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Jaadugar is a 1989 Hindi
film directed by Prakash Mehra
and starring Amitabh Bachchan
, Jaya Prada
, Aditya Pancholi
, Amrita Singh
, Amrish Puri
and Pran. Prakash Mehra
and Amitabh Bachchan
collaborated for seventh time for this movie (Previous movies being Khoon Pasina
, Hera Pheri
, Muqaddar ka Sikander
, Laawaris, Namak Halal and Sharaabi
). This was last collaboration between Prakash Mehra
and Amitabh Bachchan
.
But actually Goga is not power-hungry as he seems to be. Mahaprabhu however refuses to give up & uses all deceitful methods to expose the fact that Goga is just a mortal & its him who actually is divine. He tries to poison the 'Prasad' that Goga gives to his 'followers' but they all escape. In the end, Goga completely exposes 'Mahaprabhu' in fornt of the whole public along with the fact that he himself is a common man who posed as a 'Divine' man just to match & teach 'Mahaprabhu'. He then returns back to his best- Being the people's magician...
This was the final film of Prakash Mehra
with Amitabh Bachchan
which though didn't do well at the box-office, but was praised for its unique story & great performance by its total cast. The film is also best remembered for its many confrontation scenes between Amitabh Bachchan
& Amrish Puri
.
This movie was based on the Sathya Sai Baba
organisation.
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
film directed by Prakash Mehra
Prakash Mehra
-Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...
and starring Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
, Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada is an Indian film actress and politician. She has starred in hundreds of Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi films.-Early life:...
, Aditya Pancholi
Aditya Pancholi
Aditya Pancholi is an Indian film actor working in Hindi Cinema. Aditya has also proved his worth in many villainous roles as well, the recent being Dum Maro Dum. His performance in Yes Boss and the double role in Jung was very well received.-Early life:He's the son of the filmmaker Rajan...
, Amrita Singh
Amrita Singh
Amrita Singh is an Indian film actress.-Early life:Amrita is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana. Mohinder Kaur was the daughter of Sir Sobha Singh, who was a noted civil contractor, and made a substantial fortune during the building of New Delhi in the early decades of the 20th century...
, Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri
Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
and Pran. Prakash Mehra
Prakash Mehra
-Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...
and Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
collaborated for seventh time for this movie (Previous movies being Khoon Pasina
Khoon Pasina
Khoon Pasina is a 1977 Hindi movie. The movie is produced by Baboo Mehra and directed by Rakesh Kumar. The movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rekha, Nirupa Roy, Helen, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Bharat Bhushan and Kader Khan. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji.This was another 'blockbuster' movie...
, Hera Pheri
Hera Pheri
Hera Pheri is a 2000 Hindi comedy film directed by Priyadarshan starring Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Sunil Shetty and Tabu. The story of the film is based on the 1989 Malayalam film Ramji Rao Speaking, which was also remade into Tamil as Arangetra Velai in the same year. The film spawned a sequel,...
, Muqaddar ka Sikander
Muqaddar Ka Sikander
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar is a 1978 Indian Hindi film. Produced and directed by Prakash Mehra, it stars Amitabh Bachchan in his third out of six films with Prakash Mehra to date. The films also stars Vinod Khanna, Raakhee Gulzar, Rekha and Amjad Khan...
, Laawaris, Namak Halal and Sharaabi
Sharaabi
Sharaabi is a 1984 Indian Hindi movie produced and directed by Prakash Mehra. This was Prakash Mehra's last hit and sixth in a row with Amitabh, the other five being Zanjeer, Hera Pheri, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Laawaris and Namak Halaal...
). This was last collaboration between Prakash Mehra
Prakash Mehra
-Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...
and Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
.
