साथी

This movie is a perfect example how to make a meaningful movie even without a big starcast. This is Aditya Pancholi's best movie. He is perfect in his job and portrayed the regret of doing his misdeeds. Mohsin Khan honestly did his work. He is as a foil to Suraj. Mahesh Bhatt is excel in making movies on crime and relations. Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal gave beautiful songs.

Nice. This movie is a perfect example how to make a meaningful movie even without a big starcast. This is Aditya Pancholi's best movie. He is perfect in his job and portrayed the regret of doing his misdeeds. Mohsin Khan honestly did his work. He is as a foil to Suraj. Mahesh Bhatt is excel in making movies on crime and relations. Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal gave beautiful songs.

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One of the major success for the Lead actor Aditya pancholi though he appears in the several commerical Successful movies like Malammal(1988) , Lakshar(1989) , Ladaai(1989) , Taqdeer kA Tamasha(1990) , Maha Sangram(1990) , Veeru Dada(1990) , Baap numberi Beta Dus numbri(1990)& Akayla(1991) but Saathi gave most recognition for him as a Lead actor

Both leading actors have given good performance. Specially Mohsin Khan who was a crickter. The script is tight enough to ensure there is no dull moment. Dialogues by Robin Bhatt are great. I am sure it deserves a higer rating.

Saathi review :

Al Pacino's Scarface (1983) caught the fancy of quite a few Bollywood filmmakers in the late 80s and we got four Scarface adaptations in less than two years. No surprise there!!

Mithun Chakraborty's Mujrim was the first to come in mid 1989 followed by Amitabh's Agneepath in early 1990. Next came Shatrughan Sinha's Atishbaaz (1991) and then Mahesh Bhatt's Saathi which were also inspired from the same source. Infact, a couple of scenes in Saathi and Atishbaaz are exactly same.

Anyway, Saathi is best remembered for Aditya Panscholi's solid performance as the Tony Montana styled anti hero. The role suited him perfectly and this is his career best act after Aatish (1994)'s Nawaab.

Marathi star Varsha Usgaonkar was cast as the heroine but she was paired with Mohsin Khan who played Panscholi's best friend turned foe. Anupam Kher and Paresh Rawal formed the supporting cast.

The film ran in to controversy for having a Pakistani actor Mohsin Khan and there were threats to ban it.

I saw the film at Badal Bijlee cinema, Matunga only for Varsha Usgaonkar who besides being a fellow Goan, was also my childhood crush and most favourite heroine of Marathi cinema. I have watched most of her Hindi endeavors also like Doodh Ka Karz (1990), Shikari (1991), Ghar Jamai (1992), Sone Ki Zanjeer (1992) and Honeymoon (1992). Asli fan!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

Saathi is an action crime drama film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and stars Aditya Pancholi, Mohsin Khan, Varsha Usgaonkar, Paresh Rawal, Avtar Gill, Raju Shrestha, Homi Wadia and Anupam Kher.

Two best friends Suraj and Amar find themselves at loggerheads and their friendship is tasted when Suraj decides to accept a life full of crime and Amar wishes to stay away from it.

The film which was a surprise hit film at the time of it's release had put Aditya Pancholi in the list of top actors as he was very impressive in his character of anti hero. The film which was more or less adapted from Scarface might not be as impressive as the masterpiece itself but still might be liked by the lovers of action, crime genre and will always be remembered for the solid performance by Aditya Pancholi and i must say that Aditya Pancholi is one of the most underrated name when it comes to playing anti hero characters.

The screenplay of the film is good, fast paced and engaging. Acting apart from Aditya Pancholi Paresh Rawal, Anupam Kher and Varsha Usgaonkar were impressive and rest of them including Mohsin Khan were decent to average.

Music of the film is good and songs like Aaj hum tum o sanam, Hui Aankh Nam, Zindagi ki Talash were very impressive.

Climax of the film is strong and so as the ending.

A must watch film for solid performance by Aditya Pancholi.