Lajja (लज्जा) 2001

Published on April 20, 2013 in Cinema

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Banner	Santoshi Productions
Director	Rajkumar Santoshi
Writer	Rajkumar Santoshi, Ranjit Kapoor
Producer	Rajkumar Santoshi
Orginal music	Anu Malik
Cinematography	Madhu Ambat
Film Editing	V.N. Mayekar
Art Director	Nitish Roy
Camera Operator	Nath Gupta
Assistant Cameramen	Harinath
Playback Singers	Anuradha Sriram, Alka Yagnik, K.K , Anuradha Paudwal, Lata Mangeshkar, Richa Sharma, Shubha Mudgal

Character	Actor / Actress
Ramdulaari	Rekha
Raju	Anil Kapoor
Raghu	Jackie Shroff
Janki	Madhuri Dixit
Bulwa	Ajay Devgn
Vaidehi	Manisha Koirala
Maithili	Mahima Chaudhry
Manish	Samir Soni
Raghu's dad	Suresh Oberoi
Virender	Gulshan Grover
Purshotam	Tinnu Anand
Hazarilal	Govind Namdeo
Nekchand	Anjan Srivastav
Mrs. Saroj	Farida Jalal
Mrs. Hazarilal	Rohini Hattangadi
Anita	Ritu Shivpuri
Francis	Razak Khan
Damodar	Viju Khote
	Nasir Khan
Fakhruddin	Johnny Lever
Bua	Dina Pathak
Bansidhar Chakkiwala	Jagdeep
Gulab Chand	Asrani
Prakash	Sharman Joshi
Gajendra	Danny Denzongpa
	Samarjit
Special appearance	Urmila Matondkar
Dancer - 'Mujhe Saajan Ke Ghar Jaana Hai'	Sonali Bendre
	Aarti Baldev
	Beena Banerjee
	Suhas Bhalekar
	Gopi Bhalla
	Jaya Bhattacharya
	Sanyogita Bhave
	Sunil Chavan
Sushma	Aarti Chhabria
Owner of curry restaurant	Pak Daddy
	Vijay Deveshwar
	Vijay Deweshwar
	Subrat Dutta
	Chittaranjan Giri
	Brij Gopal
	Radhika Jadhav
	Amardeep Jha
	Pappu Khan
	Abhay Kulkarni
	Tirlok Malik
	Mitwa
	Madhav Moghe
	Kiran Nande
	Natasha
	Shiva Natrajan
	Ghanshyam Nayak
	Anita Neha
	Chandrakala Nihar
	Sitaram Panchal
	Renu Pandey
	Gopal Rajput
	Rajkishore Rana
	Kiran Randhawa
	Gitanjali Rao
	Anil Saxena
	Kuldeep Sharma
	Pratibha Sharma
	Ramesh Sharma
	Shashi Sharma
	Jeetu Shastri
	Anupam Shyam
	Ved Thappar
	Raj Tilak
	Bhim Vakani
	Pushpa Verma

Vaidehi (Manisha Koirala) lives with her husband Raghu (Jackie Shroff). On the outside, she lives a sophisticated life, but behind closed doors, her husband is abusive and has extramarital affairs. When she takes a stand for herself, she is banished from the household. She goes back to her parents' house in but they too reject her. Vaidehi soon finds out that she is pregnant.

Raghu gets into a car accident, which results in him being unable to father a child. When he discovers that Vaidehi is pregnant, he calls her, faking remorse, and asks for her to return. Vaidehi agrees, thinking Raghu has mended his ways. Raghu and his father plot for the child to become their heir and if Vaidehi intervenes, she will be killed. Meanwhile,Vaidehi is informed by a friend about Raghu's true intentions, and so she escapes from his henchmen. She is helped by Raju (Anil Kapoor), a petty, but kindhearted thief. He hears Vaidehi's story and gives her money from his heist to help. To hide from Raghu and his henchmen, Vaidehi gatecrashes a wedding procession.

At the wedding, she meets Maithili (Mahima Chaudhary), a bride-to-be from a middle-class family. Maithili is marrying a man who hails from a rich background. The two women witness Maithili's father being hassled by demands for an opulent wedding, which he cannot afford, and is forced to pay dowry. Vaidehi tries to convince Raju to give his money from the heist. He initially refuses but changing his mind, he returns to give his heist money to Vaidehi. The groom's friend attempts to rape Maithili. Having tolerated enough, she insults the groom's family and they flee from the wedding.

Meanwhile, Vaidehi is found by Raghu, and forced into going with him. On the way, they encounter a protest mob. Raghu gets out of the car, which gives Vaidehi the chance to escape. She arrives in Haripur, a small town, where she meets Janki(Madhuri Dixit), a theatre actress in love with her colleague. Janki is pregnant, but not married. She doesn't care for society's norms. She is lusted after by the theatre director, Puroshottam (Tinu Anand), an older man who keeps his wife, Lata (Jaya Bhattacharya), confined to their house. Puroshottam talks against Janki to her lover, which creates a rift between them. Janki is outraged and messes up a scene during a performance of the Ramayan. This leads to an outcry from the audience and she is assaulted by the audience, leading to her having a miscarriage. Vaidehi confronts Puroshottam, who threatens to call her husband. However, Lata intervenes and takes Vaidehi to the station and puts her on a train.

The train is robbed by bandits but the passengers are saved by Bulwa (Ajay Devgan), a local dacoit. Vaidehi faints at the sight of blood, and Bulwa takes her to the local midwife, Ramdulaari (Rekha). Ramdulaari bravely opposes the village leaders Virendra (Gulshan Grover) and Gajendra (Danny Denzongpa) who exploit innocent women, young and old. When her educated son, who is trying to educate the villagers against the wishes of Virendra and Gajendra, falls in love with Gajendra's daughter, Sushma (Aarti Chhabria), all hell breaks loose. Gajendra slyly locks Ramdulaari in her house and sets out to find her son. When her son runs away with Sushma, Virendra and Gajendra, along with their goons, rape Ramdulaari and burn her alive. In a fit of rage, Bhulva and his goons kill Virendra and his goons. Vaidehi escapes with Sushma and Ramdulaari's son.

Gajendra is making a move into politics, so when he is applauded by the local authorities, Vaidehi intervenes and exposes Gajendra as a rapist and fraud through a heart-wrenching speech, which drives all the women in the audience to assault Gajendra, who is later killed by Bhulva. The speech changes Raghu's attitude towards Vaidehi and he decides to mend his ways. The two return to New York as a proper married couple. Vaidehi gives birth to a daughter who is named Ramdulaari. She meets Raju again, who is now a taxi driver and married to Maithili. She invites him to a charity dance show with Janki in the main role, wherein all the money from her shows goes to fund women's organizations in India.

Release date	19-Sep-01
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Awards of the International Indian Film Academy

2002 Nominated Popular Award Actress in a Supporting Role Madhuri Dixit
Actress in a Supporting Role Rekha

Filmfare Awards

2002 Nominated Filmfare Award Best Supporting Actor Devgn, Ajay
Best Supporting Actress Madhuri Dixit
Best Supporting Actress Rekha

Screen Weekly Awards

2002 Nominated Screen Best Action Pappu Verma, Bhiku Verma
Best Choreography Ganesh Acharya For the song "Badi Mushkil".
Best Dialogue Rajkumar Santoshi, Ranjit Kapoor
Best Supporting Actress Madhuri Dixit
Best Supporting Actress Rekha

Zee Cine Awards

2002 Won Popular Award Best Supporting Actress Madhuri Dixit
Nominated Popular Award Best Supporting Actor Devgn, Ajay
Best Supporting Actress Rekha

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