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Kashyap has plans to make another sequel, "Gangs of Wasseypur 1.5" and has incorporated Zeishan Quad [...]
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The only Indian movie to be included in The Guardian's The 100 best films of the 21st century, ranke [...]
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Despite its grim theme, the film also has an inherent sense of humour that comes quite naturally to [...]
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Was banned in Kuwait and Qatar.
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Received four nominations, including best film and best director, at the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Fest [...]
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Kashyap met Zeishan Quadri (the writer of Gangs of Wasseypur) in 2008, who told him about Wasseypur' [...]
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The film team made a memento consisting of bullets of different era.
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This is Bollywood's first commercial film to feature at the Cannes Film Festival during the Director [...]
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In the film, Sardar Khan marries the Bengali girl but in reality, the woman was maintained as a keep [...]
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vineet Kumar Singh play the role of sons of Richa Chaddha, and Nawazuddin ca [...]
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Kashyap tweeted and revealed that the INR 450 million budget as reported in the media is false.
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Anurag Kashyap wanted to cast Ravi Kishan in the film.After hearing a negative rumor about him he di [...]
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When first hearing Wasseypur's story, Kashyap found it unreal to believe that mafia activity and gan [...]
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In a recent interview, Vicky revealed that he was part of Anurag's Gangs of Wasseypur that hit scree [...]
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Major portions of the film were shot at villages near Bihar.
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The film's pacing is machine-gun relentless, sweeping incoherence and repetitiveness under the carpe [...]
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The film has also been inspired from the story of rivals Shafiq Khan and Surya Dev Singh.
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Manoj Bajpai(Sardar Khan) was roughly killed in the same way in shoot-out at Wadala as he was killed [...]
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Absorbing styles as diverse as those of old-school Italo-American mafia classics a la Coppola, Scors [...]
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In the film, Fazloo is killed and dismembered by Faizal Khan. In real life, Sabir Alam and Faheem Kh [...]
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Assistant director Sohil Shah died in a freak accident during the shoot of the film in Banaras. He f [...]
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The filming style adopted by Anurag Kashyap in bears a striking similarity to the styles of Nurul Ha [...]
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Features a very large cast of Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Bajpayee, Nawasuddin Siddique, Pankaj Tripathi, [...]
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In reality, the mafia's downfall in Dhanbad didn't come from gang wars but rather it came from the d [...]
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Another scene in the movie, where a Muslim girl is kidnapped by Singh's men, has been portrayed conv [...]
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Feature director Tigmanshu Dhulia's acting debut.
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The film received an Adults Only certification from the Indian Censor Board but is still unusually e [...]
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The success party for the first part was held at Escobar in Bandra, Mumbai on Thursday, 5 July, late [...]
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Anurag Kashyap: [hidden camera] Multiple chase sequences on crowded streets, among ordinary people a [...]
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There was no character akin to Shahid Khan.
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Kashyap kept unabashed blood, gore and abuse wherever the scene demands.
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Sardar Khan's death scene is same as Sonny Corleone's death in The Godfather. The main similarities [...]
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The character of Ramadhir Singh is based on Surajdeo Singh.
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In keeping with the language and setup of the film, wall paintings instead of posters, reading "Goli [...]
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Tigmanshu Dhulia (Played as Ramadhir Singh) is the director of famous movies like :Paan Singh Tomar, [...]
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Story spans from the early 1940s to the 2000s.
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Canadian Indo Canadian rapper Horse Powar sampled a song from the film for her song "Hi Everybody".
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Kashyap's use of occasional bursts of music and comedy to punctuate the slowly augmenting tension at [...]
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For the promotion of second part, in several areas of the Delhi and Mumbai, political posters had be [...]
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Most of the slaughter house scenes were single shot takes. After every shot, the actor 'Vipin Sharma [...]
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Both parts of Gangs of Wasseypur together cost just INR 18.4cr to make.
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The movie, as decided in pre-production, was to be released in a single part(not in part1 and part2) [...]
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Anurag Kashyap: [long take] The first shot contains a long take lasting about 10 minutes, where a gr [...]
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The film's soundtrack is heavily influenced by traditional Indian folk songs.
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The movie continues the trend of Anurag Kashyap paying tribute to Quentin Tarantino's directorial st [...]
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The crew promoted a fake electoral campaign through the streets of Mumbai and Delhi to market the se [...]
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In an unusual move for India, the movie was released in two parts, separated by a few months. The sc [...]
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Anurag Kashyap, who co-produced the film with Sunil Bohra, has said that it is his most expensive fi [...]
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The marketing of the film was noted for its uniqueness.
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Vedesh Sookoo song "I Aint Ride No Bicycle:" was remade into "I am a Hunter".
