Gangs of Wasseypur writer got Rs 5 lakh for first film, didn’t get paid for the sequel: ‘There was one vanity van on set, everyone was living in a lodge’

Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur is known as one of the most significant films of the 21st century in Indian cinema, and the crew and cast that worked on the film has often spoken about how the movie was made with a limited budget . In a recent interview, Zeishan Quadri, who played Definite in the film, and was the story writer of Gangs of Wasseypur, shared that he was paid only Rs 5 lakh as the writer. He shared that he was promised that he would be paid separately for the second part but since the production house funding the film backed out a week before the shoot, there was no money left and he wasn’t paid.

In a chat with Siddharth Kannan on his YouTube channel, Zeishan was asked if Anurag wasn’t as interested in making the film after the initial pitch. To this, Zeishan