Onscreen Faizal indulges in substance abuse while off-screen director Anurag Kashyup gets indulgent with the characters and the chronicle. It’s indulgence, rather over-indulgence, that sabotages the sequel to an extent. 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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