Rajkummar Rao is presently on the promotional spree of Maalik. In an distinct interview, the actor shed mild on numerous stages of his life. He also recalled how Gangs of Wasseypur turned into at the beginning supposed to be a showdown between his and Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character. However, things got modified and his function became reduced to a first-rate quantity.
Rajkummar Rao recalls how his parallel role in Gangs of Wasseypur become cut
Rajkummar Rao reminisced approximately how Anurag Kashyap approached him and offered Gangs of Wasseypur. He stated, “Anurag sir called me for Gangs of Wasseypur. At that time Wasseypur turned into supposed to be among me and Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). The story become among those  characters.”

He similarly delivered that he turned into very excited to do a parallel lead in Kashyap’s film. Rao found out that he and Nawaz even went to the actual Wasseypur to recognize the dialect and accent. “Me and Nawaz absolutely went to Wasseypur with the author, Zeeshan (Zeeshan Qadri) hume leke gaye the kyunki wo wahi se hain. Hum log waha rahe kuch time, I was recording human beings on my voice recorder just to get the accessory and to recognize the milieu. Bahot maja aaya.”
One day while he became busy with the patchwork of Ragini MMS, he were given a name from Anurag Kashyap, who asked Rao to go to his office. “I met him he said ki sun script aa gayi hai but abhi tera function usme kuch bacha nahi hai, to tu dekh kya karna hai. I would love to have you in my film but making a decision. I stated, Sir, mujhe aapke saath kaam karna hai. I dont recognize kitna bada function hai but jo bhi hai essential karunga,” brought qRao. Further, Rao underlined that Anurag Kashyap had advocated his call to Hansal Mehta for Shahid, which turned out to be a course-breaking movie for him. 

Rajkummar Rao admits feeling bad as his function was chopped from script
Though Rajkummar admitted that he felt awful when Kashyap informed him approximately his decreased screen time. “Of course thoda bura laga tha, kyunki mujhe pata nahi tha ki kitna (function) kata hai. We all are humans. Mujhe thoda bura to laga tha ki yaar hum log to gaye the teach se 3 din lage the wahan pahuchne me, educate se wapas bhi aaye the. Nobody had money. But that turned into all pleasant so long as I’m getting work,” Rajkummar concluded. 

(Of direction, I felt a little awful because I did no longer realize how a whole lot (role) is cut. We all are people. I felt a bit bad that we went through train, it took 3 days to reach there, we also came back with the aid of train. Nobody had cash. But that changed into all first-rate so long as I’m getting work.)