Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
On Quartile, Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 scores 8/10 across five categories — strongest on Plot (Well Above Average), weakest on Acting (Above Average).
Ranked among Quartile’s Top Plot.
In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.
Anurag Kashyap's sprawling crime epic is a landmark of Indian cinema — a multigenerational saga of vengeance, power, and coal-mining corruption rooted in real history. The plotting is dense and novelistic, the ensemble acting is exceptional (Manoj Bajpayee is electrifying), and the cinematography has a raw, gritty vitality that feels wholly original. Its voice, tone, and cultural specificity make it genuinely unlike anything else in world cinema. As Part 1 of a duology, the ending is necessarily open-ended and transitional rather than fully satisfying on its own, warranting a slightly lower score in that category.