 Bhardwaj has been influenced by many directors — including Manmohan Desai , Subhash Ghai , Quentin Tarantino and Francis Ford Coppola — and combines these influences in his work . Rakesh Bedi wrote that " Bhardwaj keeps displaying his vision throughout the film " . Reviewers have compared the film 's multi @-@ plot narrative to those of several films by Tarantino , Guy Ritchie and the Coen Brothers . Reviewers said that the film mostly belongs to the level of Pulp Fiction ; Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called it " Bollywood 's first all @-@ the @-@ way @-@ out @-@ to @-@ there pulp fiction " . Bedi wrote , " there 's Buñuel in the Bengali dons , there 's Kurosawa ... in that surreal train car in which Charlie lives , there 's Ray in money @-@ floating dreams that Charlie has " . Keshav <unk> of the Hindustan Times compared the apocalyptical gang war in the climax to Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) . He said , " Bhardwaj just demolishes the cliches of Bollywood . In ripping apart the stereotype , he gives us a prototype : a Bollywood that deals with alienation , ... angst , ... and atrocity . " A review in The Times of India said that the film 's climax reaches the level of Reservoir Dogs , and described it as " absolutely riveting stuff , with the camera going on a hitherto unexplored journey in Indian cinema . " 
