“Hindustan mein jab tak canima hai, log chutiye bante rahenge!” says Tigmanshu Dhulia’s character, Ramadhir Singh, (tongue firmly in cheek) in Gangs of Wasseypur II. Or something to this effect, translated for the benefit of non-Hindi speakers: “Till cinema exists in India, people will be made fools of easily!” You can witness the above-mentioned scene in a packed single screen at a posh suburban Mumbai neighbourhood. It’ll probably draw the maximum applause. People will whistle and hoot without realising that Anurag Kashyap, Gangs of Wasseypur II’s director whose works express his small-town India experience, was taking a shot at the very people who were relishing that scene. The audience was the butt of the joke. And the audience is us,…
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