Writer of Anurag Kashyap's movie 'Gangs of Wasseypur' Zeishan Quadri will be making his directorial debut. Titled as 'Meeruthiya Gangsters', the movie is based on extortion cases in Meerut. The writer stayed in the city for good 3 years and has witnessed all these cases very closely. 

Zeishan says, "Directing came as an offshoot to writing. As I started working full time as a scriptwriter, I began to want to direct them too. To see the script to its logical end—to its completion just the way I had imagined it as a writer".

"Also, I feel no director has so far managed to capture the essence of that city on camera, despite the fact that many well-known directors, including Vishal Bhardwaj, are from the city."

In addition to it, his upcoming projects involve Priyanka Chopra's 'Madamji'  and Pritish Nandy's 'Oh Womaniya'.