Jaadugar

Jaadugar
Directed by	Prakash Mehra
Produced by	Prakash Mehra
Starring	Amitabh Bachchan Amrita Singh Jaya Prada Amrish Puri Aditya Pancholi Ram Sethi
Music by	Kalyanji-Anandji
Distributed by	Eros Entertainment Prakash Mehra Productions
Release date(s)	25 August 1989
Running time	173 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Jaadugar (English: Magician) is a 1989 Hindi film directed by Prakash Mehra and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Aditya Pancholi, Amrita Singh, Amrish Puri and Pran. Prakash Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan collaborated for seventh time for this movie (Previous movies being Khoon Pasina, Hera Pheri, Muqaddar ka Sikander, Laawaris, Namak Halal and Sharaabi). This was last collaboration between Prakash Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan.

Plot

American-returned Shankar Narayan is baffled to witness his former businessman and jailbird dad posing as a soothsayer by the name of Mahaprabhu Janak Sagar Jagat Narayan in a small town called Dharampur. He comes to know that his dad has learned a few magician's tricks from a fellow-inmate, and is able to fool the entire township with his "divine" powers. Shankar enlists the assistance of noted magician Goga, and brings him to Dharampur. Goga challenges the Mahaprabhu; is able to dethrone him; oust him from his temple, and takes over. His task over, Shankar asks Goga to leave, but power-hungry Goga, who now calls himself Gogeshwar, refuses to let go of his new-found position.

But actually Goga is not power-hungry as he seems to be. Mahaprabhu however refuses to give up & uses all deceitful methods to expose the fact that Goga is just a mortal & its him who actually is divine. He tries to poison the 'Prasad' that Goga gives to his 'followers' but they all escape. In the end, Goga completely exposes 'Mahaprabhu' in fornt of the whole public along with the fact that he himself is a common man who posed as a 'Divine' man just to match & teach 'Mahaprabhu'. He then returns back to his best- Being the people's magician...

This was the final film of Prakash Mehra with Amitabh Bachchan which though didn't do well at the box-office, but was praised for its unique story & great performance by its total cast. The film is also best remembered for its many confrontation scenes between Amitabh Bachchan & Amrish Puri.

This movie was based on the Sathya Sai Baba organisation.

Cast

• Amrish Puri ... Mahaprabhu Jagatsagar Chintamani
• Amitabh Bachchan ... Goga
• Jayapradha ... Meena
• Raza Murad ... Rajbharti
• Aditya Pancholi ... Shankar Narayan
• Amrita Singh ... Mona
• Pran ... Gajender
• Harbans Darshan M. Arora ... Police Inspector (as Harbans Darshan)
• Vikas Anand ... Kanchan
• Bharat Bhushan ... Gyaneshwar
• Ram Sethi ... Pyarelal
• Bob Christo ... Bob
• Leena Das ... Florie
• C.S. Dubey ... Pujari
• K.S. Ramesh ... Himself (Magician)
• Gorilla ... Bajrangi
• Satyendra Kapoor ... Police Commissioner
• Johnny Lever ... Nilkant
• Ram Mohan ... M.L.A.
• Mukri ... Nathulal
• Babbanlal Yadav]... Gambler

Soundtrack

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Aaye Hain Duaen Dene"	Kumar Sanu, Jolly Mukherjee, Sadhana Sargam, Sapna Mukherjee
2	"Kya Samjhen Aap Ko"	Sapna Mukherjee
3	"Main Jaadugar"	Kumar Sanu, Jolly Mukherjee
4	"Naach Meri Radha"	Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik
5	"Padosan Apni Murgi"	Amitabh Bachchan

External links

• Jaadugar IMDB