Dev D was a twisted take on Devdas, the classic tale of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, which was previously adapted for the screen by a maverick director like Bimal Roy and the master of grandeur Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Kashyap kept up his efforts at rabble-rousing through his subsequent films like Black Friday, No Smoking, Dev D and That Girl in Yellow Boots. Later, Shaitan, a film directed by Bejoy Nambiar and produced by Kashyap, was released in 2011 and it bore a mark of being a revamped version of Paanch. The film was also Vishal Bharadwaj’s first break as a music composer. Vikramaditya Motwane, who went on to make the brilliant film Udaan, which represented India at the Un Certain Regard category of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, was the sound designer for Paanch. The film was ambitious and had displayed grit and fervor for depicting the subaltern. Its unapologetic approach to substance abuse and violence made it unsuitable for public exhibition. Many feel Paanch was ahead of its time for Hindi cinema. It had reminded me of another overwhelming opening sequence – that of Fernando Meirelles’ City of God. The opening credit sequence of the film is enough to make one’s mind spin. Similar to Paanch – Raman Raghav 2.0 : Man is the cruelest animal! The film never saw the light of day because of censor issues, but the film has been made available online, albeit illegally. It was still a year before he made his first and most cursed feature film Paanch. He is the archetypal enfant terrible who has run into conflicts because of his radical approach and has yet not stepped back from making films and telling stories which he has felt people (or at least a section of them) should be exposed to.Īfter co-writing the screenplay of Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya, he ventured into directing in 1999 and made his first film Last Train to Mahakali as a television film. His thought processes are unlike any other contemporary filmmaker, and he is constantly trying to push the boundaries with his screenplays which bear intriguing concepts and ideas which afflict the comfortable. 17 Years of ‘Paanch’: Anurag Kashyap is perhaps the most enigmatic and visionary filmmaker working in the Hindi film industry right now.
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