Manoj Bajpayee reveals Anurag Kashyap ended their conflict by offering him Gangs of Wasseypur’s Sardar Khan: ‘I hadn’t spoken to him for years’

Manoj said, “I got a call around 10:30 pm, that was the time I was about to retire for the day. It was a call from Anurag Kashyap, who I had not spoken to for many years. We had some conflict issues which had not been sorted out, but that one call kind of demolished all the issues.”

The actor then proceeded to reveal how he immediately said yes to the script post hearing Anurag’s narration.

“(Over the phone), Anurag said he has something to offer to me and would I like to read it. So he sent me his car, I went to his office, he read out the script to me. And I said, ‘Please order a red wine bottle.’ He ordered two bottles instead, we toasted and that is how Sardar Khan (his character from Gangs of Wasseypur) happened,” the actor added with a smile.

The 2012 release featured a plethora of actors, who are now familiar faces in the industry, including names such as Rajkummar Rao, Vineet Kumar Singh, Pankaj Mishra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi as well as Jaideep Ahlawat. Meanwhile, Manoj was last seen in the Disney Plus Hotstar movie Gulmohar, co-starring Sharmila Tagore and Simran.