Gangs of Wasseypur’s first cut was over seven hours long, Tigmanshu Dhulia improvised ‘tumse na ho payega’ line, reveals Anurag Kashyap

The filmmaker also shared that the second part of Gangs of Wasseypur was “mostly improvised”, something he believes doesn’t happen today since filmmakers are scared of improvisation. In his opinion, they just want to stick to a formula which has brought them success and good numbers.

Gangs of Wasseypur, starring Manoj Bajpayee and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, also became popular for its quirky dialogues, the most widely quoted one being “Tumse na no payega”. Kashyap said that the line wasn’t in the script, and was improvised by Tigmanshu Dhulia, who essayed the role of Ramadhir Singh.

Kashyap said, “It was not even me. Tigmanshu Dhulia improvised it. He was just so good and natural that we were like rolling with laughter. It was done there and then.” The filmmaker believes that his actors manage to bring the best out of themselves because he gives them a free pass to experiment. “I just say what not to do, I don’t tell them what to do. I let them go. The good scenes have come out of that only. Scripts should be just a map. That’s why I don’t share my scripts with actors,” Kashyap shared.

He added, “I do not give my script to actors because they memorise it so much. They also become very fixated. The dialogues and everything, they say it the same way. If the script stays with them for too long, they have rehearsed it so many times in front of the mirror, you just cannot alter them. I actually give them the wrong cues and the wrong things. I give three different instructions to three different actors. So, what comes out is very organic. You can’t write it.”

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