Paheli (2005)
Kishanlal marries the beautiful Lachchi, but the day after the wedding, he leaves on business for five years. When Kishanlal reappears only a few days later, Lachchi is delighted, but this new Kishanlal is in fact a spirit who has taken the form of Lachchi's husband, after having seen her by chance and fallen in love with her. Four years later, the real Kishanlal returns and the townsfolk must determine who is who.
Director:
Amol Palekar
Writer:
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 |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Story |
| Camera | V Hariprasad | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi | Sound Re-Recording Assistant |
| Directing | Sachin Bokil | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Anuj Mathur | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Baylon Fonseca | Sound Mixer |
| Production | Shah Rukh Khan | Producer |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Screenplay |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Sandhya Gokhale | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Sudheer K. Sudhakaran | Focus Puller |
| Camera | Piyush Acharya | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Muneesh Sappel | Art Direction |
| Directing | Punit Malhotra | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Pushkaraj Raj Paranjpe | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Dialogue |
| Lighting | Ayananka Bose | Gaffer |
| Directing | Harish Senapati | Assistant Director |
| Production | Sanjiv Chawla | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Hari Vendantam | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Neena Naishabh | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ravi K. Chandran | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ali Merchant | ADR & Dubbing |
| Directing | Tarun Mansukhani | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ajith V Reddy | Focus Puller |
| Crew | Farah Khan | Choreographer |
| Directing | Vaibhav Misra | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Amol Palekar | Story |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Novel |
| Sound | Umar Khan | Location Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Prakash Shetty | Gaffer |
| Sound | Anup Dev | Location Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Location Sound Recordist |
| Camera | Raaj Chakravarti | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Aadesh Shrivastava | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | M.M. Keeravaani | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Haroon A Mirza | Assistant Director |
| Production | Gauri Khan | Producer |
| Editing | Amitabh Shukla | Editor |