Nawazuddin Siddiqui reveals the ‘permission’ scene in Gangs of Wasseypur was inspired from his life: ‘I’d taken a girl to the park’

He then revealed how the “permission leni chaahiye thi na?” scene with Huma was actually inspired from his life. He said, “So, on one such day, Anurag remembered a story I’d narrated during the workshops. So, he said, ‘Let’s do it…’ He asked me to sit near a lake, so I sat there and he made Huma Qureshi also sit there, and we did the whole scene in a single take.”

The scene was inspired by a real-life incident from Nawazuddin’s life. He said, “I had a girlfriend, I asked her if we could go to a park, looked around and it was quite empty, so I put my hand on hers. She asked me, ‘Yeh kya hai (what is this)?’ I said, ‘Kuch nahi, haath hai (nothing, it’s my hand)’. She said that it is illegal. As soon as she used the word ‘illegal’, all I could think about is police and court cases, and felt that I had committed a huge mistake.”

“Then I asked her, ‘Illegal matlab?’ So, she said, ‘If you wanted to put your hand on mine toh permission leni chaahiye thi na (You should have taken permission)’, and I told her ‘baat toh sahi hai’, and she said, ‘Tomorrow, you will feel like you can touch me anywhere. So, I told her that’s not what I had in mind. Then, she explained to me how, when you visit someone’s house, you knock on their door, you don’t just barge in,” Nawazuddin concluded.

This particular scene from the film is still admired by the film’s fans.