1/3/2023 0 Comments Gangs of wasseypur director![]() ![]() Tigmanshu Dhulia makes a powerful debut and has a career in acting apart from filmmaking. ![]() In GOW, Bajpayee gets his career’s best role and he shines the character he plays is not really positive but the flaws make him more real – someone you support at times and hate at others. Both actresses deliver impressive performances but Richa’s character draws more empathy. Then there is the other ‘ womaniya’, Durga ( Reemma Sen) like the men in Wasseypur, she does not have any qualms in claiming what is not rightfully hers. She loves and hates her man in equal parts but stands by him in all adverse situations. Coming to the women in GOW Richa Chaddha as Nagma, Khan’s fiery wife steals the thunder from Bajpayee whenever she appears on screen. At one point, Sardar Khan’s wife tells him to eat properly so that he doesn’t embarrass himself by not being able to perform sexually at a brothel she says something like, “ Khana khao, takat aayega, bahar jaa ke be-izzati na karana”. The film has powerful dialogues that shock and amuse in equal parts. Kashyap effectively uses humour and music to keep the film entertaining and not only a blood-fest. However, the director manages keeps it all together and sustains the interest for about 160-minutes. The film’s plot is complex and this is just the main premise there are many characters that keep getting introduced throughout the film. Not that the Pathans were innocent Sardar Khan’s father, Shahid Khan ( Jaideep Ahlawat) used to loot the British trains by impersonating the legendary dacoit, Sultana Daku, a Qureshi. Butchers by profession, the Qureshis were responsible for driving out the Pathans ( Khans) from Wasseypur in 1941. On one hand, Khan has Singh to destroy in Dhanbad he has the Qureshi clan in Wasseypur to fight with as well. He does not want to kill him but savour the revenge by bringing Singh’s empire to a downfall. Sardar Khan ( Manoj Bajpayee) swears to avenge his father’s death by the hands of coal mine contractor turned politician, Ramadhir Singh ( Tigmanshu Dhulia). ![]() ![]() GOW is a story about men obsessed with power and revenge. Expansive in vision and scale, the GOW saga spans three generations and borrows heavily from real life incidents from pre-independence era to the modern times. Director, Anurag Kashyap’s ambitious saga about coal mafia and revenge, set in Wasseypur / Dhanbad (now in Jharkhand earlier in Bihar) packs in a lot of punch with its clever writing ( Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh, Sachin Ladia & Kashyap himself) and performances. After watching ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ ( GOW) yesterday, a friend tweeted, “go watch, if you have class enough to appreciate crass…” While I am not sure if I agree with her completely, it is certainly a film to watch. ![]()
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