Gangs of Wasseypur II
A; Action
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureishi, Zeeshan Qadri, Piyush Mishra, Murari Kumar, Tigmanshu Dhulia
Ratings: **½ u00a0(Out of five)

OMG! This one’s such a long film it should have been made into a TV series. They could have easily pulled off an hourly 13-episode show. Definite and Perpendicular could have become household names and our children could have learnt some choice gaalis sitting right at home. Not that one has anything against gaalis, especially since one bit back a few ‘Whathefa…’s while watching the film. Really, towards the end of the film, protagonist Faisal Khan (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) cries defeatedly over the mire of revenge and crime he’s been sucked into. “It shouldn’t have gone this far,” he says. We agree.

Like one of the rickety jeeps in the film, Gangs II continues to load characters and rudely offload them at will on a rather pointless gunshot-ridden journey. True, these are interesting characters; who would have thought of Perpendicular, a blade chewing delinquent teenager? Or Tangent his cowardly chum? Or Iklak the educated linguist con-man? But does the story really need all these people? Not necessarily.u00a0