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Paanch is an Indian crime thriller film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Vijay Maurya, Joy Fernandes and Tejaswini Kolhapure. Wikipedia
Initial release: 21 September 2003
Hindi: पाँच
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Paanch (English: Five) is an Indian crime thriller 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. The Central Board of Film Certification objected to the film's violence, the depiction of drug abuse and bad language. After some cuts, the film was cleared in 2001. However, it could not be released as the producer faced some problems.[2] The film was later released in several film festivals.
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| Hindi | पाँच |
| 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 |
| Edited by | Aarti Bajaj |
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Running time
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130 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹2 crore (US$310,000) |
The film never got a theatrical or home-video release. The Central Board of Film Certification objected to the film's violence, the depiction of drug abuse and bad language. After some cuts, the film was cleared in 2001. However, it could not be released as the producer faced some problems.[2] The film was later released in several film festivals.
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Plot
Four friends (Luke, Murgi, Joy and Pondy) wasted by youth and self-destruction play together in a band along with a fifth female member (Shiuli). Luke the lead singer and self-imposed leader of the pack ensures his dominance in the group by providing accommodation, drugs and food for his wasted and broke friends. Pondy is fascinated by Shiuli who sleeps with rich guys for money. The movie revolves around a kidnapping plot gone wrong, in which the 4 male band members plan to kidnap another friend Nikhil. Nikhil is part of the plot and agrees to get himself kidnapped to extract money out of his rich but miser father. In the process excess of drugs and uncontrolled anger leads to the murder of Nikhil by Luke. Luke blackmails all others and ensures that nobody leaves or confides into the cops. Meanwhile, Shiuli also gets entangled in the plot. The money hungry youngsters then go on to kill the father of Nikhil and a cop (Sharat Saxena) investigating the murder. The plot thickens with a set of betrayal and counter-betrayal leading to an interesting end.Cast
- Kay Kay Menon as Luke Morrison
- Aditya Shrivastava as Murgi
- Vijay Maurya as Pondy
- Joy Fernandes as Joy
- Tejaswini Kolhapure as Shiuli
- Vijay Raj as Anish Ranjan
- Sharat Saxena as Inspector Deshpande
- Pankaj Saraswat as Nikhil
Soundtrack
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,[3] and marked the entry of the music publisher into the Hindi film music market.[4]| 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 |
Production
In September 1993, while Kashyap stayed at the St. Xavier's Boys Hostel, he used to hang out with Adam Avil, Eddie Avil, Luke Kenny and Ulysses Veyra 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.[5] Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj[6] Later on, while working with Nair, he came across files related to the Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders that took place in Pune in 1976.[7]"Five very ordinary college kids viciously murdered nine people. I got what I needed to finish my script then."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.[5]
Film festival premiere
Paanch was screened at Filmfest Hamburg in 2003,[8] Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema as closing film in 2005,[9] Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2006[10] and at Jagran Film Festival in 2016.[11]Paanch (2003) - IMDb
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Rating: 7.7/10 - 1,769 votes
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· Four friends (Luke, Murgi, Joy and Pondy) wasted by youth and self
destruction play together in a band along with a fifth female member
(Shiuli). Luke the lead singer and self-imposed . .... The movie unfolds the sensational story of his pre-detention life - his secret experiments on eliminating any virus ... See full ...
Four friends (Luke, Murgi, Joy and Pondy) wasted by
youth and self destruction play together in a band along with a fifth
female member (Shiuli). Luke the lead singer and self-imposed ...
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Storyline
Four friends (Luke, Murgi, Joy and Pondy) wasted by youth and self
destruction play together in a band along with a fifth female member
(Shiuli). Luke the lead singer and self-imposed leader of the pack
ensures his dominance in the group by providing accommodation, drugs and
food for his wasted and broke friends. Pondy is fascinated by Shiuli
who sleeps with rich guys for money. The movie revolves around a
kidnapping plot gone wrong, in which the 4 male band members plan to
kidnap another friend Nikhil. Nikhil is part of the plot and agrees to
get himself kidnapped to extract money out of his rich but miser father.
In the process excess of drugs and uncontrolled anger leads to the
murder of Nikhil by Luke. Luke blackmails all others and ensures that
nobody leaves or confides into the cops. Meanwhile Shiuli also gets
entangled into the plot. The money hungry youngsters then go on to kill
the father of Nikhil and a cop (Sharat Saxena) investigating the murder.
The plot thickens with a ... Written by
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Music by Vishal Bhardwaj
Lyrics by Abbas Tyrewala
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Watch it for KAY KAY
Saw it finally, after a
long long wait. It is an engaging piece but not a path breaking,
shattering one as I found in some other reviews before the Internet
preview release.
