The cast and crew of 'Gangs of Wasseypur' celebrated the 10th anniversary of the film’s release on Wedne🐈sday and described it as “iconic” and a “modern c♌lassic” that gave the Indian cinema a host of new talent.
Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the two-part intergenerational rev🐼enge saga 'Gangs of Wasseypur' 🅰received critical acclaim upon its release with mostly positive reviews and was commercially successful as well.
Set in Wasseypur, a small town near Dhanbad in Jharkhand, the film series chronicles the story of the coal mafia spread across three generations of a family entan🔥gled in crime, extortion, and murder. Itꦅ starred Manoj Bajpayee in the lead and the then-budding actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadha, Huma Qureshi, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, and Jaideep Ahlawat.
Chadha, who p⭕layed the feisty matriarch Nagma Khatun and Sardar Khan’s first wife in the films, shared a short throwback video clip of the promotions of the movie on Instagram and said 'Gangs of Wasseypur' changed not just the landscape of Indian cinema but her life too.
From writers to actors, 'Gangs of Wasseypur' made a star out of e♏veryone who was part of the film, said “The B𝓡roken News” star Ahlawat.
“It is an iconic film that gave a new form to Indian cinema. The director was already a big star then but this film made stars out of writers, actors, everyone. Alဣl of them went on to do some great work ahead. That film proved to be very lucky for all of us. The name of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ will be remembered till the tim🃏e people talk about Indian cinema,” the actor, who played the original patriarch Shahid Khan and father of Sardar Khan (Bajpayee), told PTI.
Co-written by Kashyap and Zeishan Quadri, the first part of 'Gangs of Wasseypur' was released on June 22, 2012, and the second part hit the screen🤪s on August 8, 2012. The soundt🍰rack was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar and Piyush Mishra with lyrics penned by Mishra and Varun Grover.
Kashyap and Bajpayee both shared several fan posts about the film🐼 on th🐓eir Instagram Stories.
Mishra, who also starred in th🥂e film as Nasir Ahmed, expressed his excitement for 10 years of the movie.
Quotable dialogues such as ‘Baap Ka, Dada Ka, Bhai Ka Sabka Badla Lﷺega Re, Tera Faizal’, ‘Tumse Na Ho Payega’, and ‘Hazrat Hazrat’, Qureshi’s ‘permission’ scene and songs ‘O Womaniya’, ‘Ik Bagal’ and ‘Kaala Rey’ helped 'Gangs of Was🥃seypur' further cement its cult status.
The film was screened in its entirety at🧸 the 2012 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, becoming one of the only Hindi-language films to achieve this feat, and received an overwhelm🃏ing response at various film festivals across the globe.
Jai Mehta, who along with Neeraj Ghayw🌠an and Vicky Kaushal, served as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wassepur', said heও owes his career to the film’s director.
Last month, Grover and Qureshi marked the 10th anniversary of the film’s premiere a🌟t the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
“Ten years to the world premiere of a film that opened gates to this industry for many of us. GANGS OF WASSEYPUR will always be the m𝐆ost special film of my career. The trust @anuragkashyap10 put in his team of mostly newcomers was so liberating that I still keep looking for that kind of good faith-based collaboration in everything I do,” Grover had written in an Instagram post.
Qureshi, who made her debut with 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' had also thanked Kashyap on soc🌸ial media for giving her a brea🌌k.
“My first film, the first time I saw myself on the big screen, and my first tim🐠e at Cannes. It was a crazy special day indeed… Thank u @anuragkashyap72 for giving me this film AND a film career… and believing in me when no one did. Today so many people who have been part of that film are doing so well… can’t believe how we made this film and had so much fun doing it.” The film series also featured Tigmanshu Dhulia, Reema Sen, Vineet Kumar Singh, Quadri, and Jameel Khan.
[With Inputs from PTI]
