Accuse him of thinking abstract, but you cannot accuse Anurag Kashyap of following the stereotype. In Gulaal, the storyteller attempts to tell multiple stories in one film. Student politics, a separate state for Rajputs, an intense love story that has a disastrous end… Kashyap's Gulaal is intelligent, intense, disturbing, poignant and expectedly, cerebral.

Gulaal is thought-provoking and has the power to engage you at various points of the narrative. Honestly, it takes time...