Sardar learns the truth about his father's death, upon which he shaves his head and vows not to grow his hair until he has avenged his father's murder. Under the care of Nasir, Sardar grows up along with Nasir's nephew Asgar (Jameel Khan). An unsuccessful Ehsaan lies to Singh that Shahid's family has been murdered, burnt, and buried. He flees from the house with Shahid's son Sardar in the nick of time as Ehsaan Qureshi (Vipin Sharma), another associate of Ramadhir Singh and a member of the Wasseypur Qureshi clan, shows up to kill them but is too late. Nasir (Piyush Mishra), Shahid's cousin, finds Ramadhir's umbrella with his initials near the door and concludes that Ramadhir eavesdropped on their conversation. Singh tricks Shahid into traveling to Varanasi for business but instead has him murdered by an assassin named Yadav Ji (Harish Khanna). On a rainy day, Ramadhir Singh overhears Shahid's ambitions of taking over the coal mines from him. Shahid terrorises the local population to seize their lands and extract compliance.
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He hires Shahid Khan as the new muscleman of one of the coal mines. The British coal mines are sold to Indian industrialists and Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia) receives a few coal mines in the Dhanbad region. In 1947, independent India begins to assert its authority over itself. The enraged Shahid kills the coal mine's muscleman who had denied him leave on that day. He is unable to be at his wife's side during childbirth, and she dies. They settle down in Dhanbad where Shahid begins work as a labourer in a coal mine.
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The Qureshi clans eventually find out and order the banishment of Shahid Khan and his family from Wasseypur. Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat), a Pathan, takes advantage of the mysteriousness of the faceless dacoit Sultana, a Qureshi, by impersonating his identity to rob British ferry trains. The region was a hotbed of the local faceless dacoit Sultana Qureshi who robbed British trains in the night and thus held some patriotic value for the locals. The village has been historically dominated by the Qureshi Muslims, a sub-caste of animal butchers who are feared by the non-Qureshi Muslims living there and Dhanbad by extension.ĭuring British colonial rule, the British had seized the farm lands of Dhanbad for coal which began the business of coal mining in Dhanbad. In 2000, Wasseypur and Dhanbad were redistricted for a second time into the newly formed state of Jharkhand where they remain. After India gained its independence in 1947, they were carved out of Bengal and redistricted into the state of Bihar in 1956. During the British Raj, Wasseypur and Dhanbad were located in the Bengal region. Nasir's narration describes the history and nature of Wasseypur. The scene cuts abruptly for a prologue by the narrator, Nasir. Singh on his cell phone and reports that the family has been successfully executed but he is double crossed by JP Singh as a fire fight erupts between them and a police check post blocking their escape route. After heavy firing on the house, they retreat from the crime scene in a vehicle, convinced they have killed everyone within.
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They surround the house and unleash a wave of bullets and grenades on it with the intention of killing the family inside it.
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A gang of heavily armed men scour and finally narrow down on a house in Wasseypur. this is also is that film of mine that totally destroyed my filmmaking life by the expectations it sets from me as a filmmaker and has been continuously so, and I have forever been trying to break away from it. That’s my absolute favourite of the 21st century. The number 1 film in the list I totally agree with. and “the Dark Knight” deserves to be way up. Proud to be here but this wouldn’t be my list.So many films which are my favourites can’t be below my film. His caption on the post read, “Guardian’s list of 100 best film of 21st century. Sharing the news on his Instagram handle, Anurag posted the description that went with the film’s position. Also Read - Sacred Games 2: Akali Dal MLA Targets Anurag Kashyap Over 'Disrespecting Sikh Sentiments' And Promoting 'Anti-India' Ideology The film with which actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Huma Qureshi shot to instant fame, has bagged the 59th position on the list and netizens couldn’t be more proud. Credited with a trajectory of almost all critically acclaimed and audience-loved movies, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap‘s cult film of 2012, Gangs Of Wasseypur, has now become the only Bollywood film to feature in The Guardian List of 100 Best Films of 21st Century.