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From Guneet Monga, the producer of THE LUNCHBOX, the most successful foreign-language movie of 2014 to date in the U.S., GANGS OF WASSEYPUR is director/writer/producer Anurag Kashyap’s ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives – and spectacular deaths – of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by the real-life exploits of local gangs and beginning with the bandit-like career of Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat) in the 1940s, the film follows the ruthless rise of his son Sardar (a brilliant Manoj Bajpayee) and his offspring, the surreally-named Danish, Perpendicular and Definitive Khans and their numerous wives and girlfriends.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR mirrors the tumultuous and explosive growth of modern India with ferocious cinematic intensity. As with Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in THE GODFATHER, it’s the least likely of Sardar’s children – the perpetually stoned Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) – who rises to the top ranks of the Khan crime family, vowing brutal revenge on their longtime nemesis, the wily and seemingly unstoppable Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia). Composer Sneha Khanwalkar’s stunning soundtrack ranks with legends like R.D. Burman, but don’t expect Bollywood-style dance numbers: this is a movie that up-ends every expectation of what great Indian cinema should look (and sound) like.
Original Release
06/22/2012
US Release
10/14/2014
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Manoj Bajpayee | Sardar Khan |
Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Faizal Khan / Faisal Khan |
Tigmanshu Dhulia | Ramadhir Singh |
Richa Chadha | Nagma Khatoon / Nagma |
Reema Sen | Durga |
Piyush Mishra | Nasir Ahmed / Nasir |
Huma Qureshi | Mohsina / Mohsina Hamid |
Jaideep Ahlawat | Shahid Khan |
Vineet Kumar Singh | Danish Khan |
Pankaj Tripathi | Sultan / Sultan Qureshi |
Directors
Writers
Zeishan Quadri, Anurag Kashyap, Akhilesh Jaiswal, Sachin K. Ladia
Cast
Name | Character |
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Manoj Bajpayee | Sardar Khan |
Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Faizal Khan / Faisal Khan |
Tigmanshu Dhulia | Ramadhir Singh |
Richa Chadha | Nagma Khatoon / Nagma |
Reema Sen | Durga |
Piyush Mishra | Nasir Ahmed / Nasir |
Huma Qureshi | Mohsina / Mohsina Hamid |
Jaideep Ahlawat | Shahid Khan |
Vineet Kumar Singh | Danish Khan |
Pankaj Tripathi | Sultan / Sultan Qureshi |
Jameel Khan | Asgar Khan / Asghar |
Zeishan Quadri | Definite |
Aditya Kumar | Perpendicular |
Satyakam Anand | J.P. Singh / JP Singh |
Rajkummar Rao | Shamshad |
Vipin Sharma | Ehsaan Qureshi / Ehsan Qureshi |
Anurita Jha | Shama Parveen |
Faisal Malik | Inspector Gopal Singh |
Sanjay Singh | Fazlu |
Pramod Pathak | Sultana Daku / Shareef Qureshi AKA Sultana Daaku / Badoor Qureshi / Sharif Qureshi |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Shivaji Dasgupta | Executive Producer |
Meraj Shaikh | Executive Producer |
Adi Shankar | Executive Producer |
Anurag Kashyap | Producer |
Apoorva Bakshi | Producer |
Rakesh Bhagwani | Producer |
Prassanth Kumar Chandran | Producer |
Jyoti Kapur Das | Producer |
Maitreyee Dasgupta | Producer |
Vikram Malhotra | Producer |
Guneet Monga | Producer |
Ajay Rai | Producer |
Shubh Shivdasani | Producer |
Rukshana Tabassum | Producer |
Sunil Bohra | Producer |