By Hindustan Times
Gangs of Wasseypur (GOW) have been banned in Kuwait and Qatar for being offensive to Muslims. Director Anurag Kashyap is bemused: “How’s that possible, unless the censor body lacks objectivity?” Has it affected the revenue? “I’ve never had a release within the Middle-East before. We sold it on minimum guarantee and, so far, the distributor hasn’t complained because it is doing well within the UAE.”
A portion of the audience in India was wondering how the censors passed a movie high on violence and expletives.
Anurag retorts, “I’m sorry your kids can’t see my film, they may be able to watch the Disney film, Brave, instead. We made a movie for people with a mental age of over 18. I don’t should be conservative since you are.”
Earlier, the primary show of GOW was cancelled in Dhanbad for fears of protest.
“But that didn’t happen, and it ran to packed houses,” he says, adding that almost all of Part 1 is ready prior to now and those there have been in search of contemporary stories, shadows of so as to be partially 2.
“Many newspapers reported Wasseypur is safe today, that's mostly true. What they didn’t report is that Part 1 leads to the ’90s and Part 2 in 2004, because they prefer to create negative anticipation.”
