Kashyap is in a better position than most, though. Every few years, a contender arises – wasn't it Slumdog Millionaire last time? – but these two tectonic plates of cinema never seem to shift any closer. The crossover between western and Indian film-making is like nuclear fusion or a long-unsolved maths problem: a conundrum that could unlock untold riches if anyone cracked it, which no-one ever does. In this context, describing Gangs Of Wasseypur as a breath of fresh air seems inappropriate, but for Indian cinema, it feels like a significant moment. I don't think any of us could eat meat for a month."
While we were shooting, 60 buffaloes and a camel got slaughtered before our eyes. It was filmed on bustling streets and industrial wastelands, even – since one of the movie's central clans are butchers by trade – an abattoir. And rather than drugs or casinos, these gangs are fighting for control of coal mines and scrap metal.
Wasseypur is a nondescript industrial town in Bihar, India's poorest region.
Everywhere except India." By contrast, Kashyap's latest movie, Gangs Of Wasseypur, seems determined to show the India you don't see in the movies. "They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland – clean places. "Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean," says Anurag Kashyap.
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