In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.
Anurag Kashyap's sprawling crime epic earned widespread admiration for its raw regional authenticity, darkly comic violence, and the sheer ambition of its generational scope — but even enthusiastic reviewers flagged its punishing length and the director's tendency toward self-indulgence as real costs. International critics drew comparisons to Coppola, Scorsese, and Tarantino and largely embraced it as a landmark of world cinema; Indian reviewers were more likely to note where the second half loses momentum amid meandering subplots.
“Brutal, brilliant, dark, sinister, terrifying in its violence and yet savagely funny in the way human life is disregarded Gangs of Wasseypur is one helluva romp into the raw and rugged heartland. Not to be missed.”
Subhash K. Jha·IANS
“showing promise of brilliance in parts, but not bullet-proof to flaws. With a runtime this long, meandering side tracks and random sub-plots, countless characters, documentary-style narrative backed with black and white montages from actual history, it loses blood in the second half because of the Director's over-(self)indulgence.”
Madhureeta Mukherjee·The Times of India
“It is the excess that suffocates all the magic, originality dying out for lack of room to breathe. Kashyap gets flavour, setting and character right, but the lack of economy cripples the film. There is a lot of gunfire, but like the fine actors populating its sets, Wasseypur fires too many blanks.”
Raja Sen·Rediff
“Gangs of Wasseypur puts Tarantino in a corner with its cool command of cinematically inspired and referenced violence, ironic characters and breathless pace”
Deborah Young·The Hollywood Reporter
“the script alternates engagingly between scenes of sometimes stomach-churning violence and moments of domestic comedy, made more tasty by hard-boiled lines of dialogue like "in Wasseypur even the pigeons fly with one wing, because they need the other to cover their arse”
Lee Marshall·Screen International
Action, Comedy, Crime
DirectorAnurag Kashyap
StarringManoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Reema Sen
ComposerG. V. Prakash Kumar, Sneha Khanwalkar
In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.
Anurag Kashyap's sprawling crime epic earned widespread admiration for its raw regional authenticity, darkly comic violence, and the sheer ambition of its generational scope — but even enthusiastic reviewers flagged its punishing length and the director's tendency toward self-indulgence as real costs. International critics drew comparisons to Coppola, Scorsese, and Tarantino and largely embraced it as a landmark of world cinema; Indian reviewers were more likely to note where the second half loses momentum amid meandering subplots.
“Brutal, brilliant, dark, sinister, terrifying in its violence and yet savagely funny in the way human life is disregarded Gangs of Wasseypur is one helluva romp into the raw and rugged heartland. Not to be missed.”
Subhash K. Jha·IANS
“showing promise of brilliance in parts, but not bullet-proof to flaws. With a runtime this long, meandering side tracks and random sub-plots, countless characters, documentary-style narrative backed with black and white montages from actual history, it loses blood in the second half because of the Director's over-(self)indulgence.”
Madhureeta Mukherjee·The Times of India
“It is the excess that suffocates all the magic, originality dying out for lack of room to breathe. Kashyap gets flavour, setting and character right, but the lack of economy cripples the film. There is a lot of gunfire, but like the fine actors populating its sets, Wasseypur fires too many blanks.”
Raja Sen·Rediff
“Gangs of Wasseypur puts Tarantino in a corner with its cool command of cinematically inspired and referenced violence, ironic characters and breathless pace”
Deborah Young·The Hollywood Reporter
“the script alternates engagingly between scenes of sometimes stomach-churning violence and moments of domestic comedy, made more tasty by hard-boiled lines of dialogue like "in Wasseypur even the pigeons fly with one wing, because they need the other to cover their arse”
Lee Marshall·Screen International
Action, Comedy, Crime
DirectorAnurag Kashyap
StarringManoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Reema Sen
ComposerG. V. Prakash Kumar, Sneha Khanwalkar
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