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Released
2005 · FILM

Paheli

A devoted wife must choose between her long‑absent husband and a beguiling spirit who has taken his place, as the line between love and illusion threatens to shatter her world.

Directed by
Amol Palekar
Written by
Vijayadan Detha, Sandhya Gokhale
Runtime
141 min
Language
HI
ComedyDramaFantasy
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Kishanlal marries the beautiful Lachchi, but the day after the wedding, he leaves on a business trip that is expected to last five years. When Kishanlal unexpectedly returns only a few days later, Lachchi is overjoyed. However, this returnee is not the real Kishanlal, but a spirit who has taken his form after seeing Lachchi and falling in love with her. Four years later, the real Kishanlal finally returns, and the townspeople are faced with the challenge of determining which of the two men is the true husband.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Amitabh ShuklaShot by Ravi K ChandranScored by M M KeeravaniDesigned by Muneesh Sappel

Box Office

2005 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11.0M

Budget$4.9M
Worldwide gross$11.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $754K

Peak 68 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Schöne und der Geistde

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