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 |
| Directing | Harish Senapati | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Haroon A Mirza | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Neena Naishabh | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Punit Malhotra | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Pushkaraj Raj Paranjpe | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sachin Bokil | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sandhya Gokhale | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Tarun Mansukhani | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Vaibhav Misra | Assistant Director |
| Production | Gauri Khan | Producer |
| Production | Shah Rukh Khan | Producer |
| Production | Sanjiv Chawla | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Amol Palekar | Story |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Story |
| Writing | Vijayadan Detha | Novel |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Screenplay |
| Writing | Sandhya Gokhale | Dialogue |
| Camera | Ravi K. Chandran | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Hari Vendantam | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Piyush Acharya | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V Hariprasad | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Sudheer K. Sudhakaran | Focus Puller |
| Camera | Ajith V Reddy | Focus Puller |
| Camera | Raaj Chakravarti | Camera Operator |
| Lighting | Ayananka Bose | Gaffer |
| Lighting | Prakash Shetty | Gaffer |
| Sound | Aadesh Shrivastava | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | M.M. Keeravaani | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Anuj Mathur | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Ali Merchant | ADR & Dubbing |
| Sound | Anup Dev | Location Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Location Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Umar Khan | Location Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Baylon Fonseca | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Subir Kumar Das | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi | Sound Re-Recording Assistant |
| Art | Muneesh Sappel | Art Direction |
| Crew | Farah Khan | Choreographer |
| Editing | Amitabh Shukla | Editor |