Gangs of Wasseypur: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Gangs of Wasseypur is an epic crime drama shown in 2 parts (5 hours) that follows a feuding mafia family over six decades (1941 – 2009). It is set in Dhanbad, India. Dhanbad is a rural region and the scrap-trade is serious business. The movie follows the dreams of the characters who have little schooling but dream of being gangsters, dreams that they fuel with their obsession with traditional Hindi cinema. Kashyap says he moved the entire cast on foot miles around the film locations over the course of filming to capture different settings.GOW stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Huma Qureshi, Manoj Bajapyee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadda andRaima Sen.

Kashyap describes the film as “a Bollywood-influenced gangster epic, part Western, part documentary.” “It is a film that almost didn’t get made.”

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“These people grow up wanting to be gangsters, they don’t go to school or colleges, they watch Bollywood,” he told AFP. “Everyone has a false sense of film screen heroism that they follow.”

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Peddlers: Cannes Critic’s Week

Kashyap’s production company AKFPL (Anurag Kashyap Film Private Limited), supports small budget indie films like Peddlars, which he coproduced and is also being shown at Cannes. Peddlers is a crime thriller starring Gulshan Devaiah, Kriti Malhotra and Nishikant Kamat.  This is Indian writer/director Vasan Bala’sfeature film debut. Bala is 33-years old. This is an experimental film and Kashyap says he was surprised and delighted with its selection for competition for this year’s Camera d’Or . Crowd-sourcing via Facebookhelped fund the movie (Hindustanitimes). Vasan Bala has previously worked with Kashyap on Dev D and with director Michael Winterbottom on Trishna. The City of Mumbai is a main character in the film that is the setting for the intersection of three people’s lives. “the people who pick films for international film festivals have an idea of India that is more like Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Limited (2007) than anything else. The three films selected this year are a great step forward in changing the way the west looks at Hindi cinema. If nothing else the programmers will look at some really interesting films from India.”

Moira Romano
                                   Gautam Chintamani Hindustntimes News

Selected links to News for Anurag Kashyap’s Films:

myETVmedia interview with Kashyap at TIFF

https://myetvmedia.com/feature/events/tiff/anurag-kashyap-that-girl-in-yellow-boots/

myETVmedia interview with Kalki Koechlin at TIFF

https://myetvmedia.com/feature/events/tiff/kalki-koechiln-that-girl-in-yellow-boots/

myETVmedia review That Girl In Yellow Boots TIFF