Plot
American-returned Shankar Narayan is baffled to witness his former businessman and jailbird dad posing as a soothsayer by the name of Mahaprabhu Janak Sagar Jagat Narayan in a small town called Dharampur. He comes to know that his dad has learned a few magician's tricks from a fellow-inmate, and is able to fool the entire township with his "divine" powers. Shankar enlists the assistance of noted magician Goga, and brings him to Dharampur. Goga challenges the Mahaprabhu; is able to dethrone him; oust him from his temple, and takes over. His task over, Shankar asks Goga to leave, but power-hungry Goga, who now calls himself Gogeshwar, refuses to let go of his new-found position.But actually Goga is not power-hungry as he seems to be. Mahaprabhu however refuses to give up & uses all deceitful methods to expose the fact that Goga is just a mortal & its him who actually is divine. He tries to poison the 'Prasad' that Goga gives to his 'followers' but they all escape. In the end, Goga completely exposes 'Mahaprabhu' in fornt of the whole public along with the fact that he himself is a common man who posed as a 'Divine' man just to match & teach 'Mahaprabhu'. He then returns back to his best- Being the people's magician...
This was the final film of Prakash Mehra
Prakash Mehra
-Career:Born on 13 July 1939 at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India, Mehra started in the late 1950s as a production controller. In 1968, he directed Shashi Kapoor who played a double role in Haseena Maan Jayegi. This was followed by the 1971 hit Mela starring the Khan brothers together. In 1973, he...
with Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
which though didn't do well at the box-office, but was praised for its unique story & great performance by its total cast. The film is also best remembered for its many confrontation scenes between Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
& Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri
Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
.
This movie was based on the Sathya Sai Baba
Sathya Sai Baba
Śri Sathya Sai Baba , born as Sathyanarayana Raju was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist, and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi, a spiritual saint and miracle worker who died in 1918 and whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and...
organisation.
Cast
- Amrish PuriAmrish PuriAmrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
... Mahaprabhu Jagatsagar Chintamani - Amitabh BachchanAmitabh BachchanAmitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
... Goga - Jayapradha ... Meena
- Raza MuradRaza MuradRaza Murad is an Indian actor working primarily in Hindi films. He has acted in over 200 Bollywood films.He is the son of renowned Bollywood character actor Murad. He is also the first cousin of Zeenat Aman, his uncle being Amanullah Khan, writer of Mughal-e-Azam and Pakeezah. His niece Sonam was...
... Rajbharti - Aditya PancholiAditya PancholiAditya Pancholi is an Indian film actor working in Hindi Cinema. Aditya has also proved his worth in many villainous roles as well, the recent being Dum Maro Dum. His performance in Yes Boss and the double role in Jung was very well received.-Early life:He's the son of the filmmaker Rajan...
... Shankar Narayan - Amrita SinghAmrita SinghAmrita Singh is an Indian film actress.-Early life:Amrita is the daughter of Rukhsana Sultana. Mohinder Kaur was the daughter of Sir Sobha Singh, who was a noted civil contractor, and made a substantial fortune during the building of New Delhi in the early decades of the 20th century...
... Mona - Pran ... Gajender
- Harbans Darshan M. Arora ... Police Inspector (as Harbans Darshan)
- Vikas Anand ... Kanchan
- Bharat BhushanBharat BhushanBharat Bhushan was an Indian bollywood actor, scriptwriter and producer, who is best remembered for playing Baiju Bawra in the 1952 film of the same name. He was born in Meerut, and brought up in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.-Personal Life:...
... Gyaneshwar - Ram SethiRam SethiRam Sethi is an Indian actor.-Biography:Sethi entered the Indian film industry in 1969, and started off his career as an assistant to Ravi Tandon . After doing some free-lance work, he joined Prakash Mehra, and was employed as his right-hand man for over 20 years...
... Pyarelal - Bob Christo ... Bob
- Leena Das ... Florie
- C.S. Dubey ... Pujari
- K.S. Ramesh ... Himself (Magician)
- Gorilla ... Bajrangi
- Satyendra Kapoor ... Police Commissioner
- Johnny LeverJohnny LeverJohn Prakasa Rao Janumala famously known as Johnny Lever is an Indian film actor and comedian. He was born to Prakash Rao Janumala and Karunamma Janumala and brought up in Mumbai. He started his career in 1984 and has acted in over 350 Bollywood films...
... Nilkant - Ram MohanRam MohanRam Mohan is a veteran in the Indian animation industry, who started his career at the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division, Government of India in 1956...
... M.L.A. - MukriMukri"Mukri" was born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in 1922 in Alibagh. He started his film career from film "Pratima" along with notable Indian film actor Dilip Kumar in 1945....
... Nathulal - Babbanlal Yadav ... Gambler