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

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film directed by Saeed Rizvi and starring

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, Sheri Malik, Asif Khan, Saeed Rizvi and Mohammad Ali. The film is famous for its special effects which were first used in Pakistan.

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 Heena (Babra Sharif) to her house where he decides to assume the appearance of a young man (Sheri Malik) he happens to view in a lovingly framed photograph. He is greeted with open arms by the villagers, especially by a blushing Heena and her family. Unknown to the spaceman, he has assumed the appearance of Shanee, the man who Heena 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 Heena. 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

as Heena * Sheri Malik as Shaani * Mohammad Ali * Asif Khan * Saeed Rizvi *

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* Tamanna *

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* Munaza Sheikh * Baby Tina

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.

References

External links

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