Anurag portraying Wasseypur in bad light?

Cast of Gangs of Wasseypur at Cannes Film Festival

Gangs of Wasseypur is the upcoming project from Anurag Kashyap who is known for his off-beat topics. But this time around, he is trying to portray a topic which is known more to the commercial side of Bollywood. The topic revolves around rivalry between coal mine owners around Wasseypur. The movie has been designed with all the commercial elements that you will see in the commercial movies, the colourful scenes, fights, raunchy acts ... Anurag seems to have touched the base about the subject. The movie has been regarded good and is waiting turn to be screened at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. 

Now when all these parts mention the good side of the movie, what does people of Wasseypur, a village in Jharkhand feel about the movie? They feel its stupid! The movie is said to be portraying the people of Wassseypur in bad light and they have been very unhappy about this. The social activists around Wassseypur has now submitted a memorandum to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni and Babulal Marandi requesting ban on the movie. Copies was also sent to Governor Dr Sayed Ahmed and Union Minister Subodhkant Sahay.

The people of Nayabazar, Wasseypur feels that the movie has several situations/dialogues which are done with an intention to defame the people of Wasseypur! They wont agree to anything short of a Ban to the movie and this puts the controversy factor (which usually filmmakers search for) to the movie!

Social activist Parvez Akhtar said Naya Bazaar, Wasseypur is a Muslim-dominated area with a total population of around 2 lakh. He further told Bhaskar News that most of the people in area work in administrative capacities. Portraying the place in such a bad light, in contrast to reality is demeaning, he added.

Now we will have to wait on what Anurag has to say about this, as in promos there are few intentional scenes that might question the morality of people there, but does movies always reflect the true culture of a place? 

We are sure this might be tagged as movie which has no resemblance to anyone living or dead!

Unknown

- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, May 23, 2012