The attempt to avoid any reference to gangs and violence may have been heightened since the release of the film. The smell of an invisible but ever-present threat hangs over the area, mingling with acrid fumes of coking coal. Iqbal indirectly acknowledges it all when he says, "There are two laws in Dhanbad-one to arrest Faheem Khan's family, another to investigate denizens of Singh Mansion." It's a reference to Suraj Deo Singh's palatial house.