A League of Extraordinary Gentelmen and Woomeniya. Review on Gangs Of Wasseypur

"I feel myself blessed for being an audience of this extraordinary movie", this was my first feeling after completing the viewing of this 2hrs 40 minutes saga, which was no way tiring but engrossing . And as the movie ended with caption "To be continued...", I just cursed Anurag Kashyap in his own lingo that BC..why not release this movie in its complete full length of 5 hrs, on which entire Cannes had given an standing ovation??? And now I am waiting for 10th August, 2012 to catch its second part, eagerly!

I can plainly tell you that Gangs of Wasseypur is not just a super movie, but an extraordinary movie, made with utter perfection, dedication and excellence in every department: from performances to direction, dialogues, screenplay, character detailing, flow and even music. And this is why I put the title: A League of Extraordinary gentlemen and woomeniya..who worked in the different departments of this movie to make it an outstanding stuff in total.

Storyline is damn well researched, superbly true with excellent authentic treatment:

The brilliance, commitment and dedication starts reflecting right from the scripting stage itself. It tells you how Mafia grows in our country, how corruption has become our culture and how stars are born due to oppressive system, no matter even if the star is a wrong doing man Sahid Khan and his clan. Initial scene delves well into to make you understand this sociology of your country with background of coal mines, where some true story happened in Bihar'd Dhanbad district, Wasseypur, spanning a storyline from pre-independence era to current time of year 2004, where criminals smoothly transcended from heavy .303 rifles to home made handy Kattas to sophisticated AK-47 rilfes.

The storyline actually deal with 3 different clans: The Qureshis, clan of famous Sultana daku , who considered Wasseypur and everything passing through it as their property, which they could loot or rape, and butchery was their profession where every Querishi's guts was measured by his capacity to cut the number of buffaloes. Next clan was Sahid Khan's, the pathans who started looting things with his group in nights, on the name of Sultana Daku. This fuelled fire in Querishes, and they caught the Khans one night red handed and killed their all men barring Sahid Khan himself and his friend, who had to leave the village next day. And here took the birth of great war between Qureshis and Khans. And the third clan was a coal contractor's , who become mafia and later a minister, Ramadhir Singh, whose pet were Querishs, who would rip apart buffaloes in the slaughter house with same grit as they butchered the opponents of Ramadhir Singh like any other Buffalo.

And the entire story runs through the dynamics between these three clans, their fighting, which is fuelled to its hight when Sahid Khan joins Ramadhir Singh as his henchmen and gets killed by Ramadhir Singh when he learns that Khan was actually waiting for a time when he could kill Ramadhir Singh and grab his coal mines to rule the region. Son of Sahid Khan, Sardar Khan ( who later becomes Manoj Bajpai) is saved by his most loyal Farhan Khan ( Peeyush Mishra, who is also the sutradhar of entire saga of gangwars) in this great escaped with wit.

There, Farhan and Sardar Khan make their revenge against Ramadhir Singh as the only goal of their lives, to kill him by looting his all properties. It's just great to watch how a small timer taxi driver, Sardar Khan, starts hitting on Ramadhir Singh where he grows himself to get kattas and desi bombs and murder anyone on will, going so daring that he would get into the enemy domain and do the bombing strategically; and same time this is great watch the humane side of this man and his family life, where an extremely loving wife with great guts knows the lechery of her husband and still loves him and take pride in his gangwars and grows her children with strict warning that never to forget they they are kids of the most manly man of their lives, Sardar Khan.

The entire storyline is highly concentrated, with every frame full of detailing with perfection. A standing ovation for telling such a big canvas story with such finesse, which would put the creatively bankrupt hindi film industry into shame. And big feat is that this entire story has been told with great pace with super screenplay.

Performance ( Essential to attend the acting classes of Sardar Khan by all dummy Khans like Shahrukh and Salman Khans):

It's such a department of this movie which will definitely confuse the relevant award juries like National Awards into a deep trouble. Forget about considering any other movie too for awards for performance, this single movie alone would generate so many award contenders that the relevant award functions like National Awards would get confused whom to give the best performer's award! Manoj Bajpayi for Sahid Khan? Richa Chadda for Nagma Khatoon? Tigmanshu Dhulia for Ramadhir Singh, Nawazuddin Siddiqui for playing son of Sardar Khan, Faizal, or Peeyush Mishra for playing mentor Farhan Khan? Even the smallest roles in this movie are sharp like sharpnels! Every superlative will falls short for all the actors.

But since its character of Manoj Bajpai who holds the biggest share as well as extreme personalities with clear line of transcends ( like just watch his expressions where his lechery is compelling him to look at the back of Bangalan, while he is discussing a very serious issue), he emerges as the most deserving candidates for all major awards for performance this year. He as Sardar Khan has shown multiple shades of a bad man, who is pervert and have lots of loose things in his kitty to hate, but still you end up loving this character and feeling that yes... this is the way a man should be! He would put all macho men, or a Rowdy Rathod pulling his moustache like an idiot or the chocolate romeos running in Switzerland and UK, on a big shame with his masculinity just by his gestures, which even a real woman would end up desiring in a man!

Here is the actor from who all current actors in Bollywood need to take tuition classes in acting. Next in the line is Richa Chadha as Sardar's gutsy wife...what a performance..she is a dynamite. ..no lady wants to share her husband, but she does and still loves him...depicting a true lioness of a lion! She will definitely win lots of awards for her role. Besides this, all other are almost equally great in their part, but space here does not allow me to write on them. But I will specially mention Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the drug addict son of Sardar, who shows great commanding flares and takes up the move by the end as the promising protagonist for the second part of GoW. He is the new rising sun of bollywood, absolutely in the league of stalwarts like Manoj Bajpai and Irrfan Khan.

Direction ( Anurag Kashyap holds this department as an extraordinary gentleman) and Techies: In this league of extraordinary gentleman, for this department AK has given something for which Indian cinema will always be obliged and proud of. A time when we watch a disgusting Rowdy Rathod making 100 crores, this man has got the guts to raise a world on his own, as an outsider to bollywood camps where he had to face unnecessary struggles, but never compromised on his stand on cinema. Salute you Anurag, salute you! (Continued in comments section.....)