Mumbai:
Anurag Kashyap, who chose directorTigmanshu Dhulia to play the main villain in his Gangs ofWasseypur, says he always knew that there was a great actorhiding behind the filmmaker.
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Kashyap did a cameo in Dhulia's Shagird and when hestarted working on Wasseypur, a revenge drama set in theworld of coal mafia, he wanted his director friend to returnthe favour.
But Dhulia is not doing a cameo. Kashyap says he has thelongest role in the film, which has some 300 characters and isdivided into two parts.
"Tishu has always been a brilliant actor. The world didnot know it but I knew it. All I had to do was to manipulatehim for this film," Kashyap said.
Not many know that Tigmanshu initially wanted to be anactor and trained for the same in National School of Drama(NSD) but the Paan Singh Tomar director decided that actingwas not his cup of tea after a terrible performance in a play.
Anurag says Dhulia has done great in Wasseypur and itis only the beginning of his acting career.
"He does not want to do acting, he wants to make films.But I don't think he will be able to stay away from acting fortoo long because he is so good at it," Kashyap said.
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Also read: Anurag Kashyap wasn't the first choice to direct Gangs Of Wasseypur
Kashyap did a cameo in Dhulia's Shagird and when hestarted working on Wasseypur, a revenge drama set in theworld of coal mafia, he wanted his director friend to returnthe favour.
But Dhulia is not doing a cameo. Kashyap says he has thelongest role in the film, which has some 300 characters and isdivided into two parts.
"Tishu has always been a brilliant actor. The world didnot know it but I knew it. All I had to do was to manipulatehim for this film," Kashyap said.
Not many know that Tigmanshu initially wanted to be anactor and trained for the same in National School of Drama(NSD) but the Paan Singh Tomar director decided that actingwas not his cup of tea after a terrible performance in a play.
Anurag says Dhulia has done great in Wasseypur and itis only the beginning of his acting career.
"He does not want to do acting, he wants to make films.But I don't think he will be able to stay away from acting fortoo long because he is so good at it," Kashyap said.
Also read: Gangs of Wasseypur male dominant, but with strong women, says Huma Qureshi
