Anurag Kashyap says he stayed in cheapest room during Gangs of Wasseypur after some actors demanded bigger rooms: ‘They were embarrassed’

“In Gangs of Wasseypur there was one known actor and other unknown actors. Some people said they wanted a bigger hotel room, so I said okay fine, and stayed in the smallest and the cheapest room. So, suddenly that equalised everything and people were embarrassed to ask for more things, because my cameramen and I were living in the cheapest rooms, which literally was big enough to only have the bed. So, people stopped asking for more,” the filmmaker said at the Marrakech Film Festival.

Kashyap revealed that it wasn’t just in the production but also the edit table, when there was a fight to claim higher billing in the credits of the film as it was a huge multi-starrer.

The poster of Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur.

“Because the film had a big cast, everyone was fighting about whose name would come on top. I put my name in the bottom at the end of the film and said you guys decide. When I did that, everyone said okay, put our names at the end. That’s my way of problem solving– I want to just make the film,” he added.

The filmmaker recently shot his untitled next starring Bobby Deol and is currently awaiting the release of his next theatrical Kennedy, starring Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone.