Paanch

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{{Infobox film
| name = Paanch
| native_name =
| image = Paanch poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Anurag Kashyap]]
| producer = [[Padmini Kolhapure]] (presenter) Tutu Sharma Jaydev Banerjee
| writer = Anurag Kashyap
| starring = [[Kay Kay Menon]] [[Aditya Srivastava]] [[Vijay Maurya]] Joy Fernandes [[Tejaswini Kolhapure]]
| music = [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]
| cinematography = [[Natarajan Subramaniam]]
| editing = [[Aarti Bajaj]]
|studio = Padmini Films
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2003|||[[Filmfest Hamburg]]|2005|||[[Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema]]|2006|||[[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles]]|2016|||[[Jagran Film Festival]]}}
| runtime = 130 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Hindi]]
| budget = {{INRConvert|2|c}}
}}

'''''Paanch''''' (English: ''Five'') is an 2003 Indian [[crime film|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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20011022/cinema.shtml |title=Total Recall |access-date=12 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034552/http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20011022/cinema.shtml |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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 2003. However, it could not be released as the producer faced problems. It then was made available through torrent websites.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/1226649/report-anurag-kashyap-is-jinxed-no-more | title = Anurag Kashyap is jinxed no more | author = Aniruddha Guha | date = 1 February 2009 | newspaper = [[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]] }}</ref> The film was later screened in several film festivals.

==Plot==
Four friends, Luke ([[Kay Kay Menon]]), Murgi ([[Aditya Shrivastava]]), Joy (Joy Fernandes) and Pondy ([[Vijay Maurya]]) are wasted by youth and self-destruction and play together in a band along with a fifth female member named Shiuli ([[Tejaswini Kolhapure]]). 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 four male band members plan to kidnap another friend Nikhil (Pankaj Saraswat). 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 Srivastava]] 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,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042806021948 |title=Paanch - music review by Mandeep Bahra - Planet Bollywood |access-date=12 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172532/http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=042806021948 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and marked the entry of the music publisher into the Hindi film music market.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120307074844/http://cricket.expressindia.com/old/fulliestory.php?content_id=45233 BMG Crescendo Makes A Debut In Hindi Film Music]</ref>

{{tracklist
| title1 = Main Khuda
| note1 = performed by [[KK (singer)|K.K.]]
| length1 = 6:06
| title2 = Ye Kaisa Hai Shaher
| note2 = performed by Dominique
| length2 = 4:22
| title3 = Paka Mat
| note3 = performed by [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]] and K.K.
| length3 = 4:38
| title4 = Paanch Theme
| note4 = performed by Dominique
| length4 = 2:49
| title5 = Ankhiyan Chipki
| note5 = performed by [[Ustad Sultan Khan]]
| length5 = 4:20
| title6 = Jism Hai
| note6 = performed by [[Asha Bhosle]]
| length6 = 3:31
| title7 = Tamas
| note7 = performed by Deva Sen Gupta
| length7 = 4:31
| title8 = Main Khuda
| note8 = performed by [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]
| length8 = 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.<ref name="pahli-seedi">[http://chavannichap.blogspot.com/2008/11/0-1993-0-0-0-1993-0-1995-0-0-0-0-0-0.html The 'Pahli Seedi']</ref> Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj<ref name="fe">[http://www.financialexpress.com/news/audacious-irreverent-yet-refreshingly-original/177107/0 Audacious, irreverent, yet refreshingly original]</ref> Later on, while working with Nair, he came across files related to the [[Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders]] that took place in [[Pune]] in 1976.<ref name="toi-paanch">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426125203/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-08-10/delhi/27232804_1_board-of-film-certification-hindi-film-abhyankar Total Knockout: A Censor Punch For Paanch]</ref>
{{quote|"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 (film)|Fun]]'', about two mentally unstable girls murdering an elderly woman. And ''Paanch'' was ready to be made into a film. Kashyap says—
{{quote|"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.<ref name="pahli-seedi" />}}

==Film festival premiere==
Paanch was screened at [[Filmfest Hamburg]] in 2003,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zeenews.india.com/home/heres-bollywood-uncensored-the-times-of-india_111295.html |title=Here's Bollywood, uncensored: The Times of India |date=16 July 2003 |publisher=[[Zee News]]}}</ref> [[Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema]] as closing film in 2005,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/on-the-mark/article3714738.ece |title=On the mark |last=Kumar |first=Anuj |date=2 August 2012 |publisher=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref> [[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles]] in 2006<ref name=fest1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/la-film-fest-to-fete-naseer/story-Q9Gzt5U6XPDybr5gzjU9PI.html |title=LA film fest to fete Naseer |last=Chatterjee |first=Saibal |date=8 April 2006 |publisher=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref> and at [[Jagran Film Festival]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/naseeruddin-shah-inaugurates-7th-jagran-film-festival/17395162 |title=Naseeruddin Shah inaugurates 7th Jagran Film Festival |date=2 July 2016 |publisher=[[Mid-Day]]}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist|3}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|356982}}
*[http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/five-paanch/ Paanch] at [[Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles]] portal
*[http://jagranfilmfestival.co.in/?attachment_id=804366 Paanch] at [[Jagran Film Festival]] portal

{{Anurag Kashyap}}

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[[Category:Films directed by Anurag Kashyap]]
[[Category:Films set in 1976]]
[[Category:Films set in 1977]]
[[Category:Films scored by Vishal Bhardwaj]]
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[[Category:2003 directorial debut films]]

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