Jal Mahal (जल महल) 1980

Published on November 9, 2012 in Cinema

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Director	Raghunath Jhalani
Writer	Shashi Bhushan, Charandas Shokh
Producer	R.K. Soral
Orginal music	R.D. Burman
Cinematography	Bipin Gajjar
Film Editing	Waman B. Bhosle, Gurudutt Shirali
Art Director	Ganesh Basak
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Assistant Cameramen	Pradip Chakraborty, Rocky Fonseca, Blaze Misquitta
Playback Singers	Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi

Character	Actor / Actress
Ravi	Jeetendra
Namita	Rekha
Shankar	Deven Verma
Rajesh Thakur	Rajesh Behl
Devender Pratap Singh	Pran
Din Dayal	Manmohan Krishna
Munshi Aashiq Hussain Dildar	Jagdeep
Shanti	Chand Usmani
Saroj	T. Jayshree
Rat poison seller	Sunder
	Rana
Anthony Gonsalves	Jankidas
	Brahm Bhardwaj
Horse-Carriage Driver	Manmauji
Haria	H.L. Pardesi
	Baldev Kalsi
	Brijesh
	Shakeel
	Viju Khote
	Padmini Kapila
	Arpana Choudhary
Defending Lawyer	Om Shivpuri
Kishanchan	Ranvir Raj

Raghunath Jhalani was known to make suspenseful thrillers (Anamika was by him?). Jal Mahal was inspired totally by Vertigo, and it was a good effort. The suspense is good, and the ending is truly a surprise. Of the actors, I thought Rekha and Deven Varma were very good. Pran and Jeetu do their parts as they always did...but the director should be given credit for making a tight little thriller. Sadly, the film didn't do well at the box office. R.D. Burman's music was, as always, good.