Paanch
- 2003
- 2h 10m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.
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Mukesh S. Bhatt
- Drug Seller
- (as Mukesh Bhatt)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaThe film has never been officially released in any form. A copy of the film was leaked online in 2010. The film might be heading for an OTT release in near future.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Creative Indians: Anurag Kashyap (2018)
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I saw Anurag Kashyap's Paanch at the Cinefan Film Festival, 2002. It was clearly one of the best movies of the festival, on par with movies like Hero and Osama.
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 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 the few minutes after the interval where which seem ineffective and dragged. However, they are easily outweighed by the compelling tension and gloom that permeate the movie.
Clever, brilliant, yet utterly pessimistic, Paanch is strongly recommended.
7.5/10
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 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 the few minutes after the interval where which seem ineffective and dragged. However, they are easily outweighed by the compelling tension and gloom that permeate the movie.
Clever, brilliant, yet utterly pessimistic, Paanch is strongly recommended.
7.5/10
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- Also known as
- Five
- Filming locations
- Elphinstone Technical High School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India(as Elphinstone Technical School)
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- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
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