Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) is Anurag Kashyap's sprawling Indian crime epic, and you can watch online on iFILM. Part one opens a blood feud that smoulders across three generations.

In a coal town in eastern India, control of the mines is settled in blood rather than ballots. When Ramadhir Singh has his rival Shahid Khan killed, the dead man's son, Sardar Khan, shaves his head and vows not to grow his hair back until the score is paid. The vendetta then stretches across decades, handed down from fathers to sons. Manoj Bajpayee anchors it as Sardar, while a young Nawazuddin Siddiqui catches fire in the margins.

Kashyap skips glossy Bollywood for something grimy, funny and brutal — a portrait of a province where politics, coal and revenge have grown into a single knot, scored by foul-mouthed local songs that became a cult of their own. Critics often call it India's answer to Scorsese, and it earns the tag — though this is only half the tale, with Part 2 still waiting. Stream Gangs of Wasseypur online on iFILM.