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Sholay leads on Celluloid Score (87% vs 83%). Sholay is the foundational Hindi masala western; Wasseypur is the modern coal-belt crime saga in two parts. Scores combine verified editorial and independent rating inputs.
Sholay is the foundational Hindi masala western; Wasseypur is the modern coal-belt crime saga in two parts.
Different centuries of Hindi crime mythology. Sholay invented the ensemble revenge template; Gangs of Wasseypur updates feuds with digressive, dirty realism. Neither replaces the other — compare runtime appetite and tolerance for sprawl.
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Viacom18 Motion Pictures Anurag Kashyap’s coal-dust epic is Hindi cinema’s great modern gangster saga — sprawling, funny, brutal, and endlessly quotable.
Across decades in the mining towns of Dhanbad, the Khan and Qureshi clans wage a blood feud that remakes local power, crime, and myth.
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United Producers India's definitive masala western — endlessly quoted, remade in spirit, never surpassed.
Two small-time crooks hired to capture a ruthless bandit forge unlikely bonds with villagers on the dusty frontier.
Full page →| Signal | Gangs of Wasseypur | Sholay |
|---|---|---|
| Celluloid Score | 83% | 87% |
| Editorial rating | 94/100 | 96/100 |
| Audience snapshot (excluded) | 89% | 90% |
| Metascore | 89 | — |
| Letterboxd | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| IMDb | 8.2 | 8.1 |
| Runtime | 2h 40m | 3h 24m |
| Country | India | India |
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