Jaadugar (1989)

Jaadugar Movie Trailer 1989

Crew

Directed by     Prakash Mehra
Produced by     Prakash Mehra
Music by     Kalyanji-Anandji
Distributed by     Eros Entertainment
Prakash Mehra Productions

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


Story

Returned American 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; he is able to dethrone him, ousts 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.

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 & it's he who is actually 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 front 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 role - being the people's magician.

Did you know?

1. When the project was launched, the original star cast was Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jayapradha and 'Amrita Singh'.
2. Prakash Mehra initially wanted to release a sequel. However, he changed this mind after this movie was unsuccessful.
3. The movie was announced in 1987, but Amitabh Bachchan did not commit any dates for its shooting. During that period Amitabh attended a party in which Prakash Mehra was also present. Prakash Mehra blasted Amitabh in front of entire film industry for not giving preference to Jadugar. Prakash Mehra said Amitabh has forgotten how he was the one that gave Amitabh Bachchan a break in Zanjeer etc. Everybody thought that after this incident Mr Mehra can forget about Jadugar. But after the party Amitabh went home and picked up his phone.He dialed Praksh Mehra no and said, "who said I'm not doing your Jadugar? Just count me in on it."