For the 2002 film see Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani

Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani is a Hindi supernatural horror film directed and produced by Rajkumar Kohli, featuring Sunny Deol, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Manisha Koirala, Sonu Nigam, Aftab Shivdasani, Arshad Warsi. The storyline was a mixture of the two classic films, Nagin and Jaani Dushman...

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Jaani Dushman is a 1979

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 Bollywood popular horror film

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 with a large starcast including Sunil Dutt

Sunil Dutt

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, Rekha, Shatrughan Sinha

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, Vinod Mehra

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, Sanjeev Kumar

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, Neetu Singh

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, Jeetendra

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, Reena Roy

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, Aruna Irani

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, Madan Puri

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, Amrish Puri

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, Shakti Kapoor

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 and Premnath

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. It was directed by Rajkumar Kohli

Rajkumar Kohli

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. The film became a "superhit" at the box office.http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=185&catName=MTk3OQ

Synopsis
Jwala Prasad is to marry the girl of his dreams. On the day of the marriage, she is dressed all in red, as is the tradition in India. Just before the wedding she slips off to meet her real lover. When Jwala finds out, he is so enraged that he turns into a monster and kills both the to-be bride and her male friend. The saga does not end here, and this monster continues to terrorize the region, first abducting brides dressed in red just before the wedding procession stops at a Mandir (temple). When a to-be groom finally confronts and kills the monster, it leaves the body of Jwala Prasad and possesses the body of its killer. And the terror continues. Years late another male has now killed this creature, and the monster has re-possessed its body, and it is again on the rampage. The police and men of this region do confront this creature, but find out it is invincible, bullets cannot harm it, nor can physical strength of fully grown men overpower it. The suspense mounts as one by one the brides are killed and no one seems to have a clue, and everybody seems to be suspect, including the village Poojari, the Thakur, his son, and several other people. Even if they do manage to kill this creature, it will simply re-possess the body of another male, and continue on its gruesome task.