His character takes over his father’s crime empire in Wasseypur. First previewed at the recent 65th Cannes International Film Festival and shown back to back with part 1, in part 2 the focus shifts to Manoj Bajpai’s son Faisal Khan played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Kashyap has announced the release of part 2 on 8th August and its trailer is just as intriguing and exciting. With a total budget of around Rs 18.4 crore and the second part still to come, you would definitely call that a winning proposition.
Since its release on 22nd June, the film has earned Rs 23 crore from India alone. Second part to Gangs of Wasseypur set for releaseĪnurag Kashyap with his cast and crew recently celebrated the box office success of Gangs of Wasseypur. The ‘avant-garde’ effort No Smoking (2007), of course, always struck me as babble but was there something lacking in the other two films that I recollected them so little? Anurag Kashyap’s chief strength is his sharp eye for the milieu but his films also seem curiously blank – as if there was little else underneath surface. I then took stock of what his films meant to me but, curiously enough, while Black Friday (2004) still largely remained in my memory, I retained only a few scattered images from Dev D (2009) and Gulaal (2009). Since I have been so drawn to his films that I have journeyed to see them, I was quite excited when Gangs of Wasseypur was announced. Every other filmmaker’s efforts only merit DVD viewing. He managed the feat of constructing a 360 feet long,Īkshay Kumar to hip-hop with 'Did Li'l Masters 2' finalists - NewsĪmong all of India’s filmmakers today Anurag Kashyap is perhaps the only one whose films insist on being watched in a multiplex. Set in 1960, the film tells the inspiring real story of a man who single-handedly, armed just with a hammer and chisel, worked day and night for 22 years and broke a mountain. It is the untold story of a hero, who achieved the unachievable, and conquered the unconquerable, benefitting generations from his selfless act. Mountain Man is a humble tribute to the power of the human will. The film was announced earlier today in Mumbai on the occasion of the 'Punyatithi' of this noble man. Mountain Man is the soul stirring story of the amazingly inspiring Dashrath Manjhi-famous for being the man who broke a mountain for love. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who impressed one and all by his fiery act as Faisal Khan in Gangs of Wasseypur, has been signed to play the main lead role in Ketan Mehta's next film titled Mountain Main. Team Yahoo wins 'Did Dance ke Superkids' - News Thus far she’s gotten mixed reviews for her performance however her appearance impressed us enough to warrant a position on this countdown. Just when we thought she’d get the ‘Bhatt girl’ title she surprised us in the last release, a Prakash Jha directorial. She had one of the busiest debut years with not one but three films, Jannat 2, Raaz 3 and Chakravyuh. Esha won Miss Photogenic in the Femina Miss India contest in 2007 and featured in the Kingfisher Calendar in 2010, before being spotted and starring in her debut film. 5 we have the dusky beauty who won everyone’s heart with the notorious ‘serial kisser’ in not one of but two films in her very first year. Here are the Top 5 Female Debutants for the year 2012. Another year gone by and another lot of impressive newbies have arrived on the Bollywood scene to make their mark.