There is no compromise on the intensity in the ambience of the anecdote. The epilogue, though predictable, is poignant. Only this time you get to see it from the internal side, learning what Faizal and family went through. Also the narrative comes full circle returning to the opening mob-attack sequence with which the first part initiated. A chase sequence amidst the bustling city is as real as it gets.
With guns and gadgets coming into picture, the revenge drama is regular yet relatable.
The gradual progression over eras is subtly and smartly punctuated with strategically placed elements, distinctive of the decade. Nevertheless, despite the sequel being in standard zone, it is often absorbing. Kashyup often camouflages the shallowness of Faizal with glamourized shots of drugs and violence.
And with this divergence in the characterization, you don’t root as strongly for Faizal as you did for Sardar Khan, though both are equally immoral, vicious and well-enacted characters. Perpetually-doped don who lacks business sense and is vulnerable to materialism, he is quite the opposite of his father Sardar Khan, the protagonist of the prequel. Though Nawazuddin Siddiqui has immense screen-presence despite his straight-faced demeanour, his one-dimensional characterization is an intermittent letdown. New characters in the form of Perpendicular, Tangent, Definite, et al are introduced and their juvenile criminal activities and swiveling storytelling structure evidently remind of the Brazilian Masterpiece City of God, a regular reference point for this genre. The narrative continues to be as random and racy with the revenge drama claiming more lives rampantly. However all is not what it seems with a lot of double-cross and triple-cross in store. Ramadheer Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia) continues to be the antagonist who, this time, attempts to instigate Definite (Zeishan Quadri), Faizal’s stepbrother, against him. However with every other local aspiring to be a Sultaan or a Sardar, the city and its crime scene aren’t as it used to be. Post the death of his father Sardar Khan, followed with his brother’s murder, Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) takes over as the dreaded gang-lord of the crime syndicate in Wasseypur. The sequel starts exactly from where the forerunner ended. However beyond a point it falls slack on story, after which it stretches the yarn, turning repetitive and foreseeable. With the two episodes being conceived and filmed simultaneously, the sequel carries forward the same grit, grammar, vigour and vengeance of its predecessor. Having said that it’s important to clarify that Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 is not substandard cinema by any means.
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