It stars Meenakshi Seshadri in the title role with Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol and Amrish Puri.

Above all Meenakshi Seshadri's towering performance fully justifies the central character of "Damini"[3] Besides being critically acclaimed, the film also became the sixth highest grossing of the year and was declared a "hit" at Box Office India.

[1] Damini - Lightning marked Meenakshi Seshadri's career best performance despite not rewarded as a best actor by Filmfare and National award jury.

[6] The movie is highly memorable for Sunny Deol's portrayal of an alcoholic lawyer and the role gained him a Filmfare as well as National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1993.

[7] The film was a milestone in the careers of Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri and Amrish Puri, who gave some great hits like Ghayal (1990) and Ghatak: Lethal (1996) together.

It won a 4 leading awards — Best Director for Santoshi, Best Supporting Actor for Deol, Best Story for Sutanu Gupta, and Best Sound for Rakesh Ranjan.

Her sister runs away from home with a drunkard and mimcry artist Birju Moghe to Mumbai, in a bid to relieve her father from the onus of arranging dowry for her wedding.

Later it is revealed that it is Tolu Bajaj, who has bribed the police department to escalate the matter in order to tarnish the image of the Guptas.

Damini escapes and runs into a down-and-out alcoholic lawyer, Govind (Sunny Deol), who saves her from the culprits chasing her.

Seeing situation going out hand, Chaddha fakes a chest pain and asks court to give another date of hearing.

Shekhar is spared for helping achieve justice and the court thanks Damini for her resilience and resolve, stating that she has set a historic example in the history of law and order.

Kapoor on being informed that Deol suggested Dimple Kapadia to portray the role, at once declared that he would leave the project if she was cast.

"[13] Vineeta Sinha in her review praises the film for its tight bound script, courtroom scenes, music and above all the career best performance of Meenakshi.

Despite receiving instant critical acclaim upon its release and having a successful run at the box-office, we as an audience have celebrated this film for all the wrong reasons.

deserved all the claps and whistles it received, and the theatrics of the courtroom drama, wherein two lawyers Govind (Sunny Deol) and Mr. Indrajit Chaddha (Amrish Puri) exchange angry words and stares indeed make for a great Bollywood entertainer.

Till date, Bollywood has not given us such a strong and beautifully written female character as Damini, who not only has a mind of her own, but also a conscience.

Long before films like Raazi and Pink were made in Bollywood, Rajkumar Santoshi's Damini gave us a HIT feminist movie with a female central character, who fights against all odds to bring justice to another woman.