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Qureshi landed this role after director Anurag Kashyap spotted her in a Samsung commercial he was di [...]
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According to Kashyap, to tell the story through a few families is what interested him but that also [...]
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In July 2015, Gangs of Wasseypur 1 & 2 was finally shown at The Cinematheque Theatre, in Vancouver, [...]
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Centered on the coal mafia (Mafia Raj) of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and [...]
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Kashyap's use of dark humour to judiciously propagate violence bears an uncanny similarity to Quenti [...]
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While most music launches in India happen with a big party in a 5-star banquet hall in a Delhi or Mu [...]
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The theme and style is such that the scenes are short in length, several in number and often a serie [...]
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Shooting of film also took place in Chunar.
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Violent as his screenplay is, Kashyap reveals wit while narrating his tale.
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This film made a record by giving so many actors screen time and credits.
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27] The Movie has been dedicated to Sohil Shah as is seen in the opening titles.
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While shooting for the climax,Nawazuddin remembered a childhood incident to bring more reality in hi [...]
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The second part was in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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The slaughter house scenes were actually shot in a slaughter house in Prayagraj. The back story of S [...]
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Sardar Khan name was suggested by Manoj Bajpayee himself instead of Zeeshan Khan.
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According to Bajpayee, the role of Sardar Khan is the most negative role he has done till date.
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In August 2008, London's Curzon Theatre, London was playing Mesrine, a French gangster movie directe [...]
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This film made the acting career of many stars like Nawazuddin, Huma Qureshi, Vineet Kr Singh etc
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The crew promoted a fake electoral campaign through the streets of Mumbai and Delhi to market the se [...]
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As oppose to the film, most of the gang wars were between the gangs of Wasseypur, not with the Singh [...]
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The music composer Sneha Khanwalkar started work on the soundtrack over a year before filming began. [...]
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The character of Faizal Khan is based on Faheem Khan.
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Zeishan Quadri had narrated enough stories to Kashyap, but what really attracted him was not gang wa [...]
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Pankaj Tripathi's first & his greatest negative role. He became well-known for this film and gave mo [...]
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Was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.
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During filming in Varanasi in December 2010, film's chief assistant director Sohil Shah was killed o [...]
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Gamucha, a thin traditional East Indian towel was taken to Cannes and the whole team danced on the s [...]
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Siddiqui and Qureshi made special appearances on the TV serial "Afsar Bitiya" for the promotion of t [...]
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The film finished production in late March 2011, with Anurag Kashyap moving on to direct his next fi [...]
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Fazloo's character is based on Sabir Alam.
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The film's soundtrack is heavily influenced by traditional Indian folk songs tending to be philosoph [...]
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Instead of the usual olive leaves to represent the film festivals participated in, the festivals are [...]
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The film features one of the longest single shot taken. The scene where Sultan and his men attacks t [...]
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In the film's climax, Singh is brutally killed by Faizal but in real life, Singh died of natural cau [...]
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This is Huma Qureshi's first film, and she characterised this as her "dream debut".
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Sardar Khan's son Perpendicular and his friend Tangent are seen watching "Munnabhai MBBS", a popular [...]
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In Part 1, there is a scene which shows young Faizal and Fazlu eating an popcicle outside the cinema [...]
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Music of the film was launched on 23 May.
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In another effective way of building the world of Wasseypur for the audience, a fictitious newspaper [...]
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Chadda revealed in an interview that this role helped her bag 11 film roles.
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Anurag Kashyap never has to resort to extraneous elements like stylised entries, editing patterns or [...]
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The two parts have a whopping 25 songs.
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The scene where Durga is charmed by Sardar Khan over her daily chores and the one where Faizal goes [...]
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The scene featuring a flooded coal mine (just before Sardar Khan is born) is shot in a real coal min [...]
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Bajpai's motivation for doing this role came from the fact that there was "something new" with the c [...]
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The movie chronicles the journey of the saga associated with coal mines.
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There are several differences in the film which contradict actual documented events most notability [...]
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In a pre titles credit, Anurag Kashyap expresses his gratitude to the "Madurai triumvirate" of Bala, [...]
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The character Mohsina played by Huma Qureshi was firstly not in the script and Anurag Kashyap improv [...]
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Anurag had also revealed that the 2008 Tamil movie Subramaniapuram was the inspiration for this movi [...]
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Piyush Mishra and Tigmanshu Dhulia were given the discretion to decide who, among them, would perfor [...]
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Ample black comedy is used to imagine the gang war milieu.
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Anurag Kashyap said he had wanted to make a film on Bihar with the name Bihar for some time but for [...]
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