Two hired muscle, two sheltered sisters, one chaotic Uzbek romance where everyone's playing games.
A wealthy man hires two bodyguards, one a former paratrooper (Qodirov) and the other just released from prison (Soipov), to protect his two daughters, Gulnoza (Ashurboeva) and Dilnoza (Eshonqulova). Whilst at first the girls are reluctant to accept their fate, they soon realise how lucky they are to have the two young men in their lives…
Acting
Qodirov and Soipov's mismatched buddy-chemistry carries the whole thing.
Production
Rare glimpse of late-2000s Uzbek commercial filmmaking at peak ambition.
Director
Rustam Sagdiev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Panoh represents a wave of commercially ambitious Uzbek cinema in the late 2000s, blending Bollywood-length running times with post-Soviet sensibilities.
Director Rustam Sagdiev was known for popular musical comedies; this genre-hybrid attempt was unusually long for domestic audiences.
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