Hum Paanch (film)

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Hum Paanch
Directed by	Bapu
Produced by	Boney Kapoor
Starring	Sanjeev Kumar Shabana Azmi Mithun Chakraborty Naseeruddin Shah Raj Babbar Gulshan Grover Amrish Puri
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	180 mins
Country	India
Language	Hindi
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Hum Paanch (English: We Five) is a 1980 Bollywood film directed by Bapu and produced by Boney Kapoor. The film features a huge all-star cast including Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Gulshan Grover and Amrish Puri. A young Anil Kapoor who is producer Boney Kapoor's brother has a cameo appearance.

The movie was remade from a kannada movie, Paduvarahalli Pandavaru. Puttana Kanagal who was the director of the kannada original was the co-writer of the Hindi remake. The movie was an interesting adaptation of the Mahabharata, fit to a rural scenario with some obvious hints to the various clashes between the Pandavas and the Kauravas and to the characters in the epic.