But violence, let us reiterate, is a constant in the lives of the characters as they stumble, fall, attack, kill or get killed in this blood-soaked bullet-ridden saga of gangsterism which makes director Francis Ford Coppola's Sicily look like a holiday resort. There are funny scenes of violence, tragic scenes of violence and tragi-comic scenes of violence. The address you want is in Varanasi," says the helpful man before he's gunned down in the crowded bazaar.įor the record, the Gangs Of Wasseypur marathon is located in the Dhanbad belt, but had to be shot in Varanasi. In one sequence, an assassin asks his intended victim the address on a visiting card. When Kashyap is not paying tongue-in-cheek tributes to an era from Hindi cinema that seems to repeatedly define the lives of the film's characters, he is busy taking digs at his own brilliantly crafted homage to gangsterism.
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The series of miscommunication and misinformation among the assassins when Sultan Qureshi (Pankaj Tripathi) is to be gunned down in a crowded market, is straight out of comic-action films from the 1980s. The ceaseless violence is quite often savagely funny. The latter was actually sung in the film at the death of a canine. While the funeral of two of the key characters is on Yashpal's earnest attempt at musical expression, soars into Yaad teri aayegi mujhko bada sataayegi and Teri meherbaniyan tracks, they seem to unintentionally mock the solemnity of the occasion. And yes, there is Yashpal Sharma, the resident stage singer of Wasseypur crooning a 1980s song for every occasion. A whole thesis can be written on the interesting caller tunes from the 1980s and 1990s used by the characters in their mobile phone. The ceaseless shower of bullets gets a hand-up on the visceral soundtrack from Sneha Khanwalkar's excruciatingly evocative folk songs of Bihar (some of which are used in two versions, ironical or poignant, but always intensely definitive) and with excellent use of the puerile film songs of the 1980s, which used to be out on the T-Series label back then when music piracy was as rampant as political hooliganism.Įven when the epic narration moves into the 2000 millennium, the characters are stuck in the 1980s. The price for any crime, petty or grave, is the same. In Kashyap's version of the Wild West, you could get killed on the spot for anything, for asking the time or raping your neighbour's sister. The violence of the politically corroded north Indian town (Wasseypur, or what you will) is exaggerated to a point of utter outrageousness. Does that make sense? It had better! That so-real-that-it's-unreal tempestuous twilight zone is where Kashyap's film belongs. The gang wars are so real that they are unreal. Kashyap crams in-house jokes into every nook and cranny of this diligently-constructed breathtaking ode to the culture of street violence. This, if you are familiar with the language of commercial Hindi cinema, is in character with the image of the filmy police force. "Why don't you hand over the body to us and come with us?" "We understand," squeaks a khaki-clad gentleman. "Don't you see I'm taking my brother home," Faizal bellows. Cops stop Faizal and politely ask him to accompany them to the police station. There's a typically wry Kashyap joke just before interval when the raging protagonist Faizal (or 'Faijal', as everyone including his wife calls him), carries his kid-brother's corpse home. In any case, no one in Kashyap's god-forsaken kingdom takes cops seriously, not even the cops themselves. The lyrics of all the songs have been written by Varun Grover and Piyush Mishra.If you try to count the numbers of bullets that are fired at unsuspecting victims in the ferociously violent world inhabited by Anurag Kashyap's trigger-happy goons, you might end up cross-eyed.Ĭaught in the crossfire of vendetta and redemption, the characters of Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 are so on-the-edge, they don't fear the abyss that awaits them at the end of their vengeful voyage. The music of Gangs Of Wasseypur has been composed by Sneha Khanwalkar. It’s 6 hours long and will release in two parts. The film which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festive in France (2012), is directed by Anurag Kashyap. All hindi song lyrics from Gangs Of Wasseypur, featuring talented actors like Manoj Bajpai, Reema Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Piyush Mishra and Shabana Azmi.