Anurag Kashyap's 2012 drama Gangs of Wasseypur has become the only Indian film to feature in The Guardian's list of 100 Best Films of the 21st century. The list, reportedly curated by reviewers from the publication, such as Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard, has Paul Thomas Anderson's American epic drama, There Will Be Blood (2007) on number 1 while Anurag's film has grabbed the 59th spot. Interestingly, critically acclaimed films like Persepolis (2007), Waltz With Bashir (2007) and Capernaum (2018) apart from Gladiator (2000), Lost In Translation (2003), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and No Country For Old Men (2007) have ranked below Gangs of Wasseypur on the list.
Anurag took to social media to reveal the list, however, he contradicted with the choice of the films and said, "Proud to be here but this wouldn’t be my list. So many films which are my favourites can’t be below my film.. and 'The Dark Knight' deserves to be way up." In fact, he termed Gangs of Wasseypur as the film that destroyed his filmmaking life by writing, "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. Hopefully someday that will happen."
Gangs of Wasseypur featured an ensemble cast with Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadda and Tigmanshu Dhulia
On the work front, Anurag has kickstarted his Netflix's horror anthology titled Ghost Stories.
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