Ranked #11 of 100
Gangs of Wasseypur
गैंग्स ऑफ़ वासेपुर · 2012
Five-plus hours, three generations, one coal town, and a revenge cycle that eats everyone. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
- Director
- Anurag Kashyap
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadha, Huma Qureshi
Why it's at number 11
It permanently changed what Hindi film dialogue, casting and music were allowed to sound like.
Five-plus hours, three generations, one coal town, and a revenge cycle that eats everyone. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
Gangs of Wasseypur sits in the 2010s alongside Masaan and Haider — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Anurag Kashyap — also responsible for Black Friday, Dev.D, Mukkabaaz.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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