Jaani Dushman


Jaani Dushman is a 1979 Bollywood horror film produced and directed by Rajkumar Kohli under the Shankar Movies banner. It features a huge ensemble cast including Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Vinod Mehra, Rekha, Neetu Singh and Reena Roy in the lead roles and music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The film is recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.

Plot

Jwala Prasad is to marry the girl of his dreams. On the day of the marriage, his wife is dressed all in red, mixes poison in the milk, and Jwala becomes a monster, and continues to terrorize the region, first abducting brides dressed in red and killing them. When a groom confronts and kills the monster, it leaves the body of Jwala Prasad and possesses the body of his killer. Years later, another man has now killed this creature, and the monster has possessed the man's body, and it is again on a killing spree. The suspense mounts as one by one the brides are killed off and no one seems to have a clue. Everybody seems to be suspect, including the village Priest, the Thakur, his son, and several other people. The suspense is unraveled in the end and the monster is made to promise that he will no longer possess any person and will not carry on with his killing spree.

Cast

All lyrics by: Verma Malik

Trivia

Two of the movie songs were listed in Binaca Chart of 1979; Chalo re Doli by Mohd Rafi and Oh mere Jaan by Kishore Kumar and Anuradha Paudwal.