Gangs of Wasseypur

{{Infobox film
| name           = Gangs of Wasseypur
| image          = Gangs of wasseypur.jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = Anurag Kashyap
| producer       = Atul ShuklaAnurag KashyapSunil BohraViacom 18 Motion Pictures
| screenplay     = 
| writer         = Zeishan QuadriAkhileshSachin LadiaAnurag KashyapAkhilesh Jaiswal
| starring       = Manoj BajpaiJaideep AhlawatNawazuddin SiddiquiHuma QureshiTigmanshu DhuliaVineet Kumar SinghPiyush MishraPankaj TripathiRicha ChaddaReemma Sen
| music          = Sneha Khanwalkar (soundtrack)G. V. Prakash Kumar (score)
| cinematography = Rajeev Ravi
| editing        = Shweta Venkat
| studio         = Anurag Kashyap Films  Jar Pictures Elle Driver Productions
| distributor    = Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
| released       = 
| runtime        = 319 minutes<ref name=Runtime>{{cite web|title=GANS OF WASSEYPUR – PART 1 (15) |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/gangs-wasseypur-2013 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130419202946/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/gangs-wasseypur-2013 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2013 |work=British Board of Film Classification |accessdate=9 February 2013 }}</ref>
| country        = India
| language       = Hindi
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}Gangs of Wasseypur (stylised as Gangs of वासेपुर) is a 2012 Indian two-part crime film, produced and directed by Anurag Kashyap, and written by Kashyap and Zeishan Quadri. Centered on the coal mafia (Mafia Raj) of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance between three crime families, the film features an ensemble cast, with Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadda and Tigmanshu Dhulia in the major roles. Its story spans from the early 1940s to the 2000s. Both parts were originally shot as a single film measuring a total of 319 minutes and screened at the 2012 Cannes Directors' Fortnight, but, since no Indian theatre would volunteer to screen a more-than-five-hour film, it was divided into two parts for the Indian market.

Anurag had also revealed twice - once in 2010 and once in 2018 - that the Tamil movie, Subramaniapuram (2008) was the inspiration for this movie series.

Most characters in this film are from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Wasseypur.

Cast

 Manoj Bajpai as Sardar Khan, Shahid Khan's son
 Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Faizal Khan, Sardar's second son
 Huma Qureshi as Mohsina Hamid, Faizal's wife
 Piyush Mishra as Nasir, Sardar's uncle
 Jameel Khan as Asghar Khan, Sardar's cousin
 Jaideep Ahlawat as Shahid Khan, the patriarch of the Khan family. 
 Tigmanshu Dhulia as Ramadhir Singh, a criminal cum politician.
 Satya Anand as J.P Singh, Ramadhir's son
 Richa Chadda as Nagma Khatun, Sardar's first wife
 Zeishan Quadri as Definite Khan, Sardar's third son 
 Reema Sen as Durga, Sardar's second wife
 Pankaj Tripathi as Sultan Qureshi, nephew of sultana daku, one of Sardar's enemies.
 Vipin Sharma as Ehsan Qureshi, Sultan's uncle
 Vineet Kumar Singh as Danish Khan, Sardar's eldest son
 Aditya Kumar as Babu "Babua/Perpendicular" Khan, Sardar's fourth son
 Anurita Jha as Shama Parveen, Danish's wife and Sultan's sister
 Murari Kumar as Guddu
 Yashpal Sharma as Occasional Singer (Guest Appearance)
 Rajkummar Rao as Shamshad Alam
 Shankar as Shankar
 Hazrat Ali as Definite Khan (young)
 Tilak Raj Mishra as Sanjeev
 Syed Khan as Iqbal Khan
 Naman Tiwari as Ajay Singh (young)
 Aniket Raj as Vijay Singh (young)
 Jaikumar Solanki as Jatin
 Sanjay Varma as Inspector Udayveer Singh
 Sandeep Arora as ACP Jadhav
 Pramod Pathak as Sultana Daku
 Harish Khanna as Yadav
 Raj Singh as Thakur
 Sam Raj as Raj
 Vicky Nanavare as Parallel Khan, Sardar's fifth son
 Uncredited child as Firoz Khan, Faizal's son

Parts

Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1

Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2

 Critical reception 
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that the film holds a 96% approval rating, based on 27 reviews, with an average score of 8.36/10. The film holds a Metacritic score of 89 based on 10 reviews, indicating "[u]niversal acclaim". 

Critic Danny Bowes of RogerEbert.com called it "[o]ne of the most ambitious gangster films ever made, and quite possibly one of the best", writing that it is "worthy of discussion alongside Coppola's first two “Godfather” films, or Leone's “Once Upon a Time in America.”" Salon's Andrew O'Hehir wrote: "As a rich and exuberant character-driven crime saga in an idiom you absolutely have not encountered before, and a dense, unsentimental portrayal of the collision between democracy, capitalism and gangsterism on the frayed margins of the post-colonial world, Gangs of Wasseypur is a signal achievement in 21st-century cinema."

In 2019, The Guardian ranked Gangs of Wasseypur in 59th place in its 100 best films of the 21st century list.

Awards and Nominations

Sequel
There was a rumored third part of the franchise, named Gangs of Wasseypur 1.5''. However, Director Kashyap discarded the rumors and confirmed there won't be a third part of the franchise.

Notes

References

See also
Faheem Khan

External links

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