Agni Sakshi (1996)

Directed by

Partho Ghosh

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 22m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman marries a wealthy man, but her new husband's obsessive and controlling behavior turns her life into a nightmare. She must find a way to escape his clutches and reclaim her freedom.

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What happens

Agni Sakshi (transl. With Fire As Witness) is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language thriller drama film directed by Partho Ghosh, written by Ranbir Pushp and Hriday Lani, starring Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar and Manisha Koirala. The music is by Nadeem-Shravan. Nana Patekar and Manisha Koirala were widely appreciated for their performances with Patekar winning the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997. The film released in quick succession with Yaraana, starring Madhuri Dixit and Daraar, starring Juhi Chawla. All the three were based on the Julia Roberts-starrer Sleeping with the Enemy; only Agni Sakshi proved to be successful while the other two remakes failed at the box office. After a few years, this film was remade loosely in Oriya as Mu Sapanara Soudagar, starring Sabyachi, Archita and Arindam. In 1996 a Bengali film Bhoy was also made based on the same plot. Agni Sakshi was rated the first among top five "super-hit" films of 1996 by the Indian Express. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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