Paheli

Paheli
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Amol Palekar
Produced by	Red Chillies Entertainment
Screenplay by	Sandhya Gokhale
Story by	Vijayadan Detha Sandhya Gokhale Amol Palekar
Starring	Shah Rukh Khan Juhi Chawla Rani Mukerji Anupam Kher Amitabh Bachchan Sunil Shetty Rajpal Yadav
Narrated by	Naseeruddin Shah
Music by	Songs: M.M. Keeravani Background Score: Aadesh Shrivastava
Cinematography	Ravi K. Chandran
Edited by	Amitabh Shukla
Distributed by	Red Chillies Entertainment
Release date	24 June 2005 (2005-06-24)
Running time	141 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹140 million (equivalent to ₹330 million or US$4.9 million in 2016)
Box office	₹320 million (equivalent to ₹760 million or US$11 million in 2016)

Paheli (Devanagari: पहेली, Riddle) is a Bollywood fantasy film, which released in India on 24 June 2005. It is a remake of the 1973 Hindi movie Duvidha. It was directed by Amol Palekar and produced by Juhi Chawla, Aziz Mirza, Sanjiv Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan, who also plays the male lead. Paheli is based on the short story written by Vijayadan Detha in Rajasthani language and tells the story of a wife (Rani Mukerji) who is left by her husband (Shah Rukh Khan) and visited by a ghost, disguised as her husband, who is in love with her and takes her husband's place. Sunil Shetty, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav and Amitabh Bachchan have supporting roles in the film. The story has been previously adapted into film, Duvidha (1973) by Mani Kaul.

The movie opened the ninth Zimbabwe International Film Festival at the Libertie Cinema Complex in Harare. It was also screened at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The working title of the movie was Ghost Ka Dost (translates to Friend of a Ghost). Paheli was India's official entry to the 2006 Oscars.

The movie is narrated by two puppets, voiced by Naseeruddin Shah and his real-life wife Ratna Pathak Shah.