Director Anurag Kashyap looks for real people in his performers and that's his formula for getting the cast right almost always in his movies, which have introduced some of the finest actors to Hindi cinema with Gangs of Wasseypur being the apt example. Kashyap said he also likes 'the hungry stage' of a new actor as they are willing to put in all the hard work without being prompted. 'I need to sense the real person in my actors. The real person that exists within you is important for me. Rest I leave it to actors, they are intelligent enough to do their homework. That's how I do my casting,' the director told PTI.

'You meet someone and feel 'Now, I will be able to complete my film'. I would not have made 'Ugly' if I had not met Rahul Bhat. I know that he understood the pain of failure. I told him if you don't colour your greys and also lose all muscles, I will make the film,' he said. Kashyap said that's how he gathered the cast for his Netflix film 'Choked' - Saiyami Kher and Roshan Mathew, Viineet Kumar for 'Mukkabaaz' and Taapsee Pannu for 'Manmarziyaan'. Kumar had in the past worked with the director on his two-part revenge saga 'Gangs of Wasseypur', which turned eight this week, and anthology film 'Bombay Talkies'. 'I told Viineet, if you become a boxer I will make the film. When we were auditioning, Taapsee came to meet scriptwriter Kanika Dhillon and as they kept talking, I realised 'this is Rumi'.