Hum Paanch (film)

Hum Paanch (Us Five) is a 1980 Hindi language film directed by Bapu and produced by Boney Kapoor. The film features a huge all-star cast including Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborty, Nasiruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover and Amrish Puri.

Contents

• Cast
• Crew
• Soundtrack
• References

The movie was Boney Kapoor's maiden venture as a producer. A young Anil Kapoor, who is producer Boney Kapoor's brother has a cameo appearance. This film is a remake of 1978 Kannada film Paduvaaralli Pandavaru, directed by renowned director Puttanna Kanagal which was also remade in Telugu as Mana Voori Pandavulu (1978). The film was distributed by noted distributor R. N. Mandre. . The movie was an adaptation of the Mahabharata, fit to a rural scenario with some hints to the various clashes between the Pandavas and the Kauravas and to the characters in the epic.

Cast

Sanjeev Kumar as Krishna

Shabana Azmi as Sundariya

Mittun Chakraborthy as Bhima

Deepti Naval as Lajiya

Nasiruddin Shah as Suraj

Raj Babbar as Arjun

Gulshan Grover as Mahavir

Amrish Puri as Vir Pratap Singh

Aruna Irani as Nishi

A. K. Hangal as Pandit

Geeta Siddharth as Vir Pratap's Sister

Uday Chandra as Swaroop

Roopesh Kumar as Vijay

Kanhaiyalal as Lala Nainsukh Prasad Srivastav

Kalpana Iyer as Cameo, in song "Aiye Meherban"

Leena Das as Cameo, in song "Aiye Meherban"

Phiroza Cooper as Cameo, in song "Aiye Meherban"

Sujata Bakshi as Cameo, in song "Aiye Meherban"

C. S. Dubey

Anil Kapoor

Dulari

Jugal Kishore

Sunitha

Sunder

Crew

Director – Bapu

Story – S. R. Puttanna Kanagal

Screenplay – Mullapudi Venkata Ramana

Dialogue – Rahi Masoom Reza, Vinay Shukla

Producer – Surinder Kapoor, Boney Kapoor

Production Company – S. K. Films Enterprises

Cinematographer – Sharad Kadwe

Editor – Kamlakar Karkhanis

Art Director – M. S. Shinde

Costume Designer – Mrs. Kamal Bakshi, Prem Suri

Action Director – Veeru Devgan

Choreographer – Kamal Kumar

Soundtrack – Polydor (now Universal Music India Limited)

Soundtrack

All lyrics written by Anand Bakshi; all music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, S. P. Balasubramaniam.