On a very
occasions are the sequels much better than the first installment. This is one.
When Sardar Khan
meets his gory end at the end of the first film, viewers are left wondering as
to how the second part can hold the promise shown by the first, when the main
tour de force now out of the story. All these doubts are swept away a few
minutes into the second part as Faizal Khan steps effortlessly into Sardar
Khan’s place.
The film starts
with Sardar Khan’s funeral, and two of his assailants being bumped off by his
elder son Danish. A further ten minutes into the film, Danish himself is gunned
down . This is a rude awakening for the other son Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui)
from his marijuana induced stupor, who begins by killing his friend ,a local
politician who had been a co
planner of Sardar’s murder and the co
assailant of Danish. He swiftly follows
by gunning down the remaining killers of his father and brother and Wasseypur
now has a new crime lord. He makes a conditional arrangement with MLA Ramadhir
Singh, the man who has defacto been the cause of deaths of his own father and
brother so that the local administration
does not come in the way of his illegal activities. With the help of this
truce, Faizal makes the gang into a crime syndicate, ruling the town with an
iron hand having gone from Kattas to Kalashnikovs and having a cut in
everything from scrap sales to government contracts. He seems to be
unstoppable, his only weakness being his lust for easy money in copious amounts
which plays the major role in his eventual end.
Enter Definite
(Zeeshan Qadri), Sardar Khan’s son by other marriage who will prove to be
Faizal’s nemesis. Having grown up under Ramadhir’s influence, his attitude is
both of contempt and awe for Faizal. He gets into Faizal’s gang and quickly
rises through it, but he is also in touch with Ramadhir to do his bidding in
weakening the Khan household and having their empire to himself. He does
everything to please Faizal, including carrying out a deadly attack on Shamshad
Alam (Rajkumar Yadav), a local businessman and collaborator with Faizal who had
double crossed Faizal and got him arrested. Ramadhir gets another mole to infiltrate Faizal’s gang, who
initially makes him great profit as far as bagging govt contracts, causing him
to ignore Definite and Definite in turn gets embittered and starts dismantling
Faizal’s network, with the help of Ramadhir and JP, while being a part of it. In the end, it is
revealed that JP and Definite have an agenda of their own as Ramadhir is as big
a nuisance for his son JP as Faizal.
Much has been
written about Nawazuddin Siddiquis great performance but the surprise package of this
film is as in the first, Tigmanshu Dhulia as Ramadhir Singh and Zeeshan Qadri (also
the writer) as Definite. Rest of the
cast is brilliant as well with Richa Sharma effortlessly playing the role of
the sixty year old Nagma . Pankaj Tripathi as Sultan Qureshi, Piyush Mishra as Farhan, Aditya Kumar as Perpendicular and Satya Pal JP are great as
well in their short time on the screen. Devoid of stars, it gives us pleasures
of pure acting performances.
The film
provides many comic reliefs in between the gore that is spilled like the abuse
laced conversation between the assailants who are going to carry out a hit on
Sultan to the funny moments between Faizal and his wife Mohsina (Huma Qureshi).
On the other end are chilling sequences like local shopkeepers pooling in
resources to give a ransom for the murder of the Faizal’s school going brother
Perpendicular, who has been looting their shops or that of Sultan, who coolly
shoots his own sister, Danish’s widow
when he goes for an all out attack on Faizal’s remaining family.
The sequel
scores over the first part because unlike the first, it does not have to build
up the background of the story and can get on with it straightaway. Earthy
expletive laced dialogues seem more realistic than the eloquent urdu laced
utterances of conventional Bollywood fare. Simple but effective dialogues like Ramadhir
Singh explaining how people will continue to remain c***** as long as there are
films are memorable and that itself is the USP of the film, realism and showing
us an India which we conveniently choose to ignore from our bubble wrapped
surroundings. The film does have its weak links like over characterization
(over 300 speaking parts in both the films) and being a little lengthy and detailed.
And last but not
the least, Sneha Khanwalkar’s minimalist unconventional music which combines
tradition and imperfection to give a never before effect, the tracks “Chi Cha
Ledar” and “Kala Re” being most notable.
This one (along
with the first) definitely carries on the tradition set by The Godfather,
Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface and The Departed, again reaffirming the fact that
talent in filmmaking is with the independent productions and not Bollywood.
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