The direction is the best I have seen this year in Hindi cinema and will only increase the expectations from the second part of this opus. Anurag Kashyap has put his soul into the movie and that is visible from every frame of the movie.
The only negative point about the movie is its length which could have been edited somewhat in the second half when the third generation takes up (like the long Godfather III, if you may). The conversation rings true to life and had me laughing at the sheer vulgarity of it. The words, replete with the choicest of abuses, feel as if they were wiretapped. The real strength of the movie is its dialogues.
He is backed by a very strong ensemble cast. When he stares lustfully at the back side of Reema Sen (here resurrected after being in the wilderness for nearly half a dozen years), you can feel the lust as a physical thing. The acting by the "star" cast is stunning with Manoj Vajpayee leading the pack in as good as a performance as "Bheeku Mahatre" in Satya. He starts becoming too big for his shoes and is bumped off by the landlord thus beginning a series of killings and counter-killings. The pathan, the father of Sardar Khan (Manoj Vajpayee) has been kicked out of his village, Wasseypur, after a confrontation with the local musclemen, the Qureshis, and is now forced to work in the mines of Dhanbad. After independence, these mines pass on to the wealthy landlord who hires an exiled Pathan to act as his strongman. The story starts from the pre- independence era when the British owned the mines in Dhanbad. The movie tells the story of rivalries between different sects of Muslims: the butchers, Qureshis, and the Pathans, Khans and extend over a period of three generations. The movie, which is 160 minutes long, starts with a shoot-them-up which may be the most authentic shoot-to-kill scene in Hindi cinema.
But such was the level of anticipation with "gangs of wasseypur" that I found myself standing in front of the ticket counter at quarter to nine. It has been nearly 5 years since I went and saw a movie first day first show in the theatres.
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