Dekho jhhoothha hai hamse roothhaa hai
Posted on: October 22, 2026
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‘Dahshat’ (1981) was produced under the banner of Ramsay Films which was directed by Tulsi and Shyam Ramsay. The cast included Naveen Nischol, Sarika, Om Shivpuri, Nadira, Narendra Nath, Pinchoo Kapoor, Dev Kumar, Ramesh Dev, Gopi Krishna Jayshree T, Bharat Bhushan, Madan Puri, Agha, Chand Usmani, Birbal, Sujata Beg, Keshu Ramsay etc. Sudhir and Gajanan Jagirdar made their special appearances in the film. There are many uncredited actors in the film such as Rajendranath, Kajal Kiran, Roopesh Kumar, Sujit Kumar etc.
The film’s story appears to have partly inspired from ‘Dracula: Prince of Darkness’ (1966) and partly from R L Stevenston’s novella, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide’ (1866). But as usual, Ramsay brothers always set the horror stories of their films giving a local twist like setting the story in a remote Indian village, a ruined haveli with some local superstitions, a foggy graveyard etc. Additionally, the film was stuffed with some box office ingredients like three two songs in the film which have not much relevance with the film’s story.
Interestingly, another Hindi film, ‘Chehre Pe Chehra’ (1981) inspired from ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide’ was released just three months before the release of ‘Dahshat’ (1981). I have watched both the films. The basic difference in presentation of films is that ‘Chehre Pe Chehra’ is the straight forward presentation with more emphasis on psychological and behaviour aspects after transformation. ‘Dahshat’ has aggressively relied on the horror element through make-up effects, nocturnal landscapes giving a feel of isolation with thick mist and howling sound of birds and breeze. In the end, high budget, multi-starer ‘Chehre Pe Chera’ failed at the box office while ‘B’ grade horror film, ‘Dahshat’ was a box office hit.
The story of the film is as under:
Dr. Sameer (Naveen Nischol) has returned from Russia to India after spending seven years along with his assistant, Dr. Radheshyam (Rajendranath) who is a veterinary doctor. They take a horse carriage driver, Robert (Bharat Bhushan) to drop them to Chandan Nagar, his native place. Sameer comes to know from him that Chandan Nagar is gripped with fear as corpses go vanished from the graves. Locals believe that the dead bodies are coming out of the grave and walking away. Hence no one travels in the night in Chandan Nagar. Sameer does not believe in this superstition and he walks down to reache his house in the night. It is a pleasant surprise for his father Mahipatrai (Madan Puri) and his mother (Chand Usmani) that he dared to travel in the night to reach his house. Sameer also meets his neighbour, Major Sinha (Agha) and his daughter, Kiran (Sarika) who was his sweetheart during their childhood.
Next day, a police inspector (Ramesh Dev), telephones in Sameer’s house that one more corpse from the graveyard is missing. Sameer rushes to the graveyard where police inspector and Robert are already present. After some time, Dr. Vishal ( Om Shivpuri) joins and get introduced to Sameer when he does not react and walks away. Sameer finds him to be eccentric. In the evening, Sameer and Kiran takes a stroll on the horse carriage (Tonga) driven by Robert’s son. On the way, the Tonga gets struck in the mud forcing Sameer and Kiran to take a walk. The wheel of the Tonga is still struck in the mud by which time, it is the night. Suddenly, the Tonga driver sees an approaching figure with bat-like monster who kills Tonga driver.
Sameer goes through the files of the disappearing corpses and finds out that corpses mostly vanishes next day after the dead person is buried. Also, there are signs of using shovel from where corpses disappear. Sameer decide the spend night at the graveyard with the hope that the grave digger would come to exhume the corpse of the Tonga driver. A grave digger with a monster type figure comes and start digging at Tonga driver’s grave. Sameer challenges him after which he runs away towards the house of Dr, Vimal. By that time, villagers come along with Inspector Mulla and surround the grave digger who happens to be dumb. He is handed over to the police for further investigation.
Sameer goes to the residence of Dr. Vimal along with Kiran in the same night as he feels that there may be some connection of the grave digger with Dr. Vimal because he was running away from him towards the gate of Dr. Vimal’s residence. He finds inside the house a secret laboratory with caged animals and birds. Dr. Vimal does not like Sameer’s night time visit and orders Sameer to leave his house. However, the very next day, Dr. Vimal meets Sameer inviting him to visit his laboratory so that he can suggest some idea for the experiment he does.
Sameer visits Dr Vimal’s laboratory and finds that Dr. Vishal is a mad scientist experimenting on animal hormones. He has been sending his mute servant to rob graves for human tissue. Vishal’s obsession is to isolate specific animal positive attributes such as night vision of bats, sensory perception of a dog etc and inject them into humans to create a superhuman. Sameer strongly warns Vishal against tampering with the laws of nature. But Dr Vimal is certain about the advantages of his invention. He even tries experimenting his serum with patient, Roberts which eventually kills him. Sameer suspects Dr. Vimal for his botched-up experimentation.
Because Dr Vimal is extremely busy in his experimentations, his personal equation with his wife. Mrs. Vishal (Nadira) is not good as she always object seeing him in the midst of the caged animals including serpents. Additionally, he has a mistress. As a result, there are intense arguments between him and his wife which has taken her to heavy drinking. With a bent-up hatred towards the husband, one day a drunk Mrs. Vishal goes into his laboratory and injects him with bat serum which is yet to be tested. The gradual effect of the bat serum is that during the day time, Dr. Vishal appears completely normal. But when night falls and there is no light, the bat serum takes effect physically transforming him into a monstrous, fanged, hair-covered beast.
Dr. Sameer confronts Dr. Vishal about the death of Roberts blaming him for his failed experimentations. He strongly advises him to refrain from playing against the nature. But Dr Vishal dismisses his arguments by saying that he is talking like a priest. Suddenly, an unidentified person appears trying to kill Dr. Sameer. In their fights, much of the laboratory is damaged creating a set back for Dr. Vishal in his experimentations. During this period, Dr. Sameer finds a couple of dead corpses with icepacks. Dr. Sameer now gets the answer as to why the corpses vanish from the graveyard. Dr. Sameer leaves to report the matter to the police.
Mrs. Vishal torments her husband by saying that his face looks like that of an animal. She admits that she has injected animal serum in him as a punishment to him for neglecting her. Fearing that he would become a full-pledged monster in a few days after the full effect of the serum, in a fits of rage, Dr. Vishal kills his wife by pushing her from the staircase. He telephones to Dr. Sameer who is not at home and Kiran picks up the telephone. After hearing Dr. Vishal voice, Kiran feels that he is not well. So, she goes to his house to be of help to him. She notices Dr. Vishal pulling a gunny bag from his house to take it outside. Actually, he has put the dead body of his wife in the gunny bag to dispose of outside his house.
In the meanwhile, after learning that Kiran has gone to Dr. Vishal’s house, Dr. Sameer rushes to the place. Dr. Vishal has kidnapped Kiran with a view to force him to make an antidote to the animal serum he has been injected before he gets completely transformed to a permanent monster. While Dr. Sameer rescues Kiran, Dr. Vishal is at large. Somehow the police team captures Dr. Vishal in a large net and he is hospitalised in the same hospital where Kiran is recuperating. Dr. Vimal escapes from his room and kidnaps Kiran to force Dr. Sameer to produce antidote but it is too late. Dr. Vishal has been completely transformed into a vampire looking monster killing inspector (Narendranath).
Dr. Sameer climbs to the terrace of the hospital where Dr. Vishal has been holding Kiran. Knowing fully well that beasts are afraid of fire, Dr. Sameer lit a long line of fire forcing Dr. Vishal to leave Kiran and escape from the fire. Dr. Sameer brings back Kiran safely on the ground. When Dr. Vishal now a full-grown vampire also walks down when the volley of bullets from police team shoot him dead. With the death of Dr. Vishal, the Chandan Nagar residents heave a sigh of relief.
‘Dahshat’ (1981) had three songs written by Amit Khanna which were set to music by Bappi Lahiri. The film makes a debut on the Blog with its 1st song, ‘dekho jhoothhaa hai, hamse roothha hai’, rendered by Asha Bhosle who is singing for Sarika. This song has no context in the film as it suddenly appears on the screen after Sameer’s father, Mahipatrai (Madan Puri), his neighbour. Major Sinha (Agha) and Kiran (Sarika), Dr. Sameer (Naveen Nischol) and Dr. Radheshyam (Rajendranath) have some tête-à-tête among themselves.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Dekho jhoothhaa hai hamse roothhaa hai (Dahshat)(1981) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Amit Khanna, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics :
hadekho jhoothhaa hai
hamse roothhaa hai
dil jiskaa matwaalaa hai
dekho jhoothhaa hai
hamse roothhaa hai
dil jiskaa matwaalaa hai
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai ae
dekho jhoothhaa hai
hamse roothhaa hai
dil jiskaa matwaalaa hai ae
hmm mm
mausam mein nashaa hai
pyaar mein mazaa hai
baithhe ho kyun gumsum
dhartee se gagan miley
phoolon se pawan miley
kyun na miley ham tum
mausam mein nashaa hai
pyaar mein mazaa hai
baithhe ho kyun gumsum
dhartee se gagan miley
phoolon se pawan miley
kyun na miley ham tum
haan kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai ae
dekho jhoothhaa hai
hamse roothhaa hai
dil jiska matwaalaa hai ae ae
hmm
dil kaa tohfaa laayee hoon
chupke chupke aayee hoon
nazren churaaye huye
chhod ke piyaa tu
kahaan chal diya tu
munh ko phulaaye huye
dil kaa tohfaa laayee hoon
chupke chupke aayee hoon
nazren churaaye huye
chhod ke piyaa tu
kahaan chal diyaa tu
munh ko phulaaye huye
arre kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai ae
dekho jhoothhaa hai
hamse roothhaa hai
dil jiskaa matwaalaa hai
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
kaise samjhaaoon
kaise main manaaoon
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai
meraa yaar
gussewaalaa hai
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