Gangs of Wasseypur vs Gangs of New York

We all love Anurag kashyap for gulaal, devd, blackfriday. Somehow it made me go down memory lane and recall martin scorsese’s epic movie Gangs of New York  and compare with Anurag Kashyap’s forthcoming movie Gangs of Wasseypur.Is it a tribute to Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York or the similarity ends with name? Both the movies have gangwar and revenge as the base plot taking umbrage of history. Let us wait and watch. Is wasseypur going to be a hit or just critically acclaimed?

Gangs of New York

-Photograph courtesy Miramax Films

—Photograph by Jacob Riis from Bettmann/CORBIS

Director:Martin Scorsese

Writers: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan.

Inspiration: Herbert Asbury's 1928 nonfiction book, The Gangs of New York.

Cast

 Leonardo DiCaprio as Amsterdam Vallon

 Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "the Butcher" Cutting

Cameron Diaz as Jenny Everdeane

 Liam Neeson as "Priest" Vallon

Story

Deals with immigration, civil war between natives and irish immigrants,violent war between “Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Day-Lewis) and Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio).This is an epic  gangster story Loosely based on 19th-century Manhattan's Five Points neighborhood.

Gangs of Wasseypur

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Cast

Manoj Bajpai - Sardar Khan

Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Sohail

Tigmanshu Dhulia - Vikram

Reemma Sen - Diana

Richa Chadda - Rajini

Piyush Mishra -Farhan

Story

Deals with revenge saga in erstwhile Bihar’s coal trade mafia. This is an epic gangster story.