Nawazuddin Siddiqui recently, in an interview, recalled an incident when filmmaker Anurag Kashyap scolded him on the ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ sets since he was apparently 'behaving too much like Al Pacino'. In an interview, Nawazuddin recalled Anurag asking him not to 'play power' and 'just be normal and you'd look dangerous'.
‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ (2012), produced and directed by Anurag Kashyap, also featured Manoj Bajpai, Pankaj Tripathi, Richa Chadda, Huma Qureshi and Tigmanshu Dhulia.
Speaking to Mashable India, Nawazuddin said, ''I was in that phase for three to four months. My teacher would advise me not to do it. On the first day of the shooting of Gangs Of Wasseypur, main pura Al Pacino banke gaya (I went like Al Pacino). I would even speak like him. Anurag (Kashyap) scolded me a lot at night. He told me, 'You're behaving too much like Al Pacino'. So I threw the entire facade away overnight and I couldn't sleep all night. When I went there in the morning the next day, I went purely as Nawaz.”
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The actor added, "You don't get powers just by playing it. For example, Anurag used to say, 'You have 25 people standing behind you so you don't have to play power. Just be normal and you'd look dangerous'."
Nawazuddin was last seen in ‘Tiku Weds Sheru’ opposite Avneet Kaur. He also has ‘Noorani Chehra’, ‘Haddi’ and ‘Adbhut’ in the pipeline.