My points, Cinematography and Art direction right from credits to last frame (i would combine these as they gave the whole feeling) are splendid capturing the entire feel of youth's agony, their ambitions, their fear and the entire feeling of being locked up in a room or a garage or in a police station (claustrophobic feeling). The outdoors are though minimal and not extravagant, they are done with finesse. No green scenery's here and no sunset sunrise scenes. Yet they are captivating enough to endear, enthrall and to transform into the world of these characters.
Editing, nope that's one thing I felt is not up to the mark, the reason may be that its the director's and editor's first movie and a sharper scissor was needed. The scenes I would like to cut are 1) The end song in which the girl sings same one as she has sung earlier 2) The scene in which Luke strangles Nikhil's father (this was later communicated in dialogue) 3) The scene where Pondy and Joy are shown as being taken to Jail (this was later communicated in dialogue). Thus felt like these were like spoon feeding. Acting of Kay Kay as Luke Morrison is just awesome and equally appreciable is that of Vijay Maurya as Pondy. I did not like the acting of Tejaswini, I felt she just sleep walked. Background music is apt 3 songs are great. Main Khuda, Baith Jaa, Akhiyan. Vishal Bharadwaj gave an awesome sound track and thanks to him.
Now, the thing to writing, the dialogues are wonderful "Aye Pondy Chaai Piyega, Chal Mere Liye Ek Banaa" reveals the domineering attitude of Luke and so is each dialogue relevant to the characterization.
The script has made me ask some questions to myself and some questions to the writer director Anurag, 1) If the entire confession in police station was about money then police at any point did not seem to be interested in where the money that was stolen was kept and all they were interested is why were the murder's that took place happen. 2) Was it necessary for Joy to have the other guys waiting outside Nikhil's house after they stole the money they wanted? He was just eating and these guys went in and when they found that Nikhil's father was there, they just strangled him. Without this also it would have been done as how the police came to know about murder of Nikhil's father and kidnap of Nikhil was not shown anyways and that was not the point of movie also. 3) The most disappointing thing was that Luke who was shown as if he was drowned just comes alive. This seemed to be a twist and this made the movie predictable as to who shall have the final laugh. And there in lay the antagonist of a wonderful script.
Direction no doubt is superb. But what started as a very very interesting and psychological thing with each shade of a character being revealed poignantly. What started as a very interesting and psychological movie turned out to be a thriller kind where the ending was predictable and so called commercial. Yet its one thing that should be watched out to know what a angry young man does (for KAY KAY).
My points, Cinematography and Art direction right from credits to last frame (i would combine these as they gave the whole feeling) are splendid capturing the entire feel of youth's agony, their ambitions, their fear and the entire feeling of being locked up in a room or a garage or in a police station (claustrophobic feeling). The outdoors are though minimal and not extravagant, they are done with finesse. No green scenery's here and no sunset sunrise scenes. Yet they are captivating enough to endear, enthrall and to transform into the world of these characters.
Editing, nope that's one thing I felt is not up to the mark, the reason may be that its the director's and editor's first movie and a sharper scissor was needed. The scenes I would like to cut are 1) The end song in which the girl sings same one as she has sung earlier 2) The scene in which Luke strangles Nikhil's father (this was later communicated in dialogue) 3) The scene where Pondy and Joy are shown as being taken to Jail (this was later communicated in dialogue). Thus felt like these were like spoon feeding. Acting of Kay Kay as Luke Morrison is just awesome and equally appreciable is that of Vijay Maurya as Pondy. I did not like the acting of Tejaswini, I felt she just sleep walked. Background music is apt 3 songs are great. Main Khuda, Baith Jaa, Akhiyan. Vishal Bharadwaj gave an awesome sound track and thanks to him.
Now, the thing to writing, the dialogues are wonderful "Aye Pondy Chaai Piyega, Chal Mere Liye Ek Banaa" reveals the domineering attitude of Luke and so is each dialogue relevant to the characterization.
The script has made me ask some questions to myself and some questions to the writer director Anurag, 1) If the entire confession in police station was about money then police at any point did not seem to be interested in where the money that was stolen was kept and all they were interested is why were the murder's that took place happen. 2) Was it necessary for Joy to have the other guys waiting outside Nikhil's house after they stole the money they wanted? He was just eating and these guys went in and when they found that Nikhil's father was there, they just strangled him. Without this also it would have been done as how the police came to know about murder of Nikhil's father and kidnap of Nikhil was not shown anyways and that was not the point of movie also. 3) The most disappointing thing was that Luke who was shown as if he was drowned just comes alive. This seemed to be a twist and this made the movie predictable as to who shall have the final laugh. And there in lay the antagonist of a wonderful script.
Direction no doubt is superb. But what started as a very very interesting and psychological thing with each shade of a character being revealed poignantly. What started as a very interesting and psychological movie turned out to be a thriller kind where the ending was predictable and so called commercial. Yet its one thing that should be watched out to know what a angry young man does (for KAY KAY).
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