A knock out of a movie, I saw this at Osian 2003, never forgot it through the last few years. It has been an underground craze for long now. Held up by illiterate censors, it has been threatening to show up in theaters for quite sometime now but dunno why it has not been seen as yet. Seamy, neon lit Bombay captured as never before. A rock group, their aspirations, pretensions and crazy, guttural, gory end to their dreams with a dynamic twist at the end! Through this, five characters played by KayKay, Joy, Tejeswini, Vijay Maurya and Aditya Shrivastav live a sordid life on screen. The moods are dark and thoughts even darker. Anurag Kashyap comes up with a whammy of a script and directs it even better. Shots and lighting that have never been seen before then in Indian cinema. Cinema at its best, even now in goddamn 2008!!
Review of Paanch
