The film starred Sushant Ray (Shantaram's grandson), with Padmini Kolhapure,[2] and the rest of the cast included Yunus Parvez, Sudhir Pandey and Ranjana Deshmukh (niece of Hindi film actress Sandhya who was V. Shantaram's wife).

Ranjana's career came to a halt when she met with a car accident on the way to the shooting of this film in Bangalore.

[3][4] Culminating the end of a career that "spanned" nearly seventy years in Indian cinema, Jhanjhaar was Shantaram's last released film, and a commercial failure at the box-office.

Pushpa and Gayatri are the daughters of an ex-army man, Veer Bahadur, now retired to his village.

Gayatri, Pushpa and Santosh together with the help of the villagers manage to bring an end to Nagoji’s wicked ways.