Sadak

Sadak सड़क
Promotional Poster
Directed by	Mahesh Bhatt
Written by	Robin Bhatt
Starring	Sanjay Dutt Pooja Bhatt Deepak Tijori Sadashiv Amrapurkar Avtar Gill Neelima Azeem
Music by	Nadeem-Shravan
Cinematography	Praveen Bhatt
Edited by	A Muthu
Release date	20 December 1991
Language	Hindi
Box office	₹107.5 million (US$1.6 million)

Sadak is a 1991 Hindi language romantic thriller film directed by Mahesh Bhatt. 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 the film is also well remembered for late actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar's potrayal as the evil brothel madam, Maharani widely considered amongst his career best performence's and one of hindi cinema's greatest villains.

Maharani (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) is 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.

Ravi meets Pooja again as she tries to flee the brothel of Maharani and tries to help her in vain. He procures his life's savings, a meagre sum of thirty thousand rupees from Salim Bhai (Avtar Gill), his taxi's owner and takes out Pooja for one night posing as her customer. He does so with the help of his friend Gotya and a pimp Gullu (Mushtaq Khan). Gotya, however, is held as collateral exchange under Maharani's orders in case Pooja is not safely returned. They roam around Bombay, spend some romantic time with each other during which Ravi tells Pooja that he loves her and would keep on coming back to the brothel for her every night (presumably - so that she is not sold to other customers).