PATNA:. "Gangs of Wasseypur",Anurag Kashyap's upcoming production, is reportedly based on real life accounts of gang rivalry in the coal mining town of Dhanbad, now in Jharkhand. The coal mafia here is believed to be more powerful than that of the Mumbai underworld.
Kashyap will be in the city on Thursday for the launch of the film's title song, "Jiya ho Bihar ke lala, jiya ho hazaar saal. Tani nachi ke, tani gaayi ke, tani naachi gaayi ke sab ke man bahlava ho bhaiya", which he wants to dedicate to Bihar. "I thought it's only proper that we launch this song in Patna and not anywhere else. I will be speaking more about it on Thursday," said the award-winning director-producer, who has made films like Black Friday, Dev D and Gulaal.
The song talks about Bihar and wishes it a long life. Well-known singer Manoj Tiwari has lent his voice to the song. Tiwari is a popular Bhojpuri singer and actor. "I was overwhelmed when I got the offer," said the singer. Sneha Khanwalkar has composed the music.
Kashyap, who makes his foray into mainstream commercial cinema with "Gangs of Wasseypur", said he is confident the film and the song will be appreciated by everyone, especially the people of Bihar.
Ah, finally. The way Viacom18, the producer of Gangs of Wasseypur, was reluctant to share even on location images of the film after the Cannes announcement, we were thinking if they were going to lay some golden eggs.
Loot, coal mines, volatile people in volatile land, zindagi ka ek-e maksad – badla, jail, chop shop, Tishu, Bihar ke lala, cuss words, Richa attacking the same man who has been killing everyone, sex, goggles-wala-pyaar,
dhoom-dhaam, more cuss words, more earthy and punchy dialogues, more
abuses and some more dhaam-dhaam. And everything is inherited! E toh poora ka poora dabang hai – abki badke Kashyap ki baari.
But why is the text font so bland? Bad font always bores me.
As far as the trailer goes, this is as
mainstream as it can be. But i think the trailer serves more masala than
the film will offer. Might be wrong. But Kashyap without his
indulgences? Jiyo o Bihar ke lala. The trailer doesn’t tell you
much about the film but it gives the ambiance and the mood of the film
and tells you what to expect – you connect the dots. And if you can’t,
scroll down for the synopsis.
My fav bit – Pankaj Tripathy. Bahut-e kamaal ke actor hai. Agle Yashpal Sharma hai jo hame bahut-ey pasand hai.
Superb art work. Like the colours and the
treatment. But why such a bad finish? The film posters on the right and
left hand side looks so weird. As if at the last moment they asked some
intern to put two posters. Just doesn’t gel with the rest.
And now the official synopsis…
Towards the end of colonial India, Shahid
Khan loots the British trains, impersonating the legendary Sultana
Daku. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh’s colliery,
only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the
turn of the decade, Shahid’s son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to
get his father’s honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
In contemporary times, the weed addicted grandson, Faizal Khan, wakes up
to this vengeance that his family has inherited. Staying true to its
real life influences, the film explores this revenge saga through the
socio-political dynamic in erstwhile Bihar (North India), in the coal
and scrap trade mafia of Wasseypur, through the imprudence of a place
obsessed with mainstream ‘Bollywood’ cinema.
The film stars Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin
Siddiqui, Jaideep Ahlawat, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aditya Kumar, Reemma
Sen, Richa Chadda, Huma Qureshi, Piyush Mishra and Syed Zeeshan Qadri.
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