filmmaker revealed when Gangs of Wasseypur was sacked from theatres because of Salman Khan’s Ek Tha Tiger.

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“For our film, the word of mouth builds up; one big massive superstar film comes out and is thrown out of the theatre. I have had Gangs Of Wasseypur thrown out of the theatres while it was doing very well because Ek Tha Tiger had to come out. So You Know, that’s what we are dealing with,” he concluded.

GoW is a two-part crime centred on the coal mafia of Dhanbad featuring Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathi, Richa Chadda, Huma Qureshi and Tigmanshu Dhulia in the major roles.

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