Saathi (1991 film)

Saathi is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt. It stars Aditya Pancholi, Mohsin Khan and Varsha Usgaonkar in lead roles. Other actors who played negative roles include Anupam Kher and Paresh Rawal and Aditya Pancholi. This film was the most successful film of Aditya Pancholi's career.

Aditya Pancholi's character was loosely inspired by Al Pacino's character Tony Montana from Scarface.

Plot
At a young age, Suraj (Aditya Pancholi) and Amar (Mohsin Khan) saw their father brutally beaten by the police. Both grow up and become petty criminals. Through this they meet big gangster Pasha (Paresh Rawal). They go their separate ways as Amar hates the activities of Pasha's gang. Since he deals in drugs. Suraj, on the other hand, wants to become rich. Suraj kills Pasha and becomes the leader of a big gang. Amar is horrified that Suraj has been lost in the world of crime and humanity has been forgotten. In the film's finale, Sultan (Anupam Kher) calls Suraj and asks him to kill Amar. He refuses to do so.

Later that day, Suraj is chased by the police and gets injured. While his bodyguard gets murdered. Suraj reaches the place where Amar and Suraj used to go in their childhood. Amar, who heard his friend's voice, reaches the place. Inspector Kotwal reaches there and Amar tells him that Suraj wants to surrender. Inspector Kotwal reveals that he is actually the real Don Sultan and attempts to kill Suraj. Amar saves Suraj and returns to Suraj, thinking that he killed Sultan. Just then, Sultan, who was not dead, comes from behind and tries to stab Amar with a knife. Suraj comes forward to protect Amar and is killed by Sultan. Sultan is finally killed by Amar.

Cast

 * Aditya Pancholi as Suraj
 * Mohsin Khan as Amar
 * Varsha Usgaonkar as Nisha
 * Paresh Rawal as Pasha
 * Anupam Kher as Inspector Kotwal / Sultan
 * Mushtaq Khan as Shetty
 * Avtar Gill as Samant
 * Javed Khan Amrohi as Beer Bar Tender
 * Soni Razdan as Tina

Music
Music is composed by Nadeem–Shravan. The most popular song of the album "Hui Aankh Nam" was sung by Anuradha Paudwal. "Zindagi Ki Talash Mein" is a hit song even today. Other successful songs on the soundtrack are "Yaarana Yaar Ka" and "Aaj Hum Tum O Sanam".

Reception
According to the author Dina Khdair, this was the most successful film of Mohsin Khan.