Paanch | |
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Directed by | Anurag Kashyap |
Written by | Anurag Kashyap |
Produced by | Padmini Kolhapure (presenter) Tutu Sharma Jaydev Banerjee |
Starring | Kay Kay Menon Aditya Srivastava Vijay Maurya Joy Fernandes Tejaswini Kolhapure |
Cinematography | Natarajan Subramaniam |
Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
Music by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
Production company | Padmini Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Paanch (transl. Five) is a 2003 Indian crime thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap in his directing debut, 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]
Paanch never got a theatrical or home-video release. The Central Board of Film Certification objected to the film's violence, depiction of drug abuse, and bad language.[2] After some cuts, the film was cleared in 2001,[3] but despite the director's protests it wasn't approved for release. The story was deemed too disturbing for the general public and the production lacked the budget for reshoots.[1] Paanch was later made available through torrent websites and screened at several film festivals.[4][5]
Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.
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 and marked the entry of the music publisher into the Hindi film music market.[6][7]
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 Anurag Kashyap stayed at the St. Xavier's Boys Hostel, spent time with Adam Avil, Eddie Avil, Luke Kenny, and Ulysses Veyra, members of a band initially named Greek, which was later renamed Pralay. He documented their daily activities, filling up forty pages of a small notebook, this formed the basis for a script he began to write in fragments for a film initially titled Mirage, which eventually became Paanch. Kashyap had previously seen ex-VJ Luke Kenny perform in a play directed by Vikram Kapadia. Impressed by Kenny’s performance, Kashyap approached him with a partially completed script. However, this collaboration never happened. Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj[8] Later, while collaborating with Nair, Kashyap stumbled upon files related to the Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders, a series of ten murders committed in Pune in 1976.[9]
"Five very ordinary college kids viciously murdered nine people. I got what I needed to finish my script then."
Paanch was screened at Filmfest Hamburg in 2003,[10] Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema as closing film in 2005,[11] Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2006[12] and at Jagran Film Festival in 2016.[13]