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