Mumbai: Basking in the glory of penning Anurag Kashyap's crime drama 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and sharing screen space in the movie, writer Zeishan Quadri is ready with three projects including two based on real life incidents. "I have almost three scripts that are ready. I am just giving final touches to them. Two of these projects are real life incidents. One is a crime-love story based in Bihar and another is a gangster story set in Meerut. The third one is a
fictional love story," Zeishan told PTI.
Director Anurag Kashyap's two part revenge drama 'Gangs of Wasseypur' marked Zeishan's debut as a writer and also as an actor where he played the role of 'Definit', a wily and street smart goon who imitates Salman Khan.
Based on the coal mafia in Dhanbad, the movie was about three generations of a family entangled in tentacles of crime, extortion and murder....
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05:10 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: Folk singer Sharda Sinha, who has lent her voice in Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur 2, says the experience of singing in the film was amazing. The 59-year-old has sung the famous Electric Piya for Gangs of Wasseypur 2 and she thinks that folk music gets a wider reach when it is part of films. "Films provide a bigger platform for folk music and in which ever films...
12:24 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Wasseypur (Jharkhand): The critically acclaimed Gangs of Wasseypur, a gritty celluloid saga of the coal mafia and blood thirsty vengeance, may have set the cash registers ringing, but residents of this town say the success comes at the cost of their integrity, respect and honour. Anurag Kashyap's directorial venture gives a distorted message about the Muslim-dominated area's social, cultural and economic life and only perpetuates stereotypes, say the outraged people...
01:43 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Mumbai: The audiences have given the thumbs up to Anurag Kashyap's 'Gangs of Wasseypur'. It has opened to full houses in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand and is also drawing crowds in multiplexes in the Metros, distributors say. Prashant Kumar Singh, owner of Puja Talkies in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, told IANS: "'Gangs of Wasseypur' has opened very well with 80 to 85 percent occupancy. Some of the shows were even houseful....
11:28 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: 'Gangs of Wasseypur' writer Zeishan Quadri had put a condition before director Anurag Kashyap that he would part with his story only if he gets to play a key role in the film that deals with the coal mafia. Anurag agreed on one condition: Quadri had to appear for auditions. Eventually, he got through the auditions and bagged the role of 'Definit', a wily and street smart goon...
02:42 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Mumbai: Director Anurag Kashyap seems wary of going to Wasseypur for the promotion of his film 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and says that he will pay a visit to the Jharkhand town only after the film's release. "We will go to Wasseypur after the film's release, after it is screened at the Ray Theatre there. People there don't yet know what's in the film, but after the screening all their doubts...
04:30 PM, Jun 18, 2012
