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As much of an anti-Bollywood film as one could imagine, revolutionary filmmaker Q's Gandu (Hindi slang for Asshole) is a deliriously frantic, music-infused look at one poor young man and his dreams of becoming a rap star. Excitable Gandu lives in Kolkata. Poor, he survives by stealing spare change from the trousers of a man his prostitute mother services. Gandu's lives to a rapper, and finds a comrade-in-song with another young man, the Bruce Lee-loving Rickshaw. Together they sing, drink, do drugs, wander the city and collectively dream of success. When Gandu wins big in the lottery all his dreams seem to come true. Or do they? Told in fragmented scenes with pulsating music, the film is surreal, wild, weird, unpredictable, and sexually graphic, Gandu is a startlingly bold and wildly entertaining example of new Indian filmmaking, and which ironically is banned in India.
Original Release
10/29/2010
US Release
10/29/2010
Cast
Name | Character |
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Anubrata Basu | Gandu |
Joyraj Bhattacharya | Ricksha / Rickshaw driver, |
Rituparna Sen | Kaali / The Angel / Hooker / The Hooker / Girl in the café |
Kamalika Banerjee | Gandu's mother / Kamalika |
Shilajit Majumdar | Dasbabu / Gandu's mother's lover |
Soumyajit Majumdar | |
Masum Billah Nahid | Brihonnola |
Ahmed Raza | Gandu |
Qaushiq Mukherjee | Director |
Directors
Writers
Qaushiq Mukherjee, Surojit Sen
Cast
Name | Character |
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Anubrata Basu | Gandu |
Joyraj Bhattacharya | Ricksha / Rickshaw driver, |
Rituparna Sen | Kaali / The Angel / Hooker / The Hooker / Girl in the café |
Kamalika Banerjee | Gandu's mother / Kamalika |
Shilajit Majumdar | Dasbabu / Gandu's mother's lover |
Soumyajit Majumdar | |
Masum Billah Nahid | Brihonnola |
Ahmed Raza | Gandu |
Qaushiq Mukherjee | Director |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dipankar Chaki | Executive Producer |
Malik Sam Hayat | Producer |
Celine Loop | Producer |
Qaushiq Mukherjee | Producer |
Anirban Sengupta | Producer |
Dipankar Chaki | Producer |