Gangs of Wasseypur part 1
When a British director ( I forgot his name ) was shown the Raj Kapoor ( Indian director ) movie AAN , at the end of it when he was asked his opinion about it he answered ,'' It just goes AWN and AWN and AWN.....''
He could have well been talking about this film.....
For it certainly goes on and on and on.....
This is certainly the longest movie I have seen in some time .
And if the director wanted to show the futility of attempting revenge in a bloodsoaked dog-eat-dog land where everyone is pointlessly killing each other then he has been certainly effective in that----for the leading actor's ( such a violent character can hardly be called '' hero '' ) attempt to take revenge for a past crime is so tedious and long lasting that you will surely get convinced about its futility towards the end......especially because the whole attempt is unsuccessful in the end .
And in showing this attempted revenge the director has been successful in giving epic treatment to the movie---for the movie spans three generations.....all generations indulging in bloodlust , for such is the character of the badlands that are the coal mines of Bihar.....
The movie begins during British rule and ends in the late twentieth century.....but does it really end ??? for the director says in the end that the story is incomplete---obviously the cycle of revenge and counter-revenge and violence is going the continue , far beyond the span of the movie.....indeed it is a saga without end---the saga of Bihar/ Jharkhand......
The movie is violent , but not as violent as publicised---for in between the bouts of violence the male characters find time for romance with goodlooking women....indeed the leading character finds time to marry two women , the second one being sexier than the first....
Indeed , you cannot show violence all the time in such a lengthy movie.....and in fact all the permutations and combinations in such a long movie cannot be retold here---I am not going to agonize myself by trying to tell the complicated story here.....
What holds the film together is the bravura preformance of Manoj Bajpai---indeed its a role tailormade for his type of acting.....one cannot imagine the film without him.....
There are some killer dialogues which will win whistles and claps , and overall the atmosphere in Bihar is well picturised in the film---but whether these things will be sufficient to take it far at the box office is something that only time will tell.....
My opinion---just about okay.....
Gangs of Wasseypur part 2
In my review of Gangs of Wasseypur part one I had said that the movie goes awn and awn and awn ( on and on and on ).....
After seeing part two I wish it really went awn and awn and oooonnn......
For in part two director Anurag truely delivers.....and how......he delivers by delivering the killer punch.....
If you want to see and indeed understand the meaning of true and real bloodletting you should see the scene in which Faizal Khan kills Ramadhir Singh.....
......And if you want to see what real action means you should watch the whole movie.....
And if you want to see how an actor comes of age you should watch the performance of Nawazuddin Siddiqiue as Faizal Khan in this film.....
If people like Nana Patekar ( in Parinda ) and Manoj Bajpai ( in Satya ) thought that only they could act like real gangsters then they would better watch their backs.....for they have real competition in Nawazuddin......
And if writers of english dictionaries thought that they had completed recording the meaning of words then they better watch the film.....
So what does tangent mean.....??
When a guy has a habit of cutting up a person with a blade in a angle that forms a tangent to his body he is called tangent....
And what does perpendicular mean ???
Simple....when a guy uses his blade to cut up a person in an angle that is perpendicular to his body he is known as perpendicular....
And what does definite mean ??
When a guy has a definite goal to kill someone he is called definite.....
What does Kashmiri sev mean ??
While you were thinking about it , it just exploded.....
For it's a bomb made by terrorists in Kashmir....
And new proverbs come to light....
For example---just like iron cuts iron , an arsehole cuts an arsehole
And new dialogues come to light too....
For example----my hands were tired thinking and lusting for you in jail.....think masturbation
The director pays the ultimate tribute to hindi songs---every funeral procession ( and needless to say there are many funerals ) has accompanying it man singing a sad and famous hindi film song as a tribute to the dead person .....so funny !!
......And every time a mobile rings its ringtone is another famous hindi film song of yore.....the director seems to have lived and breathed hindi films all his life....
But what takes the cake is the sound of bullets banging into bodies , into doors and windows , into walls......bullets fired first from pistols in the earlier part of the movie and then graduating to automatic rifles and then to Israeli Uzis......bullets whose bang bang sound is sweet music to the ears of an aficionado of slam bang action especially in a theater equipped with digital sound.....
But it all ultimately has to end in death---death for many of the characters in the film including females....
......For people who live by the gun die by the gun.....and a story of revenge and gore is to end in a pool of blood.....
But wait !!!....the new generation of killers has been born in this movie....wait till they grow up....just wait.....For who knows....a third edition of the film will work wonders for my aching heart.....
Verdict----calling all the die hard action movie lovers....this one is a must see.....