Gandu
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Gandu

Directed by Q
Year: 2010
Country: India
Language: Bengali 2.0 w/English subtitles

As much of an anti-Bollywood film as one could imagine, revolutionary filmmaker Q’s GANDU (Hindi slang for asshole) is a deliriously frantic, music-infused look at one poor young man and his dreams of becoming a rap star. Excitable Gandu lives in Kolkata. Poor, he survives by stealing spare change from his mother’s sleazy lover. Gandu’s lives to a rapper, and finds a comrade-in-song with another young man, the Bruce Lee-loving Rickshaw. Together they sing, drink, do drugs, wander the city and collectively dream of success. When Gandu wins big in the lottery all his dreams seem to come true. Or do they? Told in fragmented scenes with pulsating music, the film is surreal, wild, weird, unpredictable, and sexually graphic, GANDU is a startlingly bold and wildly entertaining example of new Indian filmmaking, and which ironically is banned in India.

"...a highly transgressive, visually spectacular assault on the senses." - Time Out London

"A frenetic velocity and energy infuses every frame of the film. Split screens, frantic edits, and an urgent visual style grabs you and propel you forward into the void with all of the infectious power and force of an adrenaline-filled club anthem. Thematically dense, dealing with identity, morality, sex, drugs, hope, Gandu is dark, pessimistic, and divisive. It's also a fantastic, fun, frenzied slice of finding hope in a hopeless life." - PopMatters


Cast
Anubrata Basu
Joyraj Bhattacharya
Rii
Kamalika Banerjee

Crew
Directed by Q