Amba

(1990)

Prabha (Kiran Juneja) lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Thakur Jasbir Singh (Sudhir Pandey) and brother Kunwar Ranvir (Rajan Sippy). She receives a marriage proposal from equally wealthy Thakur Shamsher Singh (Mangal Dhillon), but rejects him, gets married to Rajendra (Kanwaljeet Singh), re-locates to move-in with him and his widowed and principled mom, Amba Bhanupratap Singh (Shabana Azmi), & wayward brother Suraj (Anil Kapoor), where she soon gives birth to Rajat. Rajendra, who secretly visits local courtesan, Munnibai (Upasana Singh), returns home intoxicated one night and sexually molests and then kills Geeta (Jaya Mathur), who is their servant, Bhiku (Sujit Kumar)'s daughter, but is treated like a family-member. Then when Amba returns home after watching Ram Leela, she apprehends Rajendra, has him arrested, he is eventually tried in Court, found guilty after Amba's testimony, and hanged. A devastated and humiliated Prabha swears to avenge his death, and leaves to live with her equally vengeful dad and brother, and together they plot to turn Amba and Suraj's lives upside down - so much so that Amba and Suraj not only lose their ancestral estate, their house is burned down, they are blacklisted by the community, where Amba is the Sarpanch, and to top it all up, Suraj is arrested for killing Shamsher and sexually molesting Prabha, and if found guilty will also be hanged like his brother.