Director: Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Two rivals, one stolen identity, and three generations of consequences: this sprawling 2024 crime saga traces how a single act of impersonation reshapes an entire community's fate.
What is Gangs of Wasseypur about?
The film opens with a confrontation between a feared local strongman and a rival who takes the bold step of impersonating him to seize control. That single deception triggers the rival's expulsion from his home territory, and what could have ended as a local dispute instead hardens into a feud that outlives the men who started it. Over roughly three generations, the consequences ripple outward — alliances shift, old scores resurface in new forms, and children inherit grievances they never chose. At more than five hours, the film has room to let its world breathe, tracking how violence becomes tradition and how loyalty curdles into obligation across decades. Rather than building toward a single climactic showdown, it treats the feud itself as the main character, watching how it mutates as each generation reinterprets the original wrong. Director Jorge Guerricaechevarría structures the sprawl with patience, trusting the accumulation of small betrayals and quiet reconciliations to carry as much weight as the film's more explosive confrontations.
Cast & crew
Clara Lago and Tamar Novas lead an ensemble that includes Xosé A. Touriñán, Chechu Salgado, Melania Cruz, and Francesc Garrido across the story's multi-generational timeline.
Context & significance
This 2024 crime drama runs 320 minutes under Jorge Guerricaechevarría's direction, positioning it among the small group of feature films built on an epic, multi-decade timescale rather than a single contained plot. Its length lets side characters and minor betrayals accumulate meaning that a shorter cut of the same feud would have to compress or cut entirely.
Where & how to watch
The film streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the story's long timeline without relying on subtitles. The page itself is free to browse without an account; watching requires logging into K-Time, where the platform is designed around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking viewers.