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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