‘Uh Awww’!ĭirector, Anurag Kashyap’s culmination to this gang-saga is as bloody as the first (if not more) yet it’s an easier watch. Or even better, every time Faizal’s spirit tempers down, Mohsina sweetly rocks him to her Bollywood lullaby. It’s as real and raw as Faizal telling his love interest, Mohsina (Huma Qureshi) who’s addicted to everything Bollywood, ‘Main tumhare saath sex karna chahta hoon’, while she watches Mamta Kulkarni seduce Akshay Kumar on TV. On the lighter side, amidst all the blood-thirst, there’s some ishq-vishq too (no, the location doesn’t move to Cape Town, and no Parisian stylists and designers are flown down). Soon this revenge riot turns into a ruthless rampage, through dealings in illegal scrap trade, election rigging and hooliganism. And no amount of arsenal is enough to quench this blood-lust. His addiction is now ‘blood’ - Ramadhir Singh’s (Tigmanshu Dhulia) blood. He takes over as head of the family, and catapults into becoming the most powerful and dreaded man of Wasseypur.
After a series of shocking killings of his kin (mourning to the tunes of brass-bands playing ‘Yaad teri aayegi’ with jhankar beats), and his mother’s (Richa Chaddha)forceful instigation, the pothead ‘snorts’ out of his stupor, and gets ‘cracking’, literally. Faizal Khan (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), son of Sardar Khan (played by Manoj Bajpai in ‘GOW I’) inherits an unforgiving past, where his father was gruesomely cut down by a rival gang. With every shade of red, black and grey – deeper and bolder. More gangs and more bangs (some pistols firing from lungi covered groins) and more man-power. Booming guns and metal-shredded innards spilling gut onto the streets.
Movie Review: For those who like their celluloid hard and bloody and full of machismo, with an overdose of bodies, butchering and bloody-bravado, welcome to blood-fest – Round Two! This time it’s double the dollops of gore two much. Sardar Khan’s sons are at war with Ramadhir Singh’s men and the knives clash and the bullets flash till either drops dead. All this make a nice, superbly tasty biryani and the credit can only go the masterchef Mr.Anurag Kashyap.Story: It’s the sequel and the final chapter in the bloody lives of the avenging ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Sneha Khawalker's rockingtingly superb music brings a whole new level of excitement in the film and Rajeev Ravi's cinematography is very very efficient, sprinkled with quite a few shots of sheer brilliance. GOW is a superb film which needs to be watched by anyone and everyone who has the slightest of respect and love for films and filmmaking. By repeatingly mentioning 'The Godfather' I am not trying to take away anything from GOW. Manoj Bajpayee's character is quite akin to much more ruthless version of Don Vito Corleone played by Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather'. And final cherry on the acting caked is Nawazzuddin as a vulnerable young lad who is basically a romantic at heart but is getting transformed into a ruthless gangster much like Michael Corleone in the Godfather series. Manoj Bajpayee is rocking and superbly supported by a fabulous Richa Chadda, Reema Sen and Piyush Mishra. Mr.Anurag Kashyap has brought us something that can be categorized with the likes of 'The Godfather'. 'Gangs of Wasseypur' is a visceral epic! Not the kind of regular rubbish that is churned out every now and then.