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"Shanee" is a 1989 Pakistan
i film starring Babra Sharif
, Sheri Malik and Ghulam Mohiuddin
and directed by Saeed Rizvi
. The film was known for its special effects which were first used in Pakistan.
The fake Shanee lands in the thick of it upon his arrival because when he refuses to marry her as everyone expected, she blackmails him and forces him to change his mind. Anyway all appears hunky dory and Shanee even turns his nose up at going home defying orders from his plant claiming that he has fallen for the ways of the humans! Then one fine day things turn nasty when evil goon Shamsher Khan, king of flesh trade discovers that the thorn he though he had extracted once and for all has resurfaced to threaten him once again.
While trying to fight for the man whose identity he took on, due to the feeling of obligation he falls in love with Babra Sharif. The alien who landed on Earth came in search of a planet where his people are able to survive but after falling in love will he be able to return to his people and his land after the hate against humanity that they have seen?
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i film starring Babra Sharif
Babra Sharif
Babra Sharif is an actress in the Pakistani film industry during the 1980s and late 1970s. She started her career in television commercials. She made her presence felt in a 'Jet' washing powder commercial and came to be known as 'Jet' powder girl. Fair-haired, attractive and intelligent, Babra...
, Sheri Malik and Ghulam Mohiuddin
Ghulam Mohiuddin
Ghulam Mohiuddin is a Pakistani actor of Urdu and Punjabi films. His first film Mera naam hai mohabbat released in 1975, was a blockbuster in Pakistan and China. The film was inspired by a Chinese folk story. The opposite actress was Babra Sharif, whose this movie was the first as heroine...
and directed by Saeed Rizvi
Saeed Rizvi
- About Him :He was born on March 8, 1944 and is the second eldest son of Rafique Rizvi and later married Shareen Rizvi. Known for making sci-fi films in Pakistan, he is also chairman of Pakistan's Film Producers Association. He made the first special effects film in 1989 for Pakistan...
. The film was known for its special effects which were first used in Pakistan.
Summary
Shanee begins with a glowing space ship that arrives in the middle of the forest near a village. A glowing figure appears and follows a terrified Babra Sharif to her house where he decides to assume the appearance of a young man he happens to view in a lovingly framed photograph. He is greeted with open arms by the villagers and especially by a blushing Babra and her family for unknown to the spaceman that he has assumed the appearance of Shanee the man who Babra was due to marry and who was supposedly brutally murdered by a villainous goon by the name of Shamsher Khan (Asif Khan).The fake Shanee lands in the thick of it upon his arrival because when he refuses to marry her as everyone expected, she blackmails him and forces him to change his mind. Anyway all appears hunky dory and Shanee even turns his nose up at going home defying orders from his plant claiming that he has fallen for the ways of the humans! Then one fine day things turn nasty when evil goon Shamsher Khan, king of flesh trade discovers that the thorn he though he had extracted once and for all has resurfaced to threaten him once again.
While trying to fight for the man whose identity he took on, due to the feeling of obligation he falls in love with Babra Sharif. The alien who landed on Earth came in search of a planet where his people are able to survive but after falling in love will he be able to return to his people and his land after the hate against humanity that they have seen?