GANGS OF WASSEYPUR FULL
In New York City, the full film will play at the prestigious Lincoln Centre opening on January 16 for one week. Part II will release in the same theatres the following week on January 23, also for one week only. Part 1 of the film charting 70 years in the lives - and spectacular deaths - of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India, will be released on Janury 16 for an exclusive one-week-only run at several AMC theatres across the US. "It's unabashedly violent action and crime films for the 'thinking person,'" he said calling the Gangs of Wasseypur India's first entry on the list of films like Oldboy and I Saw the Devil from Korea and Drive and Nightcrawler from America. "Outside of the Indian population in the US, there is a growing audience for 'arthouse genre' films," Shankar, US presenter of the Indian crime saga, told IANS in an interview. Director Anurag Kashyap's award-winning epic Gangs of Wasseypur is India's answer to The Godfather and Oldboy and India's coming out party as an international storytelling powerhouse, according to Kolkata born Indian-American filmmaker Adi Shankar.Īt just 29, Mr Shankar has created his own counter-culture 'brand' with critically acclaimed R-rated violent feature films and superhero "bootleg" films like The Grey and A Walk Among the Tombstones.
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