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Wikipedia article'Damini' is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed and co-written by Rajkumar Santoshi. It Meenakshi Seshadri in the titular role with Sunny Deol, Rishi Kapoor and Amrish Puri. Aamir Khan makes a special appearance. The story revolves around a woman who fights against the injustices in the society. The film is considered to be one of the best woman-centric films ever made in Bollywood. * * * * * Besides being critically acclaimed, the film became the sixth highest grossing of the year and was declared a "hit" at Box Office India.[http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=199&catName=MTk5Mw Box Office 1993] Box Office India.'Damini Lightning' is mostly remembered for Meenakshi Seshadri's career best performance that was highly acclaimed.* * * * It is considered a cult feminist film and is still regarded as an all-time classic female oriented film and important for portraying women empowerment in cinema * * * * The pathbreaking film was praised for breaking social taboos and handling the subject of rape with sensitivity; a rarity in Bollywood at the time. * * * * It is equally memorable for Sunny Deol's brilliant portrayal of an alcoholic lawyer and the role gained him a Filmfare as well as National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1993. It strengthened his Bollywood he-man image. His dialogues in the film "'Tarikh Pe Tarikh'" ("date after date") and "'Dhai Kilo ka Haath'" ('Two-and-a-half kilogram hand') became iconic and a pop-culture reference. * * The film was a milestone in the careers of Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri and Amrish Puri, who gave some great hits like 'Ghayal' (1990) and 'Ghatak: Lethal' (1996) together. * * * Aamir Khan acted in a special appearance in the stage show dance song. He also promotes his upcoming film 'Andaz Apna Apna' (1994) which was also directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. 'Damini Lightning' was remade into Oriya as 'Nari Nuhne Tu Narayani', starring Sidhanta Mohapatra and Rachana Banarjee, in Tamil as 'Priyanka', starring Revathi as the title character, in Telugu as 'Urmila', starring Suman and Malashri, and in Bangladesh as 'Sottyer Bijoy', starring Manna and Moushumi, directed by F.I. Manik. 'Box Office India' declared the film a super hit. The rights of the movie were owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, which were transferred to Sunny Deol who plans to remake the film with his son Karan Deol. 'Damini' is the recipient of a number of accolades. At the 40th National Film Awards, Deol won Best Supporting Actor. In addition to other awards, the film received seven nominations at the 39th Filmfare Awards including Best Film, Best Actress for Seshadri, and Best Villain for Puri. It won a 4 leading awards Best Director for Santoshi, Best Supporting Actor for Deol, Best Story for Sutanu Gupta, and Best Sound for Rakesh Ranjan. Plot Shekhar Gupta (Rishi Kapoor), a rich businessman, falls in love at first sight with Damini (Meenakshi Seshadri). They get married and Damini moves into his luxurious bungalow. On Holi day, she witnesses Shekhar's younger brother, Rakesh (Ashwin Kaushal), and his friends, gangraping the maid-servant Urmi (Prajakta) and rushes to tell Shekhar. Shekhar rushes over to prevent sexual assault but is too late. The Gupta family conspires to cover up this shameful incident. But Damini decides to inform the police. The matter is taken up in court and Damini is asked to testify. Damini is portrayed as a mentally unstable person and confined in a mental institution for two weeks by judicial order. Unable to bear the mental torture in the institution, she escapes and runs into a down-and-out alcoholic lawyer, Govind (Sunny Deol), who has the rape case re-opened. Urmi dies in hospital and the police write her death off as a suicide. But Govind is able to prove otherwise. It is up to Damini, Govind and Shekhar to provide justice to the victimized girl.
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*Rishi Kapoor as Shekhar Gupta
ReviewsFilm reviewer Pranay Bhagat wrote: "If there is one modern film which signifies the importance of truth it has to be 'Damini'. Though the movie is more remembered for the dialogues of Sunny Deol and his confrontational scenes with Amrish Puri, I feel the movie should also be appreciated for a tight bound script, the wonderfully directed courtroom scenes, good background music as well as a career best performance from Meenakshi."
Soundtrack The soundtrack of this movie was composed by the music duo Nadeem Shravan and the lyrics were penned by Sameer . The soundtrack was released in 1993 on Audio Cassette and Audio CD in RPG-HMV Music Made in India and EMI Made in England, Which consist 5 Songs. The full album is recorded by Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, and Sadhna Sargam
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