How the power of one voice can make a difference, how honesty is always best policy (as the truth shall prevail), to do what’s right and always fight against injustice.Damini a socially relevant film about the power of one directed by Rajkumar Santoshi revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence.It is totally a one woman show and it rests entirely on Meenakshi Sheshadri’s powerful performance.
When Shekhar the son of wealthy Mr. Gupta goes to a small hill-station town, he is smitten by the beauty and dance of Damini, and falls head over heels in love with her.When he gets to meet her, he decides that he is going to marry her, and no one else.Shekhar brings his dad to meet Damini and her post-master dad, Chandrakant.Mr. Gupta is charmed by the simple beauty and outright honesty of Damini, and they finalize Shekhar’s and Damini’s marriage, which is celebrated with great pomp and ceremony.

During the holi festival, the whole household celebrate the colour and music with visitors.Damini’s brother-in-law and his three friends gang-rape Urmi.A helpless Damini witnesses the horror and she desperately seeks help from Shekhar.But they’re too late and Damini faints from the shock.Shekhar’s brother and co dump Urmi’s ravaged body in the gutter.Then the Gupta family conspire to cover-up this shameful incident.But Damini is unable to get this incident out of her mind, and finally decides to inform the police and is instantly shunned by the Gupta family, and asked to leave the house.

The police arrest Rakesh and three of his friends, and the matter is taken up in court, and Damini is asked to testify.Damini is portrayed by the Gupta family’s lawyer, Indrajit Chhadha, as a mentally unstable person, with everyone from the Gupta family to her very own dad testifying to that effect.Damini is confined in an 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 by the name of Govind, who has the rape case re-opened.Then the maid-servant dies in hospital, and the police write her death off as a suicide, but Govind is able to prove otherwise.As for the final test of Damini’s sanity, the only person who can restore her rightful place is Shekhar.But will Shekhar be able to stand up against his own family, and testify in favor of Damini and send his younger brother to prison?

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