A question of bad taste
Identify this film and its director. George, Vibhendu, and Harish are banned from participating. There are, as we say in our dirty trade, clues to make it "workable". If you use a search engine, I will send nameless horrors to visit upon you.Crew la de vilThere you go. Answers in comments if you're fool/brave-hardy.
This film features as its lead actors, Sanjeev Kumar, Sunil Dutt, and Shatrughan Sinha. "Above all" is Jeetendra. This film probably holds the Frams book of dubious awards for the most number of "special appearances" such as Premnath, Vinod Mehra, Neetu Singh, Bindiya Goswami, Reena Roy, Rekha, and Sarika. The film also boasts of an equally large number of "guest appearances", such as Aruna Irani, Jagdeep, Paintal, and Jayashree T. The difference between "special" and "guest" appearances is that the ones under the former appear almost throughout the film, while most of the latter come every 30 minutes.There are also a bunch of villains, including a special guest (my words) appearance by Amrish Puri. Shatrughan Sinha also has a singing credit in this film. The late Bunny Reuben is credited as "Bunny Robin".
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The film suffers from a massive Sholay-aspirational hangover. Sanjeev Kumar plays a grim and tortured Thakur, the leading men attempt to wear curry western outfits from the House of Chambal, the hilly locales are airlifted and airbrushed from Ramnagaram, the local village is (allegedly) tormented by mostly absent bandits. Rekha is trying to do an Amitabh-in-Awadh impression, and the dress designers decamped with most of the clothes except a 'laal-joDaa-wedding-ka', leaving all the gals exposed. Sunil Dutt needs anatomy lessons as he is unable to deduce the gender of a moustachio-ed Reena Roy from point-blank range. Madan Puri lands the A.K.Hangal slot, but with a twist - he is only pretending to be a blind man.Plotter's wheel reinvented
The plot is very simple, but only deceptively so. A black hairy monster starts to wipe the earth clean of brand new brides attired in red, and possesses the parasitic gift of taking rent-free residence in males passing by. After scenes involving Amrish Puri and set in a train compartment the size of a football field, the action moves to the afore-mentioned village. Sunil Dutt and Shatru are the local alpha males, also involved in what seems to be a love tetrahedron. This is an excellent excuse to go off traipsing around trees and waterfalls in real, imaginary, and complex song sequences.The plot thus alternates between the following 3.5 threads:
1. wedding happens - bride goes missing at nearby temple (which, despite its increasingly gory reputation, never ceases to be a centre of tourism)
2. Shatru and Sunil clash, usually in the town centre, and eye and get eyed amorously by 3 other ladies.
3. Meanwhile, at an altitude above all of them, Jeetu and Neetu perform Pilates in polyester in full view of her approving brother Dutt-saab. Cut to even more song sequences.
3.5. A comedy relief thread featuring Jagdeep, Paintal and Jayashree T., which is as frequent as Halley's Comet, which is a relief in itself.Lost clue
I was watching this on Zee Cinema, but it took so long that the horror angle got swamped by the rest. I couldn't complete it, so I don't know how it ends. The fact that it must have ended makes it a happy ending.
15 comments:
The first one is Nagin (the one that didn't have Sridevi).
The remaining, I have no clue.
Btw, Fool 'n Final (I love that 'n there), was inspired by ______. ? (the period is the hint there. hee hee)
Teja: sorry if the post was misleading, but the entire description is about the same film. And no, it isn't "Nagin", but "Nagin" is a decent clue in turn.
I know the src film, but I didn't know about the full stop until just now (George had to step in). Dhanyavaad for trivia-bit.
"I know the src film," - was referring to F 'n F. What say we make an Alien vs Predator style "Neal 'n Nikki meets Fool 'n Final"? Scary, eh?
Man!! all talking about the same movie? It must be Nagina then. Or Nageenaa. Maybe too early for that bit of craze.
Speaking of which, I came across two really good ones today (what odds):
Aanjjan Srivastava (our very own Mr. Wagle) - sad
Audithya - some Kannada actor. Wonder if he worked for one of the big 5, or whatever.
Horrified to hear about the 'strange' case of Srivastava. Audithya is hilarous.
In related news, the man formerly known as Anu Malik is (as of Jun 5th, 11:42 am) now Annu Malek.
No N[a]+g[i|e]+n[a]+s. Try a different tack.
Jaani Dushman.. though I do not know the director .. One of a kind movie ;)
And talking abt Jaani Dushman there was another movie Jaani Dushman - Anokhee Kahani... around 4 yrs back again with a weird story and a large cast ;)
PS: I do not have a fetish for watching such movie I just happen to watch them on... Zee Cinema :D ..
It is Jaani Dushman. Though I've no idea about the director. I've seen that movie, though since it was on DD I didn't have to sit through a deluge of ads.
"Jaani Dushman" is my guess, dunno about the director.
Meghashyam
Vinayak, Rohan, 10^6: very well done.
"Jaani Dushman" indeed. As Vinayak may not have realised, the new "Jaani Dushman - Ek Anokhi Kahani" is extremely relevant, as the necessary clues actually point to it: humungous cast, crazy supernatural plot, bridal fetish, badly placed songs, poor dancing - the works.
The connection is that both the films are directed by the same person, the old one in 1979, and the new one from a few years ago.
So we're still open for the name of the director. Give it a shot - he's a must-know!
Ah... It was Jani-Dushman. Should've seen the post earlier :-). And from what I remember from my childhood, this movie was a big hit. BTW, I have seen Rekha do, cringe inspiring, I must say, Amitabh impression in another movie, with VinoD Mehra playing Doc in the Village.
It was Sanjeev Kumar with the Resident Evil, as I remember. Got to see this movie again ;-)
It is Jaani Dushman by Rajkumar Kohli..Daemon pointed the end of the movie..:-)
Daemon, yogesh: well done.
Indeed, Rajkumar Kohli was responsible for both the "Jaani Dushman*" movies, the second to re-launch his son. Quite a scary output for one man.
where is Anjan srivastava great actor
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