Connection
Saathi is a film of genre Drama directed by Mahesh Bhatt with Aditya Pancholi
Saathi (1991)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listSaathi is a 1991 Bollywood film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and was written by Robin Bhatt. It starred Aditya Pancholi, Mohsin Khan, Anupam Kher and Paresh Rawal. This is one of the films for which Pancholi is best known as well as being the cricketer Mohsin Khan's only hit.
Bhatt was unhappy with the behaviour of Pancholi during the filming of this film and later refused to work with him on any film.
Synopsis
As children, Suraj (Aditya Pancholi) and Amar (Mohsin Khan) have watched their father being brutally beaten by a police inspector. Both grow up and become small time criminals. This leads them to the big gangster Pasha (Paresh Rawal). They part ways because Amar hates gangland activities, especially drugs. Suraj, on the other hand, wants wealth and wants to become rich. Suraj kills Pasha and becomes a big time gang leader. Amar is terrified that Suraj is lost in the world of crime and has forgotten humanity. In the climax of the movie, Sultan Anupam Kher phones Suraj and asks him to kill Amar to which he refuses. Later that day Suraj is chased by the police (Inspector Kotwal had ordered Inspector Khan to do so) and is injured while his bodyguard is killed. Suraj reaches the place where Amar and Suraj used to go and Amar who felt the voice of his friend calling him rushed to the place. Inspector Kotwal reaches there and Amar tells him that Suraj wishes to surrender. Inspector Kotwal reveals that he is actually Sultan, the real gang leader and attempts to kill Suraj. Amar saves Suraj and thinking that he had killed Sultan he returns to Suraj, just then Sultan arrives at the scene and attempts to stab Amar from behind, Suraj seeing him coming towards Amar pushes Amar and is stabbed by Sultan who is finally killed by Amar.Actors
Aditya Pancholi
(Suraj)
Anupam Kher
(Inspector Kotwal / Sultan)
Paresh Rawal
(Pasha Bhai)
Varsha Usgaonkar
(Nisha)
Soni Razdan
(Tina)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Saathi
There are 465 films with the same actors, 40 films with the same director, 75992 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1289 with exactly the same 3 genres than Saathi), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Saathi, you will probably like those similar films :
Gumrah (1993)
, 2h30Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Rahul Roy, Soni Razdan, Reema Lagoo
Rating61%
Roshni (Sridevi) is the only child of Sharda Chhadha (Reema Lagoo). Her father, Prakash Chhadha (Anupam Kher), left before she was born and she has no knowledge of where he went. Roshni is introduced to Rahul Malhotra (Rahul Roy) and they share a mutual attraction. When he learns that she is an aspiring singer, he assists in her career so she becomes popular. She has a devoted fan named Jaggannath alias Jaggu (Sanjay Dutt), who is a petty thief. He is in love with her but she rejects him. During a trip she and Rahul had taken to Hong Kong, she is arrested for trafficking cocaine and Rahul disappears. Jaggu brings an attorney, but she is quickly found guilty and sentenced to death. Jaggu visits the prison and runs afoul of two guards, themselves lovers, who beat him in front of Roshni. The attorney works to help them escape. A fight ensues between Roshni and the female guard in which the latter is killed. The warden intervenes and is killed by Jaggu. They escape and return to India. At the airport Prakash is questioned by the police and Roshni learns that he is her father, and that he had fled the country years earlier when he has been wrongfully accused of treason. Later at Rahul's house, Rahul admits that he had been dealing with drugs that resulted in Roshni's arrest. She slaps him for deceiving her and ends their relationship. With Prakash's blessings, Roshni and Jaggu get married.
Sir (1993)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Pooja Bhatt, Atul Agnihotri, Paresh Rawal, Soni Razdan, Sushmita Mukherjee
Rating60%
Mumbai-based college teacher Amar Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) lives with his wife, Shobha (Soni Razdan), and 6 year old son, Kunal. When a war breaks out between ganglords Veljibhai (Paresh Rawal) and Chhapan Tikli (Gulshan Grover) alias Jimmy, a number of innocent bystanders fall victim, one of whom is Kunal. This devastates the Verma family. Shobha walks out on Amar, who then devotes his life to his students. Many years later, when he finds out that a student, Pooja (Pooja Bhatt), has a problem of stammering, he decides to help her. He finds out that she is the only child of gangster Veljibhai. Amar meets with Veljibhai, discusses the gang-war scenario, then meets with Chhapan Tikli and does the same. Amar gets the gangsters to agree on a truce so that he can take Pooja and the rest of the students on a field trip to Bangalore. Amar will soon find out that neither Veljibhai nor Chhapan Tikli has any intention of keeping any truce. As the two dons engage in a fight to the finish, it seems that Amar may well have jeopardized his own life as well as the lives of Pooja and the other students. An additional complication arises with Pooja falling in love with her classmate Karan (Atul Agnihotri) and wishing to marry him against the wishes of her father.
