''Shaani'' or ''Shanee'' is a 1989 Pakistani

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film directed by

Saeed Rizvi Saeed Rizvi ( ur, سعيد رضا ) is a Pakistani film director. The movie industry and the government Rizvi would like the government to play a more optimistic role in the movie industry. He exclusively blames General Zia ul Haq for the ...

and starring

Babra Sharif Babra Sharif ( ur, ), (born 10 December 1954) is a Pakistani film actress, most known for her roles from the mid-1970s to the 1980s. She started her career in television commercials. She has worked with many famous names of her time, including S ...

, Sheri Malik, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Asif Khan, Saeed Rizvi and

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. The film is famous for its special effects which were first used in Pakistan.

Awards

The film won four

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in 1989. The film also does not have any songs which according to director Saeed Rizvi, increased his belief in special effects.

Plot

''Shanee'' begins with a glowing space ship that arrives in the middle of the forest near a village. A glowing figure appears and follows a terrified Babra Sharif to her house where he decides to assume the appearance of a young man he happens to view in a lovingly framed photograph. He is greeted with open arms by the villagers and especially by a blushing Babra and her family for unknown to the spaceman that he has assumed the appearance of Shanee the man who Babra was due to marry and who was supposedly brutally murdered by a villainous goon by the name of Shamsher Khan (Asif Khan). The fake Shanee lands in the thick of it upon his arrival because when he refuses to marry her as everyone expected, she blackmails him and forces him to change his mind. Anyway, all appears hunky dory and Shanee even turns his nose up at going home defying orders from his planet claiming that he has fallen for the ways of the humans! Then one fine day things turn nasty when evil goon Shamsher Khan, king of flesh trade discovers that the thorn he thought he had extracted once and for all has resurfaced to threaten him once again. While trying to fight for the man whose identity he took on, due to the feeling of obligation he falls in love with Babra Sharif. The alien who landed on Earth came in search of a planet where his people are able to survive but after falling in love, will he be able to return to his people and his land after the hate against humanity that they have seen?

Cast

* Ghulam Mohiuddin *

* Asif Khan *

* Sheri Malik

References

External links

* 1980s science fiction action films 1980s Urdu-language films 1989 films Shanee Nigar Award winners Films with live action and animation Films about revenge Shanee Science fiction action films Pakistani pregnancy films Urdu-language Pakistani films {{Pakistan-film-stub