Review of Paanch

Paanch (2003)
8/10
Intense, real yet surreal
8 October 2008
Warning: Spoilers
As Joy looks around at the room for the last time I knew I was going to 'miss this home'.... When i read the graffiti on the wall -Kafka, Van Gogh, Michelangelo were unrecognized geniuses in their life. Recognise me- i 'remembered' watching Luke write it. When Luke sang Sar jhuka... i shared and 'knew' Luke's angst that wrote that song and music. When Pondy is in the loo I admonish myself for 'letting the daal in the cooker overflow'...

Watched the movie at some film festival just once and i still can relive the world i lived in for the nearly three hours. It was so real... each progressive twist of fate and human action so natural and yet so unpredictable. A dark journey like one i take in my mind in my darkest moments.

What is the max IQ level limit for being a censor board member? 20? I hear it hadn't been cleared by the censor board. It would do me and the other Indian audiences a truck load of good if it releases even today. Watching this movie makes you so angry that there is so much fluff in the name of films that we subsist on here while diamonds like this one are buried.

Then you say why only 8 out of 10? Well for someone who watches 'noir' films now this seemed like a very good thriller that fits the genre but there were parts that i felt could be tighter like the end sequence or the sequence where Luke and gang stay back after robbing the marwari could have been as seamless as the other events. But if i had watched it in 2000 when it was to be released i would have given it a 10.
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