Jaani Dushman (1979)

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A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sunil Dutt ...
Lakhan
Sanjeev Kumar ...
Thakur (Shera's Father)
Shatrughan Sinha ...
Shera
Vinod Mehra ...
Madman
Vikram ...
Shankar
Prem Nath ...
Pujari (priest)
...
Champa
Reena Roy ...
Raja / Reshma
Neetu Singh ...
Bindiya Goswami ...
Shanti
Sarika ...
Bindiya
Yogeeta Bali ...
Thakur's bride (as Yogita Bali)
Neeta Mehta ...
Bride
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Aruna (Ganga Ram's daughter)
Shobhini Singh ...
Bride
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Thakur Jwala Prasad is a wealthy bachelor living in a mansion; he gets marry to the girl of his dreams but finds her in the companion of her lover. He then turns into a monstrous creature killing both his wife and her male lover. This curse does not end here as the monster continues to terrorize the brides of that community; first by abducting them and then take them to an underground cave to kill them. The men of this community are clueless of this killer and arrange encounters to locate him but this does not help and even if they manage to locate this invincible evil force and kill him it will simply re-possess the body of the killer and continue on his rampage. Written by gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

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In 2002 Director Raj Kumar Kohli had made a film with the same name to relaunch his son Armaan Khohli which had elements of both his block bluster films Jaani Dushman (1979)and Nagin (1976) a biggest multi starer of that time which became a total disaster. See more »

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jaani dushman is one of the most fantastic movie
14 September 2000 | by (birmigham,england) – See all my reviews

i think this one of the wicked movies ever made by raj! the story line is fantastics and the whole movie is just supa one of my best movies ever made! jaani


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