Ali Fazal has been stationed in Benares over the past few weeks, shooting for the second season of his hit show Mirzapur. The actor plays a gun-toting and expletive-spewing gangster, Guddu Pandit, in the Amazon Prime crime thriller that offers a hard look at the lawlessness of the region. While Fazal has had no qualms about using foul language in front of the camera, understanding well enough that it is the demand of the character, the actor recently put his foot down when a scene required him to hurl expletives in front of kids.

A source informs that on the day of the shoot, Fazal read the sequence and immediately expressed his reservation to the team. "Since the dialogues were heavy on expletives, Ali was clear that the scene can't include kids. He reasoned that Mirzapur is an A-rated show and is strictly for the audience above 18 years of age, and it wouldn't be right to expose children to such language. Ali is dead against the use of vulgar language in front of children."