Gangs of Wasseypur: Spread across 6 decades, 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (GOW) is a revenge saga narrated as raw as possible with violence, gore, filthy dialogues. So are my readers already wondering why I would give it 5 on 5? As a movie lover, the reason is that, it is indeed raw, on-your-face, violent, gory and laden with filth and betrayal. How else is a Mafia-revenge saga supposed to be? To have attempted to make a movie with such a subject is worth praise, and to have made it in a way that the Tarantinos of the world will get a run for their money is another thing all together.
GOW premiered in the Director's fortnight at Cannes this year and the movie is a proof that Indian cinema is not just running around the trees and the 'Khan's, Kapoor's and Kleavage'.
The movie starts in the current era and takes us 60 years back to the British era, where the Coal mafia is born and sets the background for the movie. Money, Power and Sex are three vices which have always existed, and the characters in the movie are driven by these. Born of these vices are corruption, greed, lust and revenge. The movie showcases the birth of Coal mafia in pre-Independence and its growth post Independence, Scrap trade, trade unions in the free India and how the hunger for Power and Money has corroded our society. The story of Wasseypur is not a far reality from the rest of the country.
The characters of the movie are etched to perfection, be it the men in the movie - Sultana Daku, Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat), Ramadhir Singh(Tigmanshu Dhulia), Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpai), Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) or the women - Najma (Richa Chadda) and Durga (Reemma Sen). They are not graceful and their tongue is laden with filth. But what else is expected out of a society of people who live in blood and gore! Hats off to all these actors to have pulled of their roles to such perfection. When you see the movie you see Sardar Khan and not Manoj Bajpai, which is a great achievement since he is the only most familiar face of Bollywood in the movie. It surprised me to see his washboard abs, which otherwise is such a selling point for our Khans and Kapoors, was never mentioned in the promos of the movie.
The dialogues and the background score of the movie just enhances the movie watching experience. Some of my favourites were mouthed by Najma, Sultan and Sardar Khan. The scene which cuts into India's Independence is one of my favourites in the movie (Won't say wat it is here, pls watch the movie to experience it for yourself).
Sneha Khanwalkar's music just blends with the movie like salt in water. My favourite tracks are 'Hunter', 'Womeniya' and 'Bihar ke lala'.
The surprise package of the movie was Tigmanshu Dhulia, who has given us movies like 'Haasil', 'Sahib, Biwi aur Gangstar' and 'Paan Singh Tomar', showcasing his acting talent. His look is menacing and the scene where he beats up his son is so believable. I am sure more movies are going to be coming his way and would love to see more of such thrilling performances from him.
And lastly what can I say which is already not being said about Anurag Kashyap - The Man who had the guts to show us that Devdas, Paro and Chandramukhi were all driven by lust! He indeed is a gifted director who has the vision to put on screen, what I call the 'celebration of Revenge' in Indian cinema in a never-seen-before way. Take a bow Anurag, 'Kasam Paida karne wale ki', you are making Indian Cinema and movie lovers like me swell in pride.
Ratings:
Direction: 10/10
Acting by Lead Actors:10/10
Technical Aspects:9.5/10
Over All Rating:9.8/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_Wasseypur
GOW premiered in the Director's fortnight at Cannes this year and the movie is a proof that Indian cinema is not just running around the trees and the 'Khan's, Kapoor's and Kleavage'.
The movie starts in the current era and takes us 60 years back to the British era, where the Coal mafia is born and sets the background for the movie. Money, Power and Sex are three vices which have always existed, and the characters in the movie are driven by these. Born of these vices are corruption, greed, lust and revenge. The movie showcases the birth of Coal mafia in pre-Independence and its growth post Independence, Scrap trade, trade unions in the free India and how the hunger for Power and Money has corroded our society. The story of Wasseypur is not a far reality from the rest of the country.
The characters of the movie are etched to perfection, be it the men in the movie - Sultana Daku, Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat), Ramadhir Singh(Tigmanshu Dhulia), Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpai), Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) or the women - Najma (Richa Chadda) and Durga (Reemma Sen). They are not graceful and their tongue is laden with filth. But what else is expected out of a society of people who live in blood and gore! Hats off to all these actors to have pulled of their roles to such perfection. When you see the movie you see Sardar Khan and not Manoj Bajpai, which is a great achievement since he is the only most familiar face of Bollywood in the movie. It surprised me to see his washboard abs, which otherwise is such a selling point for our Khans and Kapoors, was never mentioned in the promos of the movie.
The dialogues and the background score of the movie just enhances the movie watching experience. Some of my favourites were mouthed by Najma, Sultan and Sardar Khan. The scene which cuts into India's Independence is one of my favourites in the movie (Won't say wat it is here, pls watch the movie to experience it for yourself).
Sneha Khanwalkar's music just blends with the movie like salt in water. My favourite tracks are 'Hunter', 'Womeniya' and 'Bihar ke lala'.
The surprise package of the movie was Tigmanshu Dhulia, who has given us movies like 'Haasil', 'Sahib, Biwi aur Gangstar' and 'Paan Singh Tomar', showcasing his acting talent. His look is menacing and the scene where he beats up his son is so believable. I am sure more movies are going to be coming his way and would love to see more of such thrilling performances from him.
And lastly what can I say which is already not being said about Anurag Kashyap - The Man who had the guts to show us that Devdas, Paro and Chandramukhi were all driven by lust! He indeed is a gifted director who has the vision to put on screen, what I call the 'celebration of Revenge' in Indian cinema in a never-seen-before way. Take a bow Anurag, 'Kasam Paida karne wale ki', you are making Indian Cinema and movie lovers like me swell in pride.
Ratings:
Direction: 10/10
Acting by Lead Actors:10/10
Technical Aspects:9.5/10
Over All Rating:9.8/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_Wasseypur
This we call the bawaal movie.....even 100s of Rowdy Rathods and Dabangg would gasp for breath before movie like GoWI and II. Part I was like bullet started, and Part is the the same bullet when it reaches climax. Yes, we certainly missed Manoj Bajpayi though all performances in part 2 were great and electric...just like electric piya! Movie ho to aesi! Cheecha leather....Best of the year.
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