Review of Sadak

Sadak (1991)
8/10
Another superb film of Mahesh Bhatt and Sanju
11 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Sanjay Dutt's career got resurrected with NAAM and then he and Mahesh Bhatt worked again in Kabzaa, this was their third film together which released in 1991. The film also had a superhit music of Nadeem Shravan with whom Bhatt collaborated with in other superhits too like Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ki Maanta Nahin which released in same year and then HARPK and other films.

The film starts off with Sanjay Dutt who drives taxi so that he can erase memories of his deceased sister(quite similar to Taxi Driver) then he meets Pooja Bhatt who is forsaken in a brothel which is run by an Eunuch played by Sadashiv Amrapurkar.Bhatt used the eununch track later in Tamanna though they it was shown in a positive light.

The film is superbly handled and keeps you engrossed, It is brilliantly handled by Mahesh Bhatt, Surprisingly the brothel part was used a lot those days in his own AWAARGI(1990) and Salman starrer BAAGHI too.

Music by Nadeem Shravan is superb, be it the romantic Tumhe Apna Banane Ki Kasam, Jab Jab Pyar Pe Pehra both sung by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal, Hum Tere Bin by Manhar Udhas,Anuradha is great too(perhaps once when Manhar sang for NS), Zamaane Ke Dekhe Hai by Abhijeet and Anuradha is another great song, other songs are okay

Sanjay Dutt despite his changing hairstyles throughout does a superb job, portraying the pain,agony and all pathos convincingly Pooja Bhatt after DADDY was a bit raw but does a good job Sadashiv Amrapurkar got the filmfare best villain award that year, he was simply brilliant, Bhatt regulars Avtar Gill, Mushtaque Khan, Deepak Tijori and others are good, Gavin Packard, Pankaj Dheer lend good support, Neelima Azim is good, while Soni Razdan is good in a cameo
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