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 |
| 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 |