Jai Kaali

Jai Kaali is a 1992 Bollywood, horror fantasy thriller film, produced by Satram Rohra on Bhagyalaxmi Chitra Mandir’s banner^[2] and directed by Nikhil Saini.^[3] Starring Jeetendra, Hema Malini in the lead roles and music composed by Usha Khanna.^[4][5]

Plot

Girnar a remote forest area of our country, where the tribal inhabitants (Adivasis) work as bonded labourers in the stone quarry owned by Bankelal Chaurasia (Saeed Jaffrey), who along with collector of the area Purushttoma Desai (Paresh Rawal), the forest officer Ranjeet (Ranjeet), Daljit Singh (Bharat Kapoor) and Mukkadam Sumba (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) have been exploiting and terrorizing the poor tribals. Shikaali (Hema Malini) a popular writer comes from the city to write a book on these tribals, who becomes a threat to the authority of the evil foursome, when she starts exposing the inhuman conditions the poor were going through. The ultimate attack comes when she discovers the body of Divya (Zarina Wahab) a local girl who was raped and killed by the gang of four. Facing the insecurity of their names and positions they names and positions they decide to eliminate Shikaali is beaten to near death. He invokes the Goddess “Kaali” who takes a human form in the body of the unknowing Shikaali. Towards the end, Bankelal, Purushottam, Daljit and Sumba are hacked to death by the goddess in the form of Shikaali. Good triumphs over evil. Shikaali is accused of Killing. Advocate Shiv Shankar (Jeetendra) who was in love with Shikaali also a friend comes to her rescue and ultimately proves her innocence. The court is forced to acquit Shikaali of all charges.

Cast

• Jeetendra as Adovocate Shiv Shankar
• Hema Malini as Shikaali
• Saeed Jaffrey as Bankelal Chaurasia
• Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Mukkadam Sumba
• Paresh Rawal as Purushottam Desi
• Ranjeet as Shikari Ranjeet
• Rajesh Vivek as Poojari Baba
• Vikas Anand
• Bharat Kapoor as Daljit Singh
• Subbiraj as Judge
• Zarina Wahab as Divya
• Aruna Irani

Soundtrack

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References