Market) is a 1982 Indian drama film directed by Sagar Sarhadi and starring Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil and Supriya Pathak.

He talks of an argument at his house with his father who had asked him to marry the daughter of an affluent cement factory owner.

He further assures the crestfallen Najma that one Shakir Khan, a middle-aged man working in the gulf area, who would soon be coming to their place, would help him with the money to set up some business.

Salim tells her that she is living a life of lies as Akhtar only visits her to spend the night and has no intention of marrying her.

Shakir Khan asks Najma to throw a kind of party in the evening where he separately tells Akhtar of his wish to marry a woman as he misses the comfort of home and family.

A flashback shows Shakir Khan having his own wife and children; however, it is apparent that he was abusive and so not welcome in his house.

Back in Hyderabad, Shabnam's mother has to let go of a good match for her eldest daughter as she cannot afford to fulfill the demands of the groom's side.

She ends up at a place where the poor are literally showcasing their daughters, hoping to get their young girls, some of whom have barely reached puberty, married in order to receive some amount of money in return.

However, Akhtar persuades her to set up the wedding as even if she refuses to, the poor parents will be more than happy to get one of their daughters married to such a rich man.

With the wedding being set up, Salim is horrified at the whole thing and in a drunken state expresses his anger at how the girls are being sold off to the rich because of poverty.

Salim tells her that marriage is but a socially acceptable way of selling and buying humans and that she too has been a victim of a similar market.

At that point, Sarju comes over to Najma and tells her that she had set up the love of his life with Shakir Khan.

Sarju meets Shabnam for the last time with the help of Nasreen and the two feel sorrowful at the turn of events.

She rejects Akhtar, who was quite elated as now it meant that Shakir Khan would surely help him set up a good life.

She faces Salim and relates the news of Shabnam's death at the end of which she owns up to being a part of this unfairness, this crime.