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Jaani Dushman (1979)

Country of Origin: India
Year of Production: 1979
Running Times:
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: mono (in Hindi)

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Shankar Movies
Producer: Rajkumar Kohli

SCRIPT
Script: Jaggi Ram Pal, Charandas Shokh
Dialogue: Inder Raj Anand

DIRECTION
Director: Rajkumar Kohli

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Baldev Singh

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Shyam

MUSIC
Music: Laxmikant-Pyarelal (real names: Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma)
Songs: Verma Malik
Playback Singers: Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mahendra Kapoor, Mohammad Rafi
Song Recordist: Robin Chatterjee

SOUND
Sound Recordist: J.P. Saigal
Sound Re-Recordist: Mangesh Desai

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Gregory
Costume Designer: Bhanu Athaiya

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Sarosh Modi

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Sant Singh
Assistant Art Director: Sunil Singh

MISCELLANEOUS
Choreographer: Kamal

STUNTS
Stunt Action Director: A. Ghani

CAST
Sunil Dutt (Lakhan)
Jeetendra (Amar)
Sanjeev Kumar (Thakur)
Rekha (Champa)
Reena Roy (Reshma)
Neetu Singh (Gauri)
Shatrughan Sinha (Shera)
Vinod Mehra (madman)
Vikram
Bindiya Goswami (Shanti)
Sarika (Bindiya)
Yogeeta Bali)
Premnath (Pujari)
Aruna Irani (Aruna)
Raza Murad (Thakur Jwala Prasad)
Amrish Puri (man in train)
Madan Puri
Sulochana
Indrani Mukherjee
Shakti Kapoor (man on a horse with his bride)
Paintal
Maruti
Jagdeep
Roopesh Kumar
Anwar Hussain
Sheetal
Mac Mohan
Neeta Mehta
Shobhini Singh
Jayshree T.
Aarti
Ram Soni
Rakesh Roshan

PLOT SUMMARY

The thakur of a village tries to deal with a curse that seems to have been placed on the villagers - every new marriage ends with the bride being spirited away by a terrifying creature. But the Thakur has problems of his own, a pathological fear of red bridal gowns and he himself has become dangerously unhinged...

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Beloved Enemy - English Indian title

LINKS

REMAKE
Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani (2002)

KEYWORDS

monsters, newly-weds