Damini Lightning
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Director Rajkumar Santoshi Release date April 30, 1993 (India) Country India | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Duration Language Hindi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 30 April 1993 Writer Sutanu Gupta, Dilip Shukla Awards Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor Songs Jab Se Tumko Dekha Hai Sanam Cast Meenakshi Sheshadri (Damini Gupta), Sunny Deol (Govind), Rishi Kapoor (Shekhar Gupta), Tinnu Anand (Shekhar's Uncle), Vijayendra Ghatge (Inspector Kadam), Rohini Hattangadi (Mrs Sumitra Gupta) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A down-and-out lawyer (Sunny Deol) helps a woman (Meenakshi Sheshadri) after her brother-in-law rapes a maid.
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Damini – Lightning is a 1993 Hindi film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi starring Meenakshi Sheshadri in the title role alongside Sunny Deol, Rishi Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Tinu Anand, Paresh Rawal in pivotal role and Aamir Khan as special appearance. The story is of how a woman fights against society for justice. The film is considered to be the best woman centric film ever made in Bollywood along with Mother India.
Besides being critically acclaimed, the film became the sixth highest grossing of the year and was declared a hit at the Indian box office. Damini – Lightning is mostly remembered for Meenakshi Sheshadris career best performance, the role that became her identity and it is also memorable for Sunny Deols role as an advocate and gained him a Filmfare as well as National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1993. It strengthened his Bollywood he-man image. The film was a milestone in the careers of Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri who gave some great hits like Ghayal and Ghatak: Lethal together. Aamir Khan acted in a very special appearance in the stage show dance song. Damini – Lightning was remade into Oriya as Nari Nuhne Tu Narayani starring Sidharth and Rachana. It was remade into Tamil as Priyanka starring Revathi as the titular character. Box Office India declared the film Hit.
The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence. After her marriage in renowned wealthy family, Damini happens to see a cruel act done by her brother-in-law. She wants the victim to get justice, but the family including her husband oppose her, which leads her to leave the house. Soon she is helped by a drunkard, an ex-advocate, who helps her in all respect to reach to her aim and therefore justice
Synopsis
Shekhar Gupta (Rishi Kapoor), a rich businessman, falls in love at first sight with Damini (Meenakshi Sheshadri). They get married and Damini moves into his palatial bungalow. One day, she witnesses Shekhars younger brother, Rakesh, raping the maid-servant and rushes to tell Shekhar. Shekhar rushes over to prevent the sexual assault but is too late. The Gupta family conspire 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 a 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. The maid-servant 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 victimised girl.
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Soundtrack
The Soundtrack Of The Movie Is Composed By The Music Duo Nadeem Shravan.The Song Lyrics Planned By Sameer.
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References
Damini – Lightning WikipediaDamini – Lightning IMDb Damini – Lightning themoviedb.org