Paheli - Die Schöne und der Geist (2005)
Die schöne Lachchi wird mit Kishan verheiratet, dem Sohn des steinreichen und obergeizigen Händlers Bhanwarlal aus Rajastan. Doch schon in der Hochzeitsnacht lässt Kishan seine Gattin links liegen. Da er mehr am Geld und Segen seines Vaters interessiert ist, beschließt er für fünf Jahre zu verreisen, um noch mehr Reichtum anzusammeln. Lachchis Herz ist gebrochen. Doch dann steht Kishan plötzlich wieder im Haus. Lachchi ist überglücklich. Allerdings stellt sich bald heraus, dass es nicht Kishan selbst ist, sondern ein Geist, der aus Liebe zu Lachchi die Gestalt Kishans Gestalt angenommen hatte. Lachchi muss sich entscheiden, ob sie fünf Jahre ein Leben mit einem sympathischen Abbild ihres kühlen Gatten verbringen will. Sie entscheidet sich für die Liebe und den Geist. Doch dann kommt der echte Kishan ...
Der Regisseur:
Amol Palekar
Der Autor:
Sandhya Gokhale
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Shah Rukh Khan as Kishanlal / Ghost |
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Rani Mukerji as Lachchi |
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Anupam Kher as Bhanwarlal |
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Aditi Gowitrikar as Kamli |
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Rajpal Yadav as Bhoja |
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Dilip Prabhavalkar as Kanwarlal |
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Palak Jain as Kishanlal's Cousin |
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A.K. Hangal as Jeevraj |
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Ratna Pathak Shah as Female Puppet (Voice) |
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Naseeruddin Shah as Male Puppet (Voice) |
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Amitabh Bachchan as Gadariya (Special Appearance) |
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Juhi Chawla Mehta as Gajrobai (Special Appearance) |
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Suniel Shetty as Sunderlal (Special Appearance) |
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Mohan Bhandari as Thakur |
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Preeti Gupta as The berries girl |
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Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Banwari |
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Aasif Sheikh as Ghost |
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Lekh Tandon as Wise Man 1 |
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Surendra Rajan as Wise Man 3 |
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Rajkumar Kanojia as Messenger |
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Nina Kulkarni as Mrs. Bhanwarlal |
| Directing | Amol Palekar | Director |
| Camera | V Hariprasad | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Harish Senapati | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Sudheer K. Sudhakaran | Focus Puller |
| Sound | Baylon Fonseca | Sound Mixer |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Dialogue |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Hari Vendantam | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Punit Malhotra | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Pushkaraj Raj Paranjpe | Assistant Director |
| Production | Shah Rukh Khan | Producer |
| Lighting | Ayananka Bose | Gaffer |
| Lighting | Prakash Shetty | Gaffer |
| Editing | Amitabh Shukla | Editor |
| Directing | Haroon A Mirza | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ravi K. Chandran | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ali Merchant | ADR & Dubbing |
| Production | Gauri Khan | Producer |
| Sound | Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi | Sound Re-Recording Assistant |
| Directing | Sachin Bokil | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Vaibhav Misra | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Umar Khan | Location Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Sandhya Gokhale | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Anup Dev | Location Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Tarun Mansukhani | Assistant Director |
| Production | Sanjiv Chawla | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Amol Palekar | Story |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Novel |
| Camera | Ajith V Reddy | Focus Puller |
| Crew | Farah Khan | Choreographer |
| Directing | Neena Naishabh | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Story |
| Sound | M.M. Keeravaani | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Anuj Mathur | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Location Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Raaj Chakravarti | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Aadesh Shrivastava | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Screenplay |
| Camera | Piyush Acharya | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Muneesh Sappel | Art Direction |