From Budhana village in UP, Nawazuddin worked as a night watchman in Delhi and faced over a decade of rejection in Mumbai from an industry with narrow ideas of how a lead actor should look, before Gangs of Wasseypur changed Indian cinema.
Talent and persistence outlast every superficial industry standard.
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