Long ago i read a novel called Confessions of Sulthana Daku written by Sujit Saraf.It is the story of a bhagi or rebel who terrorized British India.But never knew his family maintained his so called legacy and followed Sulthana Daku into a life of crime.

Well, i remembered the novel when i watched this amazing movie called Gangs of Wasseypur which tells the story of coal mafia that reportedly existed in Dhanbad, Bihar of Northern India.British started the coal industry and after independence some powerful  Jamindar's continues the business which gives birth to some of the most powerful gangster families.This movie is all about the journey of mafia families from 1940's to present day,a five hour biographic movie which will be released in India into 2 parts roughly 150 minutes each.This movie is not for entertainment seeking audience but for people who actually care for cinema and who believes cinema is more of an art than a just a business.I believe people who admires the work of great film makers like Martin Scorsese,Quentin Tarantino,Sergio Leone,David Fincher,Coppola or even Akira Kurosowa will watch this Indian master piece.I have always been a fan of Anurag Kashyap,liked most of his movies but this one is epic,a magnum opus.It is not regular craps like Ready,Dabbang or Rowdy Rathore which is insulting people's intelligence,this cinema can be compared with the likes of Godfather or any other such landmark films.This is not a local Indian masala cinema,this is a true world cinema made in India.

Anurag's style of film making has a similarity to Quentin Tarantino's style of film making,his use of raw locations,dark humor,violence,sex hard hitting dialogues,detailed characterization,and the way of story telling is very much similar to Tarantino's films.I love this kind of film makers or people who swims against the tide.When whole of Bollywood is busy making masala films,this guy dared to swim against the tide.

Manoj Bajpayee,a product of Ram Gopal Verma's Factory(Even the director is a sisya of RGV) gave a stellar performance yet again.I remember his great performances in Sathya and then in Shool,Pinjar and very recently in Rajneeti.Not just him every single actors in the movie breathed life into the characters.No wonder most of the actors in the movie are stage actors.Personally i liked the performances of Richa Chadda(again a theatre actor),who played role Najma,foul mouthed wife of Sardar Khan played by Manoj Bajpai.It needs lot of home work and guts to play an uneducated village girl from Bihar.Then there is Tigmanshu Dhulia  as Ramdhir Singh,another great performance in the movie.Reema Sen as Durga,too gives stellar performance.And eagerly waiting to watch Nawazuddin Siddiqui in part 2,who has won accolades for his performance in this film.

Finally,this movie is for people who is fed up of watching typical Bolly flicks where hero flaunts his 6 pack abs and where heroine shows her cleavage (who cares porn is just a click away) and who is fed up of heroines saying i kissed the hero so many number of times in the movie and it was so hard(as if they deserve Oscar for kissing)People who watch movies just for time pass can stay away from the movie.