All the reel gangsters had assembled at the trailer launch of Mirzapur: The Movie on Tuesday evening.

Just outside the entrance to the multiplex hall in Juhu where the Mirzapur trailer launch was to take place, there were guns, ammo cartons and carpets lying around, and servers offering us 'Bullet' icecream, slowly ushering us into the unhinged, colourful world of Mirzapur, where The Free Press Journal was present.

With ardent fans in the audience, whenever the cast came on stage, there were loud shouts and chants for each character. And the one word repeated literally every 15 minutes was the word which has come to be associated with the series: bhaukal. The loudest cheers without a doubt were reserved for Pankaj Tripathi, Divyenndu and Ali Fazal.

Mirzapur | Ashwini Sawant

While predominantly the interactions with the host revolves around their characters, Shweta Tripathi Sharma made a pointed statement, about how violence should only be practiced on screen, and not in real life, a topic which had been hotly debated at a certain point of time when there used to be debates about whether the series was very violent.

The trailer, without delving into too many specifics, has been superbly edited, with several solid moments. Just to mention one, because he is the 'trend' of the season, was when Ravi Kishan, disappointed due to the low blood loss after stabbing someone in the trailer says, "Tera haemoglobin low hai kya?".