Faheem struck the first blow, allegedly murdering Shabir's brother Wahid, after Wahid led an attack on Faheem's home that left one dead. Faheem had meanwhile instigated a conflict with businessman Shabir, who rebuffed an extortion bid by him. 'Agenty', a term for extortion from private bus services, was the apparent cause of conflict between Faheem and gangster Babla, but this is denied by Faheem's family. Yet, more than man-made 'natural' disasters, it is the mafia that casts a dark shroud over Dhanbad.ДЄ lot of gangs fight over the scraps of urbanisation. Reports of roof collapses burying miners in illegal mines never even make it to the inside pages of national dailies these days. Kala Patthar (1979), starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha, Bollywood's take on the horrific accident, is still remembered here. And in case you thought this was all in the past, Faheem Khan, now INTUC leader and recently released from jail, and his friend Shahid, barely managed to escape an attack by a hit squad on the night of July 30, 2012, that left his bodyguard Binod dead and his brother-in-law Seraj battling for life.Д¬rowds throng to watch the film in Dhanbad.This is where, in December 1975, a disaster claimed over 380 lives when a lake emptied itself into the Chasnala mine. On April 14, 2000, Gurudas Chatterjee, Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC) MLA, was gunned down near Deoli. Superintendent of Police (SP) Randhir Prasad Verma was killed while resisting a bank robbery in 1991. Railway contractor Mohammad Irfan and ward commissioner Najeer Ahmed were also shot dead. Goon Sakel Dev Singh was shot to death on the bypass road, while his brother was shot dead at Shakti Chowk. Gangster Samin Khan was shot dead on the steps of Dhanbad court. Rai were all found murdered in its dusty lanes. Santosh Sengupta of the 1Forward Bloc, Mukul Dev of RJD, and union leader S.K. In real life, Shahid's was one of the earliest in a long list of assassinations that blots the history of these badlands.

The saga starts with the murder of Shahid by Ramadhir, and the cycle of revenge unleashed by Shahid's son Sardar, and Sardar's son Faisal. 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). That's how it's done in Dhanbad,' he adds.ДЄ scene from Gangs of Wasseypur.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. '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 I of 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 Wasseypur as Faisal Khan (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui). 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.'There is no story of revenge here,' says 24-year-old Iqbal Khan of Wasseypur, Dhanbad.

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