GOW-2: The last of Anurag's ambitious journey going downhill

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In my review of GOW 1 I had mentioned that the film was an overdose of style, treatment and loads of gore and guns. The script, story and everything in between took a back seat. The zest, fervour and the spirit of GOW 1 continues with GOW 2. What a mess? Manoj replaced by Nawazzuddin and it is one hell of a journey into the heartlands of Dhanbad (Wasseypur) with more blood, more guns and a transforming India in as the backdrop. The coal replaced by scrap, the black telephones replaced by pager (!) and eventually by cellular phones. But the gore and blood stays. Absence of a plot and a good script is throughout visible and at times it meanders into a docu-drama into the history of India through the eyes of Anurag Kashyap (suggest he goes back to Black Friday and see the DVD again). Frame after frame there is a motley crowd of rogues either eating or shooting or f***ing. Nothing really separating one from the other. The only silver lining, Tigmanshu Dhulia. Every frame he appears it comes alive, complete control of what he is doing and his Allahabad stint seems to have done him good. Nawazuddin and the motley crowd of newbies and a few veterans fail to impress. Pity! After Kahaani, one really was hoping will see more of him, hope we do not see him off.
The dialect of the movie is very eastern UP (Poorvanchali) and not the dialect of Dhanbad, which is another odd straw. One who has lived in that part of the world will be able to relate better. The language of Varanasi, Allahabad, Jaunpur, Gorakhpurt and everything in between is what the language of the movie is. However, the Dhanbad hindi dialect is different and there are traces of Bengali too, in that. Something which seemed as a gaffe to me.
Moments that stand out in the film. Hardly any! The funeral scene of Manoj Bajpayee is good with Yashpal Sharma back in his cameo, this time as the soulful singer. Funny? No! Quirky? Yes! This is where the film could have scored. There are moments of quirkiness ( a la Quintin Tarantino or a Guy Ritchie) yet it does not sustain. It seems a goulash of a Coppola, Tarantino and traces of Kubrick.
The music of the film, quirky! but never translates into the movie. Each sequence as stated earlier, is plotted and placed with lack of connect and a string to tie. That is where Anurag meanders into a docu-drama.
A long, dull and predictable tirade that ends with Faizal's change of heart. One hope's Anurag Kashyap has a change of mind post GOW episode and focuses on movie making which is simple, sticks to basics and yes (how did I forget!) has a PLOT!    

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