![]() Unfortunately for Shahid, Ramadhir finds out about his muscle-man's intentions and has him summarily whacked. ![]() Sneaky Shahid understands this too, and starts plotting quietly to topple Ramadhir Singh's burgeoning empire. After India gains independence, he becomes the muscle for a corrupt mine supervisor named Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia) who understands that controlling the coal is the key to power. When the actual robber finds out, Shahid's men are killed and he leaves town for a nearby coal-mining city. His grandfather Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat) gets his underworld start by robbing trains, using the stolen identity of a better-known and widely feared robber to get things done. ![]() Admittedly, some of the political logistics within the story can get confusingly twisty but, for the most part, the film succeeds beautifully in emulating Coppola's mixture of grand narrative sweep and intimate family drama.Īfter a Martin Scorsese-esque flash-forward to a 2004 failed assassination attempt on racketeer Faizal Khan (Nawazuddin Siddiqui, The Lunchbox), Gangs of Wasseypur takes us back to the 1940s and the beginning of Khan's criminal lineage. ![]() The compulsively watchable five-and-a-half-hour epic, Gangs of Wasseypur (originally released theatrically in India in two halves, à la Kill Bill), attempts to capture the gravitas and grandeur of American gangster epics like Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films while fictionalizing a decades-spanning crime family feud in a small area of Eastern India.
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