Gangs of Wasseypur is one of the Best Films, But...
Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur didn't register itself as an event in Indian cinema, so much in the time of its release, as much as it did subsequently. On a fundamental level, it changed how we perceive Anurag Kashyap. He has been a master when it comes to restoring the darkness into the glossy edges of Bollywood panorama. He rebuilt a tragedy and the layers underneath with Black Friday, shot his creativity into a euphoric high with Dev-D and dissected the politics of hierarchy in Gulaal. However, Gangs of Wasseypur didn't heighten the gloom in his storytelling- at least that isn't what I believe. It engraved a lot of humanity in the lives of these gangsters. The cinematic substance of the film was a triumph. But that isn't the focus of what I'm writing about at the moment. The sequential inspirations Kashyap took from Francis Ford Coppola and Sam Peckinpah would be for the discussion for some other day. As someone who was born and brought up in Dhanbad, I ...