Anurag Kashyap working on delayed Gangs of Wasseypur 3 next

By Rohit Bhatnagar

on September 21, 2018

Six years after he gave new meaning to Bollywood crime thrillers by featuring power struggles, politics, and vengeance in his two-part coal mafia film Gangs of Wasseypur, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is believed to be working on the third installment of the dark and gritty series. Zeishan Quadri, who wrote the story, will direct Gangs of Wasseypur 3. Quadri is resident of Wasseypur locality in Dhanbad city of Jharkhand. He was invited by Kashyap to direct the third part after the filmmaker got impressed by Quadri’s directorial debut Meeruthiya Gangsters in 2015.

[caption id="attachment_137372" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Poster of Gangs of Wasseypur[/caption]

They started working on Gangs of Wasseypur 3 in 2015 but reportedly ran into a major roadblock when residents of Wasseypur are said to have protested. Their objection was that the film had created the impression that Wasseypur was the hub of coal mining gangsters and other criminals.

How Anurag and Quadri maneuvered around this is not known but the director is now said to be working on the music of the film. PeepingMoon.com sources say that music composer Sneha Khanwalkar, who did the soundtrack for the first two Wasseypur films, composed five songs for the third part. The songs are rustic, trippy and true to the Wasseypur franchise.
However, the script has been modified and brought up to the present day. The earlier two installments spanned a timeframe from the 1940s to 2009. The third part will take up the journey from then to the present day, adds the source.

[caption id="attachment_137375" align="alignnone" width="630"] Still from Gangs of Wasseypur 2[/caption]

Gangs of Wasseypur was premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival because it was 319 minutes and no Indian theatre was prepared to screen a film that was over five hours. Kashyap subsequently divided the film into two parts and released them within months of one another with an A certificate across India. It starred Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, Pankaj Tripathi, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Anurita Jha, Jaydeep Ahlawat and Vineet Kumar Singh in pivotal roles.