Throwback Thursday: 'Hum Paanch' Cast Transformation in 17 Years! Dailybhaskar.com Last Modified - Feb 25, 2016, 12:47 PM IST Check out how Hum Paanch’s epic star cast has aged in these 17 years. Rakhi Vijan played the classic beauty without brains character Sweety in Hum Paanch. The actor has been a part of many successful shows since her time on Hum Paanch. These include shows like Heena, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, Madhubala and Shakti. In addition, she was also a contestant of Bigg Boss 2. Shoma Anand on watching herself & Hum Paanch cast back on TV. Shoma Anand felt that a lot of people who are at home are feeling depressed but can now forget everything and can have at 30 minutes of laughter with the Hum Paanch cast. Even the actor now sits. The show has all set of new actors including Jayshree Venkataramanan as Kajal Bhai, Sooraj Thapar as Anand Mathur which was originally played by Ashok Saraf while Vaishnavi McDonald will be playing the character of Seema Pandey who is now playing Beena. Besides these actors, we have Priya Tendulkar and Shoma Anand in the lead roles.
| Hum Paunch | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bapu |
| Produced by | Boney Kapoor Surinder Kapoor S. K. Films Enterprises |
| Screenplay by | Mullapudi Venkata Ramana |
| Story by | S. R. Puttanna Kanagal |
| Starring | Sanjeev Kumar Shabana Azmi Mithun Chakraborty Nasiruddin Shah Raj Babbar Gulshan Grover Amrish Puri |
| Music by | Laxmikant–Pyarelal S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |
| Cinematography | Sharad Kadwe |
| Edited by | Kamlakar Karkhanis |
Essel Studios, Mumbai Mehboob Studios, Mumbai | |
| Distributed by | Eros International Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd. |
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| 180 mins | |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Hum Paanch (English: We Five) is a 1980Hindi languageaction 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.
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 by Bapu earlier in Telugu as Mana Voori Pandavulu (1978). The film was distributed by noted distributor R. N. Mandre. .[1] 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.[2]
Cast[edit]
- Sanjeev Kumaras Krishna
- Shabana Azmias Sundariya
- Mithun Chakrabortyas Bhima
- Naseeruddin Shahas Suraj
- Raj Babbaras Arjun
- Deepti Navalas Lajiya
- Gulshan Groveras Mahavir
- Amrish Purias Vir Pratap Singh
- Aruna Iranias Nishi
- A. K. Hangalas Pandit
- Geeta Siddharthas Vir Pratap's Sister
- Uday Chandra as Swaroop
- Roopesh Kumaras Vijay
- Jugal Kishore
- Sunder
- Kanhaiyalalas Lala Nainsukh Prasad Srivastav
- Kalpana Iyeras 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'
Crew[edit]
- 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[edit]
All lyrics are written by Anand Bakshi; all music is composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal, S. P. Balasubramaniam.
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Hum Paanch Pandav' | Shailendra Singh, Amit Kumar, Anwar, Suresh Wadekar | 4:49 |
| 2. | 'Ka Jaanu Main' | Amit Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar | 5:15 |
| 3. | 'Kya Kahiye Bhagwan Se' | Mohammad Rafi | 2:31 |
| 4. | 'Aapno Se Munh Mod Ke' | Mohammad Rafi | 1:43 |
| 5. | 'Aati Hai Palki' | Mahendra Kapoor, Kishore Kumar | 6:21 |
| 6. | 'Aaiye Meharban' | Usha Uthup | 5:36 |
| 7. | 'Dheere Chal Zara' | Mohammad Rafi | 5:11 |
| 8. | 'Ye Soye Insaan' | Mohammad Rafi | 1:45 |
Box office[edit]
The film was a super hit and sixteenth highest-grossing movie of 1980.[3]
References[edit]
- ^'Hum Paanch (1980)'. IMDb.
- ^'Hum Paanch (1980)'. Flixster.
- ^https://m.imdb.com/list/ls000028835/
External links[edit]
- Hum Paanch on IMDb
Hum Paanch, one of the most popular serials of the nineties, still touches our hearts with its feminist portrayal of girls as they really are.
In the midst of the current saas bahu sagas where the ‘adarsh bahu’ is mostly shown as someone who is a sexist society’s dream come true, the empowering yet fun TV serials of yesteryear such as Hum Paanch makes us yearn for the days gone by.
So, when the cast recently decided to reunite after two decades to create a special episode, it surely warmed the cockles of our hearts. Hum Paanch was one of those serials that received a cult status with its content which everyone in the family found relatable and endearing.
Hum Paanch Cast Zee Tv
Zee TV, which aired the show, had recently completed 25 years and hence plans on airing a three-hour long special episode to mark the occasion, the reunion of the Hum Paanch cast was a part of this episode.
Powerful feminist themes in Hum Paanch
Besides giving us one of India’s most beloved and powerful actors, Vidya Balan, along with other talented actors, Hum Paanch’s stellar cast shot to celebrityhood status because of its humorous and feminist content. The story revolved around a middle class man, Anand Mathur who always got into trouble due to his five daughters, Meenakshi, Radhika, Sweety, Kajal, and Chhoti. While the three elder daughters were from Anand’s first wife, the last two were from his second wife, Bina.
Stepmothers can be friends
The serial showed Anand visiting Bina’s place along with his three daughters to ask for her hand in marriage. Though Bina and her stepdaughters had a few clashes in the beginning, they became the closest friends post Bina’s marriage to Anand. Instead of showing a cruel or evil stereotypical stepmother, the serial showed how stepmothers could be nice and loving and the daughters in turn could accept them as one of their own.
Women who aspired for more than just a domestic existence and a pretty appearance
Hum Paanch Serial Cast
Meenakshi, Anand’s eldest daughter, is a feminist whom many ‘90’s girls grew up idolizing. Radhika, the second daughter, is an intelligent and geeky girl, with a hearing impairment once again showing the inclusive nature of the serial.
In the melee of different kinds of characters, the third daughter, Sweety was a Bollywood crazy girl, while the fourth daughter, Kajal was the neighbourhood gunda, Kajal Bhai. The youngest daughter, Choti was a gossipy little girl.
Instead of the portrayal of the ideal Indian daughters, so prevalent in today’s Hindi serials, whose only aim seems to be to learn household work to satisfy their in-laws and husbands post marriage, this assortment of real life girls whom a lot of us could identify with, was one of the reasons why we all loved the serial so much.
It did not go on to show strong willed and opinionated women in a negative light and neither did it have any set body standards for its female cast thus promoting body positivity in an era when the term has not even attained so much of popularity.
Hum Paanch, was a serial which we think believed in treating women simply as human beings, just like men which happens to be the basic essence of feminism and that is the reason why we will always love it and think of it with fond remembrance.