Gangs of Wasseypur isn't necessarily realistic-instead, it's a glossy, gory soap opera that goes over the top early and often, mirroring, realizing, and satirizing the outsized, outrageous gangster-movie fantasies of its characters.

| Mar 27, 2020

Gangs Of Wasseypur is a sprawling, exuberant, ferociously ambitious piece of film making.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2015

One of the most ambitious gangster films ever made, and quite possibly one of the best.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 19, 2015

It's a story about charismatic killers, men we love to hate, characters who are depraved, ennobled and finally doomed by their disregard for ordinary human decency and their devotion to an endless cycle of violent retribution.

| Jan 19, 2015

Impressively, "Gangs of Wasseypur" manages its sprawling story lines deftly and maintains a brisk pace throughout its daunting length.

| Jan 16, 2015

But what makes Gangs one of the rare recent Indian mainstream movies to achieve crossover exposure is the way that it intersects with and echoes other international variants on gangster themes.

| Jan 16, 2015

A frequently spectacular achievement: five hours - and then some - of gliding camera moves, brutal action and dizzying revenge plotting, often set to a peppy pop music backbeat.

| Jan 15, 2015

Even at this running time, the film dips into decades but doesn't dig deeply into lives.

| Jan 13, 2015

This insane masterpiece shows the self-destructive properties of myth making and how they overlap with the downfall of a community damned from the beginning of time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 13, 2015

Gangs of Wasseypur is, then, an adrenalin shot of a film, powered along by an inventive score by Sneha Khanwalkar that's a grab-bag of diverse genres including north Indian folk, electronica and even Indo-Caribbean reggae.

| Jan 12, 2015

Kashyap's direction is ferocious and mesmerizing, deftly balancing hundreds of characters, story lines and bloodshed that never apologizes or slows down.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 31, 2014

Lawlessness, political corruption and family intrigues all combine to reveal a raw, bloodthirsty and blistering side of the country that few in the west will otherwise see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2013

A star is born in Anurag Kashyap. Blistering, audacious and if anything... just too darn short.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2013

The storytelling is brisk and the language and violence are surprisingly frank for popular Indian cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2013

Even with a tapestry of more than a dozen central characters, the screenplay is structured in such a way that half of them are granted their own chapters, so their personalities, foibles and mixed-up feelings toward each other emerge ...

Full Review | Jun 8, 2012

A dizzying explosion of an Indian gangster film, whose epic structure and colorful, immoral killers capture the imagination for over five hours.

| May 24, 2012