Mumbai, Sept. 14 -- After entertaining his fans with gritty masterpieces including the cult-classic crime saga 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (2012), the dark thriller 'Ugly' (2013), and the psychological crime drama 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is back with another hard-hitting drama titled 'Nishaanchi.'

Since the trailer release, many fans have been comparing the film to 'Gangs of Wasseypur' because of its look and feel. But Kashyap himself has cleared the air, saying the two stories are not the same.

The director laughed while explaining, "This is a film of North India. It is not Wasseypur. But the same kind of fun that people had in Wasseypur, they will have here too."

He added that the purpose behind making Nishaanchi was to...