Three families, over three decades, in just under 320 minutes— as Gangs of Wasseypur 2 completes a decade on 8 August, it’s easy to take the things Anurag Kashyap’s film gave to Bollywood for granted. The 2012 films generated a garage of meme and content with their crude slangs to the brandishing of guns. The underrepresented communities in Hindi films had finally found their saviour in Gangs of Wasseypur. It was able to shine the spotlight on small-town India without patronising it and without the city lens. It didn’t romanticise their difficult life or glorify their misery, at no point did you feel sympathy for the characters out of guilt. Political ambitions and family politics collided in the narrow alleys of Wasseypur. It sparked a wave of stories set in similar cities. For instance, Mirzapur, Panchayat, Gullak, and Hasmukh.Gangs of Wasseypur changed the tide in Bollywood. Real India was on screen.
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