Hum Paanch (film)

Hum Paanch ( Us Five) is a 1980 Hindi language action film directed by Bapu and produced by Boney Kapoor. The film features an all-star cast including Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborty, Nasiruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover (in his film debut) and Amrish Puri.

The movie was Boney Kapoor's maiden venture as a producer. A young Anil Kapoor, who is 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). The film was distributed by R. N. Mandre. 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.

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"