Hum Paanch (film)

Hum Paanch (transl. Us Five) is a 1980

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 Puttanna Kanagal which was also remade by Bapu earlier in Telugu as Mana Voori Pandavulu (1978).^[1] The film was distributed by noted distributor R. N. Mandre.^[2] 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.^[3]

Cast

• Sanjeev Kumar as Krishna
• Shabana Azmi as Sundariya
• Naseeruddin Shah as Suraj
• Mithun Chakraborty as Bhima
• Deepti Naval as Lajiya
• Raj Babbar as Arjun
• Gulshan Grover as Mahavir
• Uday Chandra as Swaroop
• Amrish Puri as Vir Pratap Singh
• Aruna Irani as Nishi
• Anil Kapoor as Aadesh
• A. K. Hangal as Pandit
• Geeta Siddharth
  as Vir Pratap's Sister
• Roopesh Kumar as Vijay
• Kanhaiyalal as Lala Nainsukh Prasad Srivastav
• Sunder
• C.S. Dubey
• Kalpana Iyer in song "Aiye Meherban"
• Leena Das in song "Aiye Meherban"
• Phiroza Cooper in song "Aiye Meherban"
• Sujata Bakshi in song "Aiye Meherban"

Soundtrack