Pak Daman is remembered - if at all - for being something a tad different from the usual run of the mill offered by 95% of Lollywood film makers. The movie could almost be classified as a crime thriller rather than the usual romantic piffle.

The film begins with ageing lawyer Santosh eloping with sweetheart Sabiha and forcing his best mate to keep the matter a secret from fire breathing mother in law Ragni. We aren't told why Santosh is so keen to keep the matter a secret but you can guess the worst. However Lehri just can't manage to stomach a secret and blurts out everything to a stunned Ragni who proceeds to cut her son off from her massive inheritance and the family zillions. Santosh realizing that life won't be a bed of roses without the riches he is accustomed to decides to take his bride and face the music in the form of the fire breathing monster Ragni. At first things don't go too smoothly as mother rants and raves but gradually she is won over by the newlyweds and begins to take to Sabiha as "one of us". Later Ragni decides to send a visibly 50 year old Santosh to do his Bachelors degree in the UK and thus Sabiha is left alone to fend on her own for four years while her hubby does the student thing in London.

First up Sabiha gives birth to a baby girl and things proceed merrily until a month before Santosh is due to return the doorbell rings and a bombshell is dropped by the ghastly visitors. A reptilian prostitute arrives with her mousy pimp and she tells Ragni that Sabiha is in fact her daughter; the daughter of a cheap two bit prostitute. Ragni rages like never before and ends up compelling her distraught daughter in law to literally go jump in the lake, which Sabiha dutifully does…but later she is rescued in an unconscious state by some trendy passersby who happen to be connected to the most dastardly criminal network in the country!

Thus poor suicidal Sabiha is now in the heinous clutches of a most deadly and ruthless criminal group who are hatching plans to make use of her as a key device in achieving their nefarious deeds. It so happens that the criminal gangs king pin (or Queen pin) happens to be the spitting image of Sanober (Sabiha) and the gang are planning to use her as a decoy or alibi to cover for the criminal Catwoman-like Boss Lady while she goes on her crime sprees looting and pillaging the city for all its worth. Poor good Sabiha is turned from saintly Sanober to super smuggler Shahida but alas for the crime gang, one of their heists goes horribly wrong and the police are led to their underground hideout. While the evil Boss Lady Sabiha and her cohorts manage to escape, they leave the good Sabiha behind deliberately so that the police will mistake her for the evil Boss Lady and incarcerate her by mistaken identity while the real nasty piece of work can enjoy her millions.

Years have gone by meanwhile and a heartbroken Santosh has become a judge while his (and good Sabiha's) daughter has grown up into a pretty young lawyer Deeba who is romancing another fellow law graduate Ejaz in her spare time. Good Sabiha having been caught is now up to her ears in it with the court case going badly against her but Deeba who is her real daughter somehow senses that she is an innocent pawn in a big tangled web and decides to take up her cause. Meanwhile Santosh has to find out why his wife so suddenly decided to pick up and leave him while he was away in London…little does he know that his evil, conniving, scheming, malicious mother was responsible for all this mess. Now it remains to be seen whether things can untangle themselves sufficiently for the film to wind its way to the expected "happy ending".

The film was quite a success at the Box Office, celebrating a country wide Silver Jubilee and suggesting yet again that the public was quite happy to watch something away from the staple diet of romance and tragedy. Santosh Kumar was the producer as well as the main star of the film but at he has a difficult time passing as a young law with his considerably puffy face and wrinkles and jet black died hair rather giving the game away. Sabiha looks fine but had already lost whatever semblance of a figure she may ever have had. However the film is essentially a Sabiha dominated film as she has a juicy double role to get her teeth into and really does relish the prospect of playing the evil, chain-smoking Boss Lady super criminal to the absolute hilt. It