Paanch

Paanch (2003)

पांच

Avoid Life. It Kills You In The End.

Members of a desperate, drug-fueled rock band hatch a fake kidnapping scheme to extort money from a wealthy patriarch. But when a flash of volatile violence crosses an irreversible line, the group spirals into a claustrophobic nightmare of murder, paranoia, and betrayal.

Date of release
2003-09-21
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (20)
Runtime
2h 38m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
Anurag Kashyap

Casting

Interesting facts

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.

Production

In September 1993, Anurag Kashyap stayed at the St. Xavier's Boys Hostel, where he spent time with Adam Avil, Eddie Avil, Luke Kenny, and Ulysses Veyra, members of a band initially named Greek, later renamed Pralay. He documented their daily activities in a small notebook, filling forty pages. These notes served as the foundation for a script he began writing in fragments for a film initially titled Mirage, which eventually became Paanch.

"Five very ordinary college kids viciously murdered nine people. I got what I needed to finish my script then."

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