Bollywood movie, Daman: A Victim Of Marital Voilence, directed by well known filmmaker Kalpana Lazmi was released on May 4, 2001/. The movie starred Raveena Tandon and Sanjay Suri in lead roles while Sayaji Shinde, Raima Sen, Bharti Jaffrey, Ranjan Khosal, Kalpana Barua, Monalisa and Dinesh Bishaya also played important roles in the film. The music of the film was given by Bupen Hazarika while the songs were rendered by Shantanu Mukherjee, Alka Yagnik, Hema Sardesai, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Dominique, Kalpana and Bhupen Hazarika himself.

Sanjay Sakia ( Sayaji Shinde ) is the elder son of the wealthy Sakia family. Sanjay always refuses to marry and is happy with his life. Sanjay is an alcoholic and is involved in the sexual relationship with some prostitutes. Finally, his family decides to get him married to a woman named, Durga ( Raveena Tandon ), who they believe will be able to tolerate the tantrums and weaknesses of Sanjay. Under his family’s pressure, Sanjay agrees to marry Durga. But on the very first night of their wedding, Sanjay remains unavailable at the home and spends that night with a prostitue instead of his wife.

Then from the very next day of Durga’s marriage she starts experiencing the tortures from Sanjay. First Sanjay forcibly performs sex with her and makes her pregnant. But he blames her pregnancy on his younger brother, Sunil Sakia ( Sanjay Suri ). Durga gives birth to a daughter and names her Deepa ( Raima Sen ). Sanjay becomes more furious on this as he was expecting a son from her. At the age of twelve, Deepa is forced to marry an older man but Durga stands against this. She runs away alongwith Deepa from the house. Sanjay kills Sunil for this and starts his search for Durga and Deepa?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Sar sar hawa
2. Hoon hoon pagal
3. Sun sun goria
4. Gum sum
5. Bahaar hi bahaaar