Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Feb 2, 2023 · 52m · transcript

One five-hour gangster epic, split in two because no distributor would touch it whole. That's the story behind "Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1," Anurag Kashyap's sprawling, decades-spanning saga of a real coal mafia in Dhanbad, India. Andy and Pete kick off a two-part series with a film built on shifting alliances, a vengeance-driven patriarch, and clear debts to Scorsese and Coppola, all filtered through a setting and texture that feels entirely its own.

Both hosts needed a rewatch just to keep the sprawling ensemble straight, and they dig into how Kashyap keeps a decades-long story moving…