When Vicky Kaushal revealed his first time in front of the camera was an ‘item number’ in an international project: ‘Anurag Kashyap called me…’

He said, “My first on-camera appearance was in a Michael Winterbottom film. Anurag called me one day and asked, ‘Listen, you want to do an item number?’ I hesitated, but he said it would be with Huma Qureshi, and it would be great. I agreed, and I was confident about dancing until I got on set and saw hundreds of people in front of me, a camera in my face, and Ganesh Acharya looking on. I was overwhelmed.”

He continued, “I got through the song, but then I saw Ganesh Acharya walking over to me. He said, ‘Kid, you danced well, now dance with your face’. I realised I was concentrating so hard that the stress was showing on my face.”

Anurag played a supporting role in Trishna, which featured Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed in lead roles. He had worked with Vicky on the Gangs of Wasseypur movies, when Vicky was an assistant. The actor was last seen in the romantic drama Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, and will next be seen in The Great Indian Family.