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Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language black comedy gangster thriller film directed by Anurag Kashyap,[9] and written by Kashyap and Zeishan Quadri. It is the first installment of the Gangs of Wasseypur series, centered on the coal mafia of Dhanbad, and the underlying power struggles, politics and vengeance between three crime families from 1941 to the mid-1990s. Part 1 stars an ensemble cast, featuring Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadda, Reema Sen, Piyush Mishra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vineet Kumar Singh, Pankaj Tripathi, Huma Qureshi, Anurita Jha and Tigmanshu Dhulia.Directed by Anurag Kashyap Written by Akhilesh Jaiswal Anurag Kashyap Sachin K. Ladia Story by Zeishan Quadri Produced by Anurag Kashyap Sunil Bohra Viacom18 Motion Pictures Starring Manoj Bajpayee Richa Chadda Reema Sen Piyush Mishra Nawazuddin Siddiqui Jaideep Ahlawat Vineet Kumar Singh Pankaj Tripathi Jameel Khan Huma Qureshi Anurita Jha Tigmanshu Dhulia Narrated by Piyush Mishra Cinematography Rajeev Ravi Edited by Shweta Venkat Matthew Music by Sneha Khanwalkar (songs) G. V. Prakash Kumar (score) Distributed by Viacom18 Motion Pictures Release dates May 2012 (Cannes) 22 June 2012 (India) Running time 160 minutes[1] Country India Language Hindi Budget ₹9.2 crore (US$1.2 million)[2] Box office ₹27.85 crore (US$3.5 million)[3][4][5][6][7][8] Although both parts were shot as a single film measuring a total of 319 minutes,[10][11][12] no Indian theatre would screen a five-hour film, so it was divided into two parts. Gangs of Wasseypur was screened in its entirety at the 2012 Cannes Directors' Fortnight,[13] marking one of the only Hindi-language films to achieve this. It was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.[14] It was filmed in Varanasi, Bihar, and Chunar, with these settings inspiring the film's soundtrack, which consists mainly of Indian folk