Did you know Vicky Kaushal was nearly beaten by a mob while filming ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur? Know more here

Actor Vicky Kaushal, who began his career as an assistant director on Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, recently recalled some incidents from the shoot. In an interview with Tanmay Bhat for his YouTube channel, Vicky recalled a close encounter where he almost got beaten up by a sand mafia and their 500 goons while filming illegal sand mining.

‘The coal smuggling that was shown in the film was real. We shot it. One incident happened when we went to capture visuals of illegal sand mining. I was baffled because that was the first time I realised that this happens so openly that you wouldn’t feel that this is actual smuggling going on; you would feel that it is a properly run business because there weren’t just two trucks standing there, there were 500 trucks,’ recalled Vicky.

He said, ‘The camera attendant was an old man, some 50 plus. That guy called the unit saying that the camera wouldn’t come on time because we were caught up in a situation here. Hearing him talk over the phone, the person there thought that he was calling somebody influential. That man slapped the cameraman, snatched the camera from him, and threatened us that they would break the camera. We both were about to get beaten up, but we somehow escaped.’

About Vicky Kaushal’s career

Vicky made his acting debut with Neeraj Ghaywan's ‘Masaan’. He later featured in movies like ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’, ‘Raazi’, ‘Sanju’, ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’, ‘Sardar Udham’, and ‘Sam Bahadur’.

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