Producer: Jagmohan Mundhra
Director: Jagmohan Mundhra
Cast: Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Gulshan Grover, Govind Namdeo, Raghuvir Yadav, Lillette Dubay, Deepti Naval
Music: Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Daan Singh

‘Bawandar’ or The Sandstorm is based on the true story of Bhanwari Devi, a community worker in rural Rajasthan, who was raped by three members of a family because she protested against a child marriage in their family. Thus Bhanwari Devi (Nandita Das) changes to Saavri, while Raghuvir Yadav plays her husband, a rickshaw-puller. Saavri's quiet crusade is particularly against child marriage, for which she incurs the wrath of the upper caste Gujjars and is raped by three of them in front of her husband. The film shows the crude ways of the upper caste men in rural India and focuses on the impotent system. After raping, the men curl their moustaches as a show of manly pride; the eager doctor who wants to put his fingers into Savri’s privates; the cop telling Saavri to take her clothes off as evidence of rape and later masturbating in it; the local MLA apprehending the accused to only later ask them if it was an enjoyable experience and the lady police who tells Saavri that she should consider herself lucky to have had three different men besides her husband. These are the scenes in the film that are crude, very disturbing, never the less facts that one cannot deny. Saavri's case has the ingredients to lure opulent, but insensitive, social workers from New Delhi. Clad in expensive saris and tasteful jewellery, they arrive with their bottles of mineral water to lend support.
 
The story, a narrative flashback by Amy (Laila Rouass), a Western researcher, who is assisted in her task by an old classmate Ravi (Rahul Khanna), a resident of Jaipur, takes you through the struggle that Saavri incurred in her process to get justice.