Adam Avil, Eddie Avil, Luke Kenny and Ulysses Veyra the members of a band—Greek (later Pralay). He took copious notes on how they lead their lives—forty pages of a small notebook, and began writing the script—"in bits and pieces"—for a film that he called Mirage, but which would later become Paanch. Kashyap had seen ex-VJ Luke Kenny in a Vikram Kapadia play, and approached him with an incomplete script, but nothing came out of it. Anurag Kashyap Interview Excerpts from the interview (in Hindi) conducted by Pravesh Bhardwaj and Ajay Brahmatmaj Later on, while working with Nair, he came across files related to the Joshi-Abhyankar Serial Murders that took place in Pune in 1976. He had also seen a film, Fun (1995), about two mentally unstable girls murdering an elderly woman. Kashyap says— Film festival premiere Paanch was screened at Filmfest Hamburg in 2003, Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema as closing film in 2005, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in 2006 and at Jagran Film Festival in 2016. References External links Paanch at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles portal Paanch at Jagran Film Festival portal 2003 films Unreleased Hindi-language films Indian films based on actual events Crime films based on actual events M Indian crime thriller films 2000s Hindi-language films Films directed by Anurag Kashyap Films set in 1976 Films set in 1977 Films scored by Vishal Bhardwaj Films with screenplays by Anurag Kashyap 2003 directorial debut films