Vicky Kaushal was almost beaten up by sand mafia during Gangs of Wasseypur shoot: It was the first time I realised...

Before making his debut as the leading actor in the 2015 film Masaan, Vicky Kaushal worked as an assistant director on Anurag Kashyap's two-part crime saga Gangs of Waaseypur, which was released in 2012. In a recent conversation, the Sam Bahadur actor shared that he was almost beaten by sand mafia during the filming of Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer film.

Speaking to Tanmay Bhat on his YouTube channel, Vicky said, "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 it 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."

The National Award-winning actor added, "We were shooting them secretly and some people came. There were 500 people surrounding us. So, 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."

Meanwhile, Vicky is grabbing the limelight in his recently released romantic comedy Bad Newz. Also starring Triptii Dimri and Ammy Virk, the Anand Tiwari directorial and Karan Johar production hit the theaters on July 19. Vicky's smooth moves in the track Tauba Tauba sung, composed, and penned by Karan Aujla, became a sensation across the social media.

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