Anurag Kashyap has done it once again. For those, who thought "DevD" was worthy of the TOI rating of 5/5. GOW deserves a rating of 100/100. A movie can't be bigger than this, bigger not in terms of budget, but in terms of ambitions. I was completely blown away by this epic saga and have ran out of vocabulary when it comes to praise this movie.

The story starts with a bang. Indian villages of British era were never so authentic since the last time they were shown in Gandhi(1982). Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat) sets the pace of a gory battle that will eventually be continued till the next 60 years. Ramadhir Singh(Tigmanshu Dhulia) gets every nuances rights of his character of a Bhumihar landlord. There is not much story, to be honest, but it's the screenplay that overpowers everything, it gives us characters that will etched in one's memory days after leaving the theater. The sets, locations, dialect, accent literally takes you to Bihar. Whether it's 1941's Bengal or 2004's Jharkhand, the essence of the movie remains hardcore Bihari. However, this isn't completely a grim movie about the then prevalent anarchy in the state. The movie also showers us with some colorful characteristic of the state, such as, Mithun worshiping or the innocent love affairs(Danish's love at first sight and Faisal's interactions with Mohsina). The way they looked into each other's eyes with "salaam- e-ishq" playing in background to the way entire scene at the pond when he touches her hand are a delight to watch. Nawazuddin Siddiqui shines in his short role though it is evident he is going to be at center-stage in part II. There are numerous sequences that will remains etched in your memory for a long time, especially most of the scenes with Richa Chadhha(playing Bajpai's wife).Reema Sen showed village sensuality in a way never seen before.

The music of this movie is strange, as it not exactly a bollywood music, which allows people to go to bathroom or to go for a smoke. Here each song is an integral part of the movie. All songs are short and takes the story forward. However the best part of the music was the use of old songs in the narrative, e.g., "Kasam paida karne wale ki" title song. You have to watch it to believe it the way it was shown in the film.

There is no point writing the story here as this is not a story driven movie, This is a character driven movie and characters with powerful actors. Kahsyap has calculative selected his cast as every actor has given a marvelous performance. However I felt bad for Yashpal Sharma, he should have been given a proper character and now let's talk about the Amitabh of this Trishul, even though Waheeeda, Sanjeev, Shashi and Hema played such beautiful characters, the film would have been nothing sans Bachchan. Same goes for Amitabh of this movie, Manoj Bajpai. I have no adjectives to describe his performance. His role was the strongest and he didn't let his director down but then, he always have been a terrific actor, it's the directors who fail to give him a strong role. I still remember his "maa'm, maa'm" from "Kaun", which I think one of his most underrated performances. The way he has been shown in the climax will give goosebumps to every person sitting in the theater, the song "Jiya ho bihar ke lala" comes at this juncture and it is one of the finest climaxes ever in the history of Indian cinema. Overall, GOW is a movie so damn brilliant, it needs to be seen in order to be believed.