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Asshole

Gandu

India

2010

85 Min
Color, Black and White
2.35:1
Bengali
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DIR Kaushik Mukherjee

EXEC Dipankar Chaki

PROD Kaushik Mukherjee

SCR Kaushik Mukherjee, Surojit Sen

DP Kaushik Mukherjee

CAST Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharjee, Rituparna Sen, Shilajit Majumder

ED Manas Mittal, Kaushik Mukherjee, Surojit Sen

PROD DES Kaushik Mukherjee

MUSIC Five Little Indians

Berlinale (Panorama), Transilvania, Helsinki (Genre Glitter), London (World Cinema), Athens (International Competition), Oldenburg, Chicago (World Cinema), Stockholm (Asian Images), Ghent (World Cinema), !F Istanbul (!f Inspired)

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Hardcore and at times sexually explicit, Asshole has more in common with contemporary Indian art and rap culture than the cinematic traditions of the country. In this rollercoaster ride where few social taboos are left unbroken, we meet 20-year-old Gandu (slang for asshole), who lives with his single mum in a dingy Kolkata flat. She has turned to sex work to make ends meet and has a regular client whose discarded trousers Gandu regularly steals money from. Gandu’s frustrated life revolves around an internet café where he surfs videogames and porn. Returning home one day, he crashes into a young rickshaw driver who is heavily into Bruce Lee. Gandu confides in Rickshaw about his fantasy of becoming a rap star, Rickshaw in return introduces him to hard drugs, and together they run away, sliding into a dark fantasy world where angry rap lyrics melt into visitations by the goddess Kali and an alien sex-kitten. Gandu gets his big onstage break, but is this also a fantasy? Born to be a cult film, Asshole has a charged score, allegedly inspired by UK band Asian Dub Foundation. –BFI

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arshad Khan

17Feb12

This is definitely the best film to come out of India this year. Explosive, imaginative, moving, urgent, youthful, anxious and poignant. Great acting and strong script. I will be looking for more work by this director.

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Archie Del Mundo

22Nov11

Easily, a masterwork of an Indian Jarmusch. Explicit. Irreverent. Poetic. Brilliantly sordid. One of the best films I've seen this year.

nikon

12Nov11

Super cool !

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Sudipto Basu

31Oct11

Hilarious in parts, bewildering in others. Okay, now my eyes are aching after trying to follow a four-way split screen.

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Hey Rickshaw! Will I die if I fall from here?

By Rohit on November 9, 2011

Gandu is an exciting film and could even become one of the path breaking films in the larger context of Indian film industry. It has some phenomenal ideas(both technical as well as conceptual) but…  read review

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