The film tells the story of three generations of three familiesof the butcher Sultan Qureshi (played by Pankaj Tripathi), mafia don-turned-politician Ramadhir Singh, and the Pathan Shahid Khan (played by Jaideep Ahlawat). Locals tend to shy away from any reference to the violence that rules their lives, though, dig a little, and you will 1notice a sense of proprietarial pride in the knowledge of who killed whom in this endless cycle of retributions. That's how it's done in Dhanbad," he adds. "Shafiq Khan was really shot dead at Topchachi petrol pump. Mafia wars of this area, 2 km from Dhanbad's railhead, now part of Jharkhand state, are local folklore. Elsewhere, a Wasseypur resident who wishes to remain anonymous says, "It was as it had happened." He was referring to how Part I of the film had ended, with the death of Sardar Khan. "You are likely to find Prince and Goodwin Khans here instead," he says.
So, he says, are the Montague-Capulet type romances, or names like Perpendicular and Definite. He says the sequence in Part Iof the film, where Sardar Khan issues an open threat to Ramadhir Singh (loosely based on the real-life Suraj Deo Singh, played by Timangshu Dhulia), demanding the return of an abducted woman, is also fictitious. None of this is in the film," continues Iqbal. "My grandfather (Shafiq Khan in real life, Sardar Khan in the film, played by Manoj Bajpayee) was killed by an assassin hired by my grand-uncle, Hanif. Recently released from prison on bail, he is the son of Faheem Khan, who appears in Anurag Kashyap's epic, two-part film Gangs of Wasseypuras Faisal Khan (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui). "There is no story of revenge here," says 24-year-old Iqbal Khan of Wasseypur, Dhanbad. Iqbal Khan (Left), son of INTUC leader Faheem Khan, on whom The Gangs of Wasseypur character Faisal Khan is based, with cousin Goodwin Khan, outside their home in Wasseypur.
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