Gangs of Wasseypur

Gangs of Wasseypur
Directed by	Anurag Kashyap
Produced by	Atul Shukla; Anurag Kashyap; Sunil Bohra; Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Written by	Zeishan Quadri; Akhilesh; Sachin Ladia; Anurag Kashyap; Akhilesh Jaiswal
Starring	Manoj Bajpai; Jaideep Ahlawat; Nawazuddin Siddiqui; Huma Qureshi; Tigmanshu Dhulia; Vineet Kumar Singh; Piyush Mishra; Pankaj Tripathi; Richa Chadda; Reemma Sen
Music by	Sneha Khanwalkar (soundtrack); G. V. Prakash Kumar (score)
Cinematography	Rajeev Ravi
Edited by	Shweta Venkat
Production; company	Anurag Kashyap Films ; Jar Pictures Elle Driver Productions
Distributed by	Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Release date	May 2012 (Cannes); 22 June 2012 (India); ; ; ;
Running time	319 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Gangs of Wasseypur (stylised as Gangs of ???????) is a 2012 Indian two-part crime film, produced and directed by Anurag Kashyap, and written by Kashyap and Zeishan Quadri. Centered on the coal mafia (Mafia Raj) of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance between three crime families, the film features an ensemble cast, with Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadda and Tigmanshu Dhulia in the major roles. Its story spans from the early 1940s to the 2000s. Both parts were originally shot as a single film measuring a total of 319 minutes and screened at the 2012 Cannes Directors' Fortnight^[6] but since no Indian theatre would volunteer to screen a five plus hour film, it was divided into two parts for the Indian market.

Kashyap plans to make another sequel, Gangs of Wasseypur 1.5 and has incorporated Zeishan Quadri as the director of the third part.^[7] Anurag had also revealed that the 2008 Tamil movie Subramaniapuram was the inspiration for this movie series.^[8]

Cast

Manoj Bajpai as Sardar Khan, a crime lord who wants to avenge the death of his father, Shahid Khan.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Faizal Khan, the main protagonist and Sardar's second son.
Huma Qureshi as Mohsina Hamid, Faizal's wife
Piyush Mishra as Nasir, Sardar's uncle
Jameel Khan as Asgar Khan, Sardar's cousin
Jaideep Ahlawat as Shahid Khan, Sardar's father and the patriarch of the Khan family.
Tigmanshu Dhulia as Ramadhir Singh, the main antagonist and a criminal cum politician, who gets both Shahid and Sardar killed.
Satya Anand as J.P Singh, Ramadhir's son
Richa Chadda as Nagma Khatoon, Sardar's first wife
Zeishan Quadri as Definite Khan, Sardar's fourth son
Reema Sen as Durga, Sardar's second wife
Pankaj Tripathi as Sultan Qureshi, one of Sardar's enemies, who later kills Sardar.
Vipin Sharma as Ehsaan Qureshi, Sultan's father
Vineet Kumar Singh as Danish Khan, Sardar's eldest son
Aditya Kumar as Babu "Babua/Perpendicular" Khan, Sardar's third son
Anurita Jha as Shama Parveen, Danish's wife and Sultan's sister
Murari Kumar as Guddu, a small time goon
Yashpal Sharma as Occasional Singer (Guest Appearance)
Rajkummar Rao as Shamshad Alam, an ally of Faizal who later betrays him for Ramadhir, only to be later killed by Faizal.
Shankar as Shankar
Hazarat Ali as Definite Khan (young)
Tilak Raj Mishra as Sanjeev
Syed Khan as Iqbal Khan
Naman Tiwari as Ajay Singh (young)
Aniket Raj as Vijay Singh (young)
Jaikumar Solanki as Jatin
Sanjay Varma as Inspector Udayveer Singh
Sandeep Arora as ACP Jadhav
Pramod Pathak as Sultana Daku
Harish Khanna as Yadav
Raj Singh as Thakur
Vicky Nanavare as Parallel Khan, Sardar's fifth son
Uncredited kid as Firoz Khan, Faizal's son