Jaani Dushman

Jaani Dushman
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rajkumar Kohli
Produced by Rajkumar Kohli
Written by
Screenplay by
  • Jaggiram Paul
  • Charandas Shokh
Story by Hakim Lata
Starring
Music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Cinematography Baldev Singh
Edited by Shyam
Production
company
Shankar Movies
Release date
  • 25 May 1979 (1979-05-25)
Running time
 153 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Jaani Dushman (English: Lifetime Enemy) is a 1979 Bollywood horror fantasy thriller film, produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli under the Shankar Movies banner. It features a huge ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Mehra, Reena Roy, Rekha and Neetu Singh in lead roles, with music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The film is recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.[1]

Plot

Jwala Prasad is to marry the girl of his dreams. On the day of the marriage, his wife is dressed all in red, mixes poison in the milk, (the saga does not end here) and Jwala becomes a monster, and continues to terrorize the region, first abducting brides dressed in red and killing them. When a groom confronts and kills the monster, it leaves the body of Jwala Prasad and possesses the body of his killer. And the terror continues. Years later, another man has now killed this creature, and the monster has possessed the man's body, and it is again on a killing spree. The suspense mounts as one by one the brides are killed off and no one seems to have a clue. Everybody seems to be suspect, including the village Priest, the Thakur, his son, and several other people.The suspense is unraveled in the end and the monster is made to promise that he will no longer possess any person and will not carry on with his killing spree. The movie was a box office hit of 1979 and all of the songs of this film became hits. It is a horror story.

Cast

Soundtrack

#TitleSinger(s)
1 "Tere Haathon Mein" Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
2 "Sare Rishte Naate Todke Aai" Lata Mangeshkar
3 "Chalo Re Doli Uthao Kahar" Mohammed Rafi
4 "O Meri Jaan" Kishore Kumar, Anuradha Paudwal
5 "Arey Sun Bhai Sadho" Kishore Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor, Asha Bhonsle
6 "Aisi waisi na samajh sajna" Asha Bhonsle

Trivia

Two of the movie songs were listed in Binaca Chart of 1979; Chalo re Doli by Mohd Rafi and Oh mere Jaan by Kishore Kumar and Anuradha Paudwal.

References

  1. ↑ "FRIDAY REVIEW-Jaani Dushman (1979)". The Hindu. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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