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For Chehre Pe Chehra (1981), makeup artist Shashikant Mhatre created a different look for Sanjeev Kumar who played a dual role in the film, with facial hair, leathery skin and jagged teeth.Īs budgets and creative ambitions increased, producers began to hire makeup artists from Hollywood. There is a famous story of Zeenat Aman sticking an “omelet” (a piece of latex with a burn scar) on her face, and showing up to Raj Kapoor to show him that she would be perfect for. Prosthetic makeup is nothing new to Bollywood.

The appointment with prosthetic design and makeup happened by chance for the two former students of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, but they haven’t looked back since their split in the movies with Anurag Kashyap. Led by Zuby Johal and Rajiv Subba, the team here, which includes engineers, sculptors, painters and machinists, create prosthetic makeups and props for movies and shows using silicone, fiberglass. In different areas of the space, you could find a severed head, a baby hanging out to dry, a pregnant belly coloring itself and next to the carton of milk on the kitchen counter, a burnt hand. On the top floor of an old building near the edge of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad is the Dirty Hands Studios.

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But if Hollywood can milk commercially viable ideas through prequels, sequels, and remakes for decades, no reason why Kashyap can’t try his luck.What kind of food is served on a movie set? Who chose the paintings for the hero’s bedroom? What does an executive producer do? Karishma Upadhyay’s monthly column Bollywood Inside might attempt to answer these and other questions you might have on anything Bollywood-related but were too shy to ask. The chemistry between this unlikely couple makes for some of the most enjoyable scenes in the film.įinally, could this same effect have been achieved by a heavily edited, combined version of part 1 and 2? Probably. Huma Quereshi is a real beauty and delivers a powerful performance even in scenes where she isn’t required to do much but glide about in Raybans. Siddiqui is brilliant, his frail body immaterial to his gigantic screen presence. Undoubtedly, performances are the film's mainstay. With stray bullets killing mortals erratically, Kashyap finds beauty in splattering blood and falling bullet shells with the cinematography often reaching somewhere poetic. Kashyap seems content here to let his madcap characters actually enjoy themselves, making for a far sillier - and decidedly more joyous - cinematic universe. While that indulgence adds considerably to the film’s length, it also allows Kashyap to add his signature details that give the film a zany sense of humour through all that grim.Ī marriage ‘brass band’ singer with a lisp and gaudy shirts sings passionately at funerals, characters’ ring tones give away hints of their true personality and Faizal’s wife (Huma Quereshi) bursts into crazy half English, half Wasseypur songs at moments that are meant to be the most poignant. Onscreen, Faizal indulges in substance abuse while off-screen director Anurag Kashyap gets indulgent with the characters and the chronicle. It's indulgence – rather, over-indulgence – that hinders the sequel to an extent. The offbeat songs that act as background score aid this sense of craziness that looms over the entire film. The humour gets darker and more unnerving. The men have turned to exploit businesses like the auctioning of the Railways' scrap iron, booth-capturing and election-related violence, all while wielding sophisticated weapons. The idea, this time around, is to show the massive transformation of Wasseypur in the last decade, as a result of which a number of gangsters operate as opposed to a handful in earlier times. You are immersed into a world where people are called ‘Perpendicular’ and ‘Definite,’ the best way to get a restaurant to empty out is by shooting a bullet in the air, mothers pack guns into their childrens’ school bags and wives support the madness of husbands, proudly sashaying around as they kill. Unlike part 1, which took its time to set up, GoW 2 gets on with it right away.
