India, Sept. 11 -- Filmmaker Abhinav Kashyap, who directed Dabangg (2010), has lamented how actor Salman Khan's family didn't share credit with him for the film but pushed him out of the project. Speaking with Screen, Abhinav talked about how things unfolded during Dabangg and its sequel, Dabangg 2. He added that Dabangg was "a landmark film in their career and they felt the need to take entire credit."

Abhinav Kashyap spoke at length about how the Khan family sidelined him "during the marketing of the film." "What happened to me after Dabangg, exactly the opposite happened to me after Besharam. I was pushed out of Dabangg, the credit wasn't shared. I think it was a deliberate attempt by the Khan family to set up Arbaaz. Once I put the f...