Reel revenge saga leads to outrage in real life Wasseypur

Anurag Kashyap39s directorial venture gives a distorted message about the Muslimdominated area39s social cultural and economic life and only perpetuates stereotypes say the outraged people of Wasseypur just two kilometres from Dhanbad stationu00a0From the title to the content the film boasting an ensemble cast including Manoj Bajpayee has led to hurt and indignation here Wasseypur youths led by BJP leader Jawed Khan painting the poster of controversial film Gangs of Wasseypur black PicIANS quotThe film presents a wrong picture of Wasseypur They mixed facts with fiction and came out with something that is dangerous People don39t know what is the truth and what is fictionquot Sahil Siddiqui who guides students for the civil services exams told IANS The town about 165 km from state capital Ranchi has a population of about 200000 and does focus on education unlike what the film attempts to portrayu00a0quotThe history doesn39t start with the conflict between Pathans and Qureshis as the film makes it out It was just a conflict between two gangs over scrap business The foundation was laid by the late Wassey Sahab and Jabbar Sahab in 195556 They were known contractors of Dhanbadquot said dentist Taqi Anwar Story writer Zeishan Quadri who belongs to Wasseypur told IANS that quotthe film is 80 percent real and 20 percent fictionquot The residents however disagree saying that the film is an quotinsensitivequot and quotbrutalquot portrayal of a way of life that doesn39t exist in reality According to Anwar the film attempts to quotgeneralise criminal conflict between two people as the story and history of Wasseypurquotu00a0quotWhen the film starts it says 39yahan ek se ek haramzade rehte hain39 It39s totally unacceptablequot added a visibly upset Anwaru00a0The anger is widespreadu00a0Imran Khan an educationist told IANS that the film is a quotdirty and wrong picturisation of the placequot quotIt is like any other locality where both good and bad people live The film attempts to make a hero out of some criminal elements People do not use filthy language as shown in the film Doctors engineers and IAS officers live herequot said Imran Abu Tarique a marketing executive described quotGangs of Wasseypurquot as quotthird gradequot as it does not challenge but sustains quotthe stereotypes associated with Wasseypur in general and Muslims in particularquotu00a0 Asadur Rahman a journalist with Urdu daily Faruqi Tanzeem said the film quotstalls the integration of Wasseypurquot with the mainstream societyu00a0quotThere was already an official bias and discrimination with the Muslimdominated locality and now with this film it39ll be further aggravated The film may lead to further segregation of Wasseypur from the mainstream societyquot quotWhy did Anurag Kashyap choose a Muslim areaquot he askedu00a0In the view of Bilquis Khanum general secretary of district Congress party39s women39s cell the film has already done the damageu00a0quotMy kids have been subjected to lewd comments by his classmates in schools Children of the locality are being nicknamed as Sardar Khan the gang lord played by Manoj What message does this film gives to the youthquot she asked BJP minority cell president of Dhanbad Jawed Khan says he had sent a legal notice to Kashyap which the filmmaker did not receiveu00a0quotThe film is an attempt to defame Wasseypur On June 13 we filed a case in the Jharkhand High Court demanding that the name of the film be changed and some dialogues be changed We do not object to the film being made but the film is on the story of coal mafias then why drag Wasseypur39s name inquot he asked quotI had led a peaceful protest outside the cinema halls on the first day of the film We painted the posters black and marked the day as Black Day for citizens of Wasseypurquot Jawed told IANSu00a0