The name 'Chann Pardesi' as documented in the supplied sources originates as the title of a Punjabi-language feature film released in 1981, directed by Chitrarth Singh and starring Raj Babbar, Rama Vij, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Om Puri. The provided materials do not give any mythological or folkloric origin story linking the name to a spirit or ghost.
No physical description of any supernatural entity called 'Chann Pardesi' appears in the supplied sources. The only appearance-related information records the film's principal cast and their character names (for example Rama Vij as Kammo, Raj Babbar as Laali, Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Harnek/Nek, Amrish Puri as Jagirdar Joginder Singh, Om Puri as Tulsi).
The sourced materials describe human characters' actions and plot events in the film (including murder, sexual violence, imprisonment and familial conflict) but do not attribute any supernatural abilities, behaviors, or spirit–human interactions to an entity named 'Chann Pardesi'.
Adi Vinayaka
Adi Vinayaka (Ādi Vināyaka; also called Nara Mukha Vinayaka) is a named iconographic and devotional form of the Hindu god Ganesha portraying the deity with a human head, described in sources as the form before the episode of decapitation by Shiva. It is rarely worshipped and appears in a small number of South Indian shrines and in devotional/musical repertoires.
Agastya
Agastya (also Agathiyar/Agasti) is a revered Vedic and later-period Indian rishi (sage) figure credited in textual traditions as an inspired seer, ascetic, teacher, culture-founder, and attributed author of Vedic, Puranic and Tamil works; in South Indian tradition he is associated with origins of Tamil grammar and Siddha medicine and is identified astronomically with the star Canopus.
Agiya Baital
The fire-form of the Vetala — a cremation ground spirit of UP and Bihar that manifests as a wandering flame rather than a corpse-inhabitor, leading night travellers off roads and into marshland or flames with a dancing fire that seems always just ahead.
Agniveśa
Agniveśa is a legendary rṣi (sage) in the Ayurvedic textual tradition, traditionally credited as the pupil of Punarvasu Atreya and as the attributed author of the lost Agniveśa Saṃhitā / Agniveśatantra. Later Ayurvedic compilers, notably Charaka, are described in the sources as having compiled, edited, and modified material attributed to Agniveśa into texts such as the Charaka Saṃhitā.
Ahiravan (Mahiravan)
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Aiyanar
Aiyanar (Aiyaṉār, ஐயனார்) is a Tamil rural tutelary deity venerated chiefly in village contexts of Tamil Nadu and among Tamil communities in Sri Lanka. Portrayed as a martial guardian often mounted on a horse or elephant and accompanied by attendant spirits, he functions primarily to protect village boundaries, people, and livestock and has later been syncretized with the Sanskritic Sastha tradition.
Aiyyanar
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Akṣayakumāra
Akṣayakumāra appears in the Ramayana as the youngest son of Rāvaṇa and a warrior sent to oppose Hanuman in the Ashoka Vatika episode; described as about sixteen, he fights bravely from a chariot and is killed by Hanuman.
Alakh Niranjan
A doctrinal and devotional formula in the Nath-yogi tradition denoting the unseen, unblemished ultimate reality (Nirguna Brahman/Atman). Used as a salutational invocation, theological name, and signifier of realised Self rather than a personified supernatural being.
Alakshmi
Alakshmi is an inauspicious female supernatural figure in Hindu tradition, presented as the negation or shadow-counterpart of the prosperity-goddess Lakshmi. She personifies poverty, grief, jealousy and social discord and is managed in domestic ritual and festival practice.
Alamelu
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Aleya
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- [2]Chann Pardesi - Wikidata Q5072208. Wikidata entry Q5072208 for 'Chann Pardesi' (1981 film).other
- [3]PROMO NO. 15 TO 17 - GOODBYE | SONG - CHANN PARDESI (CBFC archive). Central Board of Film Certification (archive) — promo certification record for 'CHANN PARDESI'.other
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- [5]PROMO NO. 14 - GOODBYE | SONG - CHANN PARDESI (CBFC archive). Central Board of Film Certification (archive) — promo certification record for 'CHANN PARDESI'.other