![]() In the movie’s’s main storyline, Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpayee), a bandit whose career has been converging on flat-out organized crime, comes to realize that his coal-miner father was ordered killed decades earlier by a mine owner, Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia), who is now a strutting bully of a local godfather, with several sleek politicians in his pocket. Thanks to Bachchan, this is behavior that, the mob guys realize, their culture now expects of them. The explosive opening moments of the late Yash Chopra’s mega-hit Bachchan vehicle “Trishul” (“Trident,” 1978) play out in a theater for several of this film’s characters, who afterwards earnestly discuss the fine points of a life dedicated single-minded to revenge. ![]() “Gangs” is partly modeled upon, and at key moments knowingly refers to, the culture-shifting revenge melodramas of “Angry Young Man” Amitabh Bachchan that upended Bollywood cinema in the 1970s. ![]() It is also one of those rare movies that acknowledge the influence of movies and other forms of pop culture in shaping the values and motivations of its characters. It manages to keep a dozen major characters and their agendas clear while rarely pausing to take a breath. The astonishing Hindi actor Manoj Bajpayee has his best role in years in Anurag Kashyap’s “Gangs Of Wasseypur.” A five-hour epic mob drama in two parts depicting a decades-long intra-Muslim vendetta, “Gangs” is headlong, hand-held, violent entertainment. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |