He is played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, an impressive actor displaying effortless intensity during each of adult Faizal’s perpetually-stoned, violent acts. One character, Faizal Khan, just a youth in Part I, becomes one of the core characters of Part II, along with several of his brothers. The cycle of violence proves timeless in spite of a developing India.įortunately, here the violence is very compelling. Technology, like pages and mobiles do factor into gang activity later in the game but the primary struggle here tends to rely on physicality and bullets, lots and lots of bullets. On a simple visual level, the urban environment hardly develops with the passage of 70 years. Unfortunately for the characters, the vibrant underworld never seems to change. But the richness of the world allows each major player’s motivations to be fleshed out by their experiences or through the exposition of classic Bollywood songs. It is possible that a few minutes pertaining to some tangent players could be shaved off given the sheer number of characters involved, sons, uncles, wives, associates, friends and rivals, there arises the occasional difficulty following every relationship. The run time allows for narrative depth for each Khan and many others, but its functioning mostly accommodates action. After the demise of the Khan patriarch, his survivor’s machinations against Singh become a decades-long pursuit for revenge.
Singh’s desire to maintain his reign over the Dhanbad coal mine region of eastern India leads him to kill his former muscle-man, the potential usurper Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat). The central narrative is of the rivalry between one family, the Khans, and a corrupt politician Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia). Gangs is a tale of three generations of ruthless gangsters, merciless cutthroats and muscular extortionists, narrated by the observant Nasir (Piyush Mishra) and beginning in the British colonial-era just prior to independence. Even by Bollywood standards, Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur is lengthy, with the official run-time clocking in at 319 minutes, nearly 100 minutes longer than domestically well-received Lagaan.
Save for the two-part Nymphomaniac, there are few, if any, Hollywood or semi-mainstream Western films I can recall that exceed five hours in length.
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