Daddy (1989)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Anupam Kher, Pooja Bhatt, Manohar Singh, Jugal Hansraj, Soni Razdan, Pramod Moutho
Rating72%
This movie begins with an image of star, Alex Ramos. Pooja has been brought up by her grandparents, and has no recollection of her mom and dad. She is told by her grandpa, Kantaprasad, that her dad had died. Years later, Pooja has now grown up. She starts getting mysterious phone calls from a male who merely says "I love you", and hangs-up. When her grandpa has these phone calls traced, the caller is Anand, Pooja's dad. Kantaprasad has him beaten up, and warns him against contacting Pooja again. When Pooja is being molested by a male in her apartment building, Anand comes to her rescue, and it is then Pooja comes to know that this shabby, alcoholic man is her dad. Slowly as the story progresses, more facts about the reason of his alcoholism come to light, and he is able to overcome them eventually with the help of Pooja's love and her support.
Awaargi (1990)
, 2h29Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama
Actors Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Seshadri, Govinda, Anupam Kher, Paresh Rawal, Avtar Gill
Rating60%
Saaransh (1984)
, 2h17Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Anupam Kher, Rohini Hattangadi, Alok Nath, Soni Razdan, Nilu Phule, Akash Chandra Khurana
Rating80%
Saaransh is a story of an old Maharashtrian couple living in Shivaji Park, Mumbai, coming to terms with the death of their only son who is killed in a mugging incident in New York. Devastated to learn that their child has been killed, former headmaster B.V. Pradhan and his wife, Parvati, grieve.
Kabzaa (1988)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Amrita Singh, Raj Babbar, Paresh Rawal, Alok Nath, Dimple Kapadia
Rating60%
In the opening scene, Ravi Verma (Sanjay Dutt) is shown badly wounded with bullets. He crawls to a phone booth and calls up for an ambulance to save his life.
Tadipaar (1993)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt, Juhi Chawla, Anupam Kher, Gulshan Grover, Sadashiv Amarapurkar
Rating49%
Tadipaar is the story of Shankar, sentenced to live outside the limits of the city, due to a Police case. One day he happens to rescue a woman in distress from some hoodlums and finds out that her name is Namkeen, who resembles a multi-millionaire Mohinidevi, who has gone missing. Shankar asks Namkeen to impersonate Mohinidevi to embezzle her wealth. Namkeen agrees to do so, but the question remains where is Mohinidevi, and what will happen to Namkeen when she is found?
Angaaray (1998)
, 2h21Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akshay Kumar, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Pooja Bhatt, Sonali Bendre, Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover
Rating53%
Bangalore-based police inspector Amar (Akshay Kumar) is approached by Mumbai's police commissioner, Vinod Talwar (Naresh Suri), and is assigned the task to go undercover and locate and kill the killer(s) of a businessman, Khanna. Amar soon finds out that the culprit is his childhood friend, Raja Lokhande (Nagarjuna). Amar's other childhood friends, Jaggu Lokhande (Paresh Rawal) and Surya (Irfan Kamal) are also working for Lala Roshan Lal (Gulshan Grover), a major ganglord. He joins their gang as well using their friendship.
Chaahat (1996)
, 2h26Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Pooja Bhatt, Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Mushtaq Khan, Ramya Krishnan
Rating55%
Roop Rathore (Shahrukh Khan) is a singer in Bombay just like his father (Anupam Kher), who is now sick and needs immediate medical care. One day, while he is singing at Ajay Narang's (Naseeruddin Shah) hotel, Ajay's sister Reshma (Ramya Krishnan) falls in love with Roop. Reshma is a spoiled girl and Ajay looks through all of her wishes. Unfortunately, Roop is in love with a doctor named Pooja (Pooja Bhatt). Meanwhile, Reshma is obsessed with Roop, and asks her brother to call him again to sing in their hotel. But when she sees that all the girls are flattered over Roop, she gets very angry, and asks him to sing only for her now onwards. But Roop would rather work for rival Patel (Shri Vallabh Vyas) than take this offer. Ajay's obsession with keeping his sister happy at all costs comes into play and Patel is brutally beaten by him until he agrees to throw Roop out of his hotel. Desperately in need of money for his father's operation, Roop has no option but to agree to Reshma. Roop breaks up with Pooja.
The Gentleman (1994)
Directed by S. Shankar, Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Juhi Chawla, Paresh Rawal, Laxmikant Berde, Ajay Rathnam, Roja, Heera
Rating52%