Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Richa Chadda, Reemma Sen, Piyush Mishra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi
Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Rating: ***
One of the reasons why Slumdog Millionaire was a global explosion was because it meticulously recorded and reported on the underbelly of Mumbai in a way that you could not just see but also experience the proceedings on the screen. This doesn’t mean that when you go to watch ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, the usher would come and stab you silly or the popcorn vendor would hold a bucket to your chest to buffer the sound of a pointblank fire. But what you see and hear will surely make you a happy hostage, willing to surrender to Wasseypur: a land where ‘kabootars’ multitask and uprooting rail tracks to loot carriages is hardly a task.
One of the reasons why Slumdog Millionaire was a global explosion was because it meticulously recorded and reported on the underbelly of Mumbai in a way that you could not just see but also experience the proceedings on the screen. This doesn’t mean that when you go to watch ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, the usher would come and stab you silly or the popcorn vendor would hold a bucket to your chest to buffer the sound of a pointblank fire. But what you see and hear will surely make you a happy hostage, willing to surrender to Wasseypur: a land where ‘kabootars’ multitask and uprooting rail tracks to loot carriages is hardly a task.
Firstly, here’s what you shouldn’t expect from this film. If your neighbour/ friend/ colleague/ driver told you that this film is based on the coal mafia, he/she didn’t know any better. The central characters are engaged in ‘koylay ki dalaali’ but their ‘mooh kaala’ happens for multiple reasons. Secondly, if you’re expecting a fast-paced thriller where people are on the run and all your predictions for upcoming scenes are turned over their head, this is not a film for you. Here, we have a unique specimen, one that is slow and slick. Characters are introduced at a leisurely pace and much time is consumed in setting the mood and environment. Even the people are sliced and diced skillfully like a Sous-chef manicuring a carrot. One could say that the film invests so much time to establish the place and the people that it leaves little time to tell a story. But then in a character-driven movie, it makes sense to give each person due footage to minutely demonstrate their traits and maaro dialogues that make them memorable by the end of the film.
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