Running time 176 minutes Country India Language Hindi Box office ₹117.5 million (US$1.8 million) Damini – Lightning is a 1993 Indian film directed by starring in the title role alongside,,,, in pivotal role and as special appearance. The story is of how a woman fights against society for justice. 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 and was declared a 'hit' at the Indian box office. Damini – Lightning is mostly remembered for 's career best performance and it is also memorable for 's role as an advocate and gained him a as well as for Best Supporting Actor for 1993.

It strengthened his Bollywood he-man image. His dialogue in the film 'Tarikh pe tarikh' became iconic and a pop-culture reference.

Damini – Lightning is a 1993 Indian crime thriller film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi starring Meenakshi Sheshadri in the title role alongside Sunny Deol, Rishi Kapoor. It strengthened his Bollywood he-man image. She is best known for playing the lead title role in Marathi TV serial Damini that aired on DD Sahyadri.

The film was a milestone in the careers of Meenakshi Sheshadri, Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri who gave some great hits like and together. Acted in a special appearance in the stage show dance song. Damini – Lightning was remade into Oriya as Nari Nuhne Tu Narayani starring Sidhanta Mohapatra and Rachana Banarjee.

It was remade into Tamil as starring Revathi as the title character. Declared the film a Hit. This film was remade in Bangladesh as Sottyer Bijoy starring directed by FI Manik. The rights of the movie are now owned by 's. Contents • • • • • • • • Synopsis [ ] Shekhar Gupta (), a rich businessman, falls in love at first sight with Damini (). Free Download Movie Pirates Stagnettis Revenge. 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, raping the maid-servant Urmi (Prajakta) 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. Plymouth Massachusetts Starr Program Lowell more. 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 (), 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 victimised girl.

Cast [ ] • as Damini Gupta • as Shekhar Gupta • as Govind • as Barrister Indrajit Chaddha • as Chandrakant (Damini's father) • as Tolu Bajaj • as Mr. Gupta • as Mrs. Gupta • as the Police Commissioner • Ashwin Kaushal as Shekhar's Brother • as Inspector Kadam • as Shekhar's friend • Suhas Bhalekar in a Guest Appearance as Urmi's Grandfather • Prajakta as Urmi • Sulabha Arya as Mami 's wife • as Shekhar's uncle • as Dancer in a song with Meenakshi Reviews [ ] Film 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.' 'Damini without doubt has to be one of the top drama's produced in 90's Bollywood, great direction, great cast and a great story.