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Sangdil Sanam (संगदिल सनम)

Sangdil Sanam (संगदिल सनम) is a 1994 Hindi-language drama and romance film directed and produced by Shomu Mukherjee, starring Salman Khan as Kishan and Manisha Koirala as Sanam. It was released in India on 16 December 1994 and was a commercial failure, recorded by Box Office India as a disaster.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Release	16 December 1994 (India), in Hindi¹
Director and producer	Shomu Mukherjee¹
Lead cast	Salman Khan (Kishan), Manisha Koirala (Sanam), Kiran Kumar (Shankar Dayal Khurana), Alok Nath (Kailash Nath), Reema Lagoo (Savitri Nath)¹
Production banner	Kajol Magnum²
Music	Anand–Milind; lyrics by Sameer³^•²
Box office	Total nett gross ₹7,325,000 against a budget of ₹14,000,000; verdict: Disaster²
IMDb rating	4.2/10 (about 785 votes)⁴

Spoilers

Plot

The film centers on a betrayal between two friends. Kailash Nath is the manager of a bank and lives comfortably with his wife Savitri and son Kishan. He is close to his bank's watchman, Shankar Dayal Khurana, and arranges the marriage of Kishan with Shankar's daughter Sanam. The bank is then robbed, and Kailash is framed for the crime and sentenced to 12 years in prison; after completing his sentence, he learns that Shankar, who committed the robbery, is now the town's mayor. His wife and son are untraceable.⁵^•⁶

The second half follows the grown-up Kishan, who goes to Khurana's bungalow to take his bride home. He finds a stubborn and rude Sanam unwilling to go with him and brings her back by force, unaware that she has a surprise in store for him and his mother.⁶

Cast and crew

Salman Khan plays Kishan and Manisha Koirala plays Sanam in the leads. The supporting cast includes Kiran Kumar as Shankar Dayal Khurana, Alok Nath as Kailash Nath, Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Savitri Nath, Raza Murad as Daman "Chamda Dada", Ashok Saraf as Bhalchander, Beena Banerjee as Mrs. Sharda Khurana, and Pradeep Ram Singh Rawat as Pradeep.¹^•⁷ Shomu Mukherjee wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay with Tanveer Khan; Anwar Khan wrote the dialogue.²^•³

Music

The songs were composed by the duo Anand–Milind with lyrics by Sameer. The soundtrack includes "Aankho Se" (Alka Yagnik and Amit Kumar), "Dharti Bane Dawaat" (Kavita Krishnamurthy and S P Balasubrahmanyam), "One Two Three" (Amit Kumar), "Le Le Mera Naam Le" (Suneeta Rao), and the title song "Sanam Sangdil Sanam" (Amit Kumar).³ IMDb trivia notes that this was the last film for which Amit Kumar sang for Salman Khan.¹

Box office

Box Office India lists the film as a disaster. It opened on about 70 screens with a first day of ₹1,000,000 and a first week of ₹47,00,000, ending its run with a total nett gross of ₹7,325,000 against a budget of ₹14,000,000. Worldwide gross was ₹1,28,87,500, including overseas gross of $25,000, with about 948,000 footfalls.² Among 1994 releases it ranked 68th by nett gross in India.⁸

Reception and availability

The film holds an IMDb rating of 4.2/10, with an unweighted mean of 6.5 from its voters.⁴ Rotten Tomatoes lists no critic reviews for it.⁹ The film remains available on streaming services; in India it can be watched on Amazon Prime Video and JioHotstar, and it streams free with ads on Tubi and ShemarooMe in some regions.¹⁰

Reported runtimes differ across databases, from 2 hours 2 minutes (Times of India) to 2 hours 28 minutes (Apple TV) and about 2 hours 36 minutes (IMDb); Box Office India gives 151 minutes.¹¹^•¹²^•²

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026