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Movie Poster for Paanch |
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| Directed by | Anurag Kashyap |
| Produced by | Tutu Sharma |
| Written by | Anurag Kashyap |
| Starring | Kay Kay Menon Aditya Srivastava Vijay Maurya Joy Fernandes Tejaswini Kolhapure |
| Music by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Cinematography | Natarajan Subramaniam |
| Editing by | Aarti Bajaj |
| Release date(s) | 2011 / 2012 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | INR 2 crores |
Paanch (Hindi: पाँच) is an unreleased Indian film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Vijay Maurya, Joy Fernandes and Tejaswini Kolhapure. The film is "loosely" based on the 1976-77 Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders in Pune.[1] The film never got a theatrical or home-video release. It has been refused a clearance certificate by the censor board, twice. Both the refusals to release this film were made on six grounds - the film glorifies violence; it shows the modus operandi of a crime (killing of a police officer); it shows excessive use of drugs; it has double meaning dialogues (with sexual undertones); it has no positive characters; it does not carry a social message. All those who have seen the film either in private-screenings or through a leaked copy doing the rounds in popular torrent sites for a couple of years now, have praised its realistic approach. And many famous Directors like Ram Gopal Varma, Govind Nihalani, Sudhir Mishra, Kundan Shah, Ketan Mehta, Aziz Mirza and Farhan Akhtar have liked the film. Only Ashutosh Gowariker said that he saw why the censor board was refusing it a certificate. It is really disturbing, he said.
The story depicts what ambition, immorality, greed and angst, unmistakably the products of urban life, can do to an ordinary person. A little mischief for the sake of success leads a group of 5 wannabe rock stars to get entangled in a gory web of murder and betrayal. What follows is a shocking thriller of a story, supported aptly by some great performances, the best coming from Kay Kay Menon and Tejaswini Kolhapure. The movie has a great musical score by Vishal Bhardwaj. The songs, most of which Anurag Kashyap interestingly uses up in the first 15 minutes, are brilliant. So is the background music. Another high point of the movie is the cinematography, which impresses upon the viewer an aura of fast-paced urbanity juxtaposed with dark, ruthless bloodshed. If there's a low point in the movie, it is in the first few minutes after the interval where the plot seems ineffective and dragged. However, they are easily outweighed by the compelling tension and gloom that permeate the movie.
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The soundtrack of the film features music composed by Vishal Bhardwaj and lyrics written by Abbas Tyrewala. The album was released by BMG Crescendo in May 2002,[2] and marked the entry of the music publisher into the Hindi film music market.[3]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Main Khuda" (performed by K.K.) | 6:06 |
| 2. | "Ye Kaisa Hai Shaher" (performed by Dominique) | 4:22 |
| 3. | "Paka Mat" (performed by Hariharan and K.K.) | 4:38 |
| 4. | "Paanch Theme" (performed by Dominique) | 2:49 |
| 5. | "Ankhiyan Chipki" (performed by Ustad Sultan Khan) | 4:20 |
| 6. | "Jism Hai" (performed by Asha Bhosle) | 3:31 |
| 7. | "Tamas" (performed by Deva Sen Gupta) | 4:31 |
| 8. | "Main Khuda" (performed by Sunidhi Chauhan) | 4:36 |
In September 1993, while Kashyap stayed at the St. Xavier's Boys Hostel, he used to hang out with the members of a band—Greek (later Pralay). He took copious notes on how they lead their lives—forty pages of a small notebook, and began writing the script—"in bits and pieces"—for a film that he called Mirage but which would later become Paanch. Kashyap had seen ex-VJ Luke Kenny in a Vikram Kapadia play, and approached him with an incomplete script, but nothing came out of it.[4]The 'Pahli Seedi' Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj</ref>[5][6][7] Later on, while working with Nair, he came across files related to the Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders that took place in Pune in 1976.[8]
"Five very ordinary college kids viciously murdered nine people. I got what I needed to finish my script then."[6]
He had also seen a film, Fun, about two mentally unstable girls murdering an elderly woman. And Paanch was ready to be made into a film. Kashyap says—
"There was a structuring in Fun, which you will also see in Paanch. There was something in Fun. When I began looking for it, I saw a pattern in Last Train to Mahakali, in my own film Paanch and in Auto Narayan. All three films had a similar formula. I am able to analyze it because I have.[4]
<ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pahli-seedi; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text<ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named juneja-1; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text<ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named dna; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no textThis is Indain cinema at its best. A wonderful Psychological thriller with tight script and excellent narration. Yes the end of the movie is little bit dragged and can be a bit better. But worth in every sense. Film critics said that this movie is very dark and interesting in every way. He praised the direction and acting of every actor present in the film.
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