This was my first bollywood movie (technically second, but the first one was unwatchable) and it did not disappoint! Everything was stellar, the acting, the cinematography, the music was pretty dope throughout! I know bollywood by reputation, and this movie has none of its traits. I'm not going to say it's a masterpiece, 8.2 is still an inflated score, but you will not be bored for 2 minutes in this 5h20m colossus, and in my book it is because of that unmatched by any other mafia film ever made. The Godfather is a snooze fest, and Scorsese's movies, while fantastic in their own rights, still had a lot of dead air. This is pure, undistilled action and just thinking about what it took to film all of it makes me a bit nauseous. Kudos just for that. I'm not even that big of a fan of action, I'm just perplexed by the sheer feat of achieving that! Story is engaging, characters are relatable, even though they're all complete REDACTED (another feat unto itself) and while the events aren't completely true, I still love learning the actual history that inspired them, similar, perhaps not coincidentally, to Gangs of New York.