Note: This is no movie for families and kids cannot even stay in the room next to where this is playing. Be warned !
Mario Puzo made an epic of a book and Francis Ford Coppola made a legend of movie out of it. From that moment on numerous film makers, day in and day out and through out the world, hopelessly tried to reinvent the wheel and make a mockery out of the legendary God Father. In India, almost every other film maker want to copy a scene or the other or a dialogue or at least the color pallets. After 40 years of the making of that legend, comes a maker named Anurag Kashyap who is definitely inspired from the book and gives it his own twist with lot of Indian touch. I can firmly say Mario Puzo would have been thrilled at this movie after watching numerous mess ups of his movie especially from Ram Gopal Varma and his camp. Let's dig into the details.
Part 1 travels from 1940s to 1990s traversing through two generations of rivalry and pre and post independence eras of India. There is an attitude that is given to India and that keeps changing over the years along with the story and characters. Manoj Bajpai was the soul of this movie and second soul is the music that can so easily be identified with the era the movie is going through. And Anurag is "The creator". Everything, the characters, the actors, the music, the story and the narration flows so smooth that you are easily glued into the world of Wasseypur immediately. But the only drawback of the movie is that the voice over narration seems a bit rushed sometimes where makers might have thought it is trivial information but audience feel they missed out on some key information. Watch it and get pulled into the exciting world of Wasseypur.
The note on which part 1 ends is exceptional that you would be desperate for watching part 2. Especially with Huma Qureshi. Coming to part 2, Nawazuddin is no Manoj Bajpai of part 1. He tries but somehow he falls short of a stupendous act. Even Huma is just eye candy with no role. This part focuses on just one generation with 3 primary characters Faizal, Perpendicular and Definite. These three characters are etched out brilliantly. Sultan, again in this, does not have any character even though he has a lengthy role in this. Music is just average as opposed to being brilliant like first part. After 30 minutes into the movie you realize that you have seen 1 and half of this movie and no vengeance had been taken from Sardar Khan's family's perspective but only their family members are killed one after the other. It feels dragged towards the middle of the movie but easily filled in by some weird sense of humor of Anurag which you can only understand if you watch the movie. In the last 30 minutes of the movie is when everyone gets killed and movie gets all exciting. The ending though seemed like too much contrived to end in a rather tragedy way.
Over all I felt part 1 was brilliantly made and part 2 lacked the same finesse. And the movie as a whole is one of THE BEST to come out of India in recent times and when I say recent, I mean in last 30 years, in my lifetime.
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