Prashant Kumar Singh, owner of Puja Talkies in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, told IANS: “‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ has opened rather well with 80 to 85 percent occupancy. One of the most shows were even houseful. The film goes great or even the development booking is occurring full swing.”
Bihar-based Brijesh Tandon of HK Tandon and corporate said that “Gangs Of Wasseypur” “has opened rather well in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It's around 80 percent occupancy.”
Written by Zeishan Quadri, who hails from Wasseypur, known for the bloody rivalry between gangster Faheem Khan and businessman Sabir Alam over scrap business, the film is described as a cinematic offering that has hurled audiences right into the notorious anarchy of the North Indian small-town where the barrel of the gun speaks an irresistible language of mayhem by a reviewer.
Directed by Kashyap, it has an excessive amount of of gore and blood and it's believed that violence in this level hasn't ever really been part of mainstream Hindi cinema before.
Despite that the audiences are thronging the cinema hall to look this blood saga.
Delhi-base distributor Sanjay Ghai said: ” ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ has opened with 70 to 80 percent opening in both single screens and multiplex in Delhi and goes great.”
In Mumbai, the response was slow but, in line with distributor Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combine, “‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ opened with 20 to twenty-five percent in Mumbai. However it has started improving from the evening shows and would pick up within the night and on the weekend.”
Manoj Gupta of Viacom 18 said: “In Varanasi, the outlet was around 70 to 80 percent however the afternoon shows went houseful in Lucknow, Gorakhpur among others. Even the multiplex shows of ‘Gangs…’ are houseful.”
Kashyap, who co-produced the film with Sunil Bohra, has said that it's his costliest film and he reportedly needed to spend Rs.15 crore on paying the actors.
Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Richa Chadha, Huma Quershi, Reema Sen and Piyush Mishra’s have stepped into thier roles convincingly and their powerful performances have made this real life-based story right into a compelling cinema and it's wooing audiences in Kolkata too.
” ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ has opened with 45 to 50 percent occupancy in Kolkata and is improving with the evening shows,” said Moni Venkatesh of Shri Venkatesh Films. – IANS
