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Sadak is a film of genre Thriller directed by Mahesh Bhatt with Sanjay Dutt
Sadak (1991)
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Add to a movie listDirected by Mahesh Bhatt
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Rating63%
Sadak is a 1991 Hindi language romantic thriller directed by Mahesh Bhatt.The film borrows several elements from Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic Taxi Driver.. It stars Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt. The film is the second highest grossing Hindi movie of the year 1991 and the seventh highest grossing hindi film of the 90s decade with a groundbreaking musical score.
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The film was made famous by the excellent portrayal of the eunuch, Maharani (Sadashiv Amrapurkar), an evil madam running a brothel that employs many girls like Pooja (Pooja Bhatt) and Chanda (Neelima Azeem). Ravi (Sanjay Dutt), a taxi driver, meets Pooja before she is bought by Maharani, and his friend Gotya (Deepak Tijori) is in love with Chanda. Ravi witnessed his sister Roopa (Soni Razdan) plunge to her death after being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. She had eloped with her lover who sold her off at a brothel and forced her to become a prostitute. This violent incident has left Ravi traumatised and scarred for life, as he has become an insomniac who keeps having disturbing visions of his sister's death and is restless and violent on occasions.On one of his taxi plying days, he meets Inspector Irani (Pankaj Dheer), who Ravi recognises from an article that was published about the cop when he had won a medal. Ravi drops him off to his destination, refuses to take any money from him and the cop tells him to come to him if he ever needs help of any kind.Actors
Sanjay Dutt
(Ravi)
Pooja Bhatt
(Pooja)
Deepak Tijori
(Gotya)
Sadashiv Amarapurkar
(Maharani)
Neelima Azeem
(Chanda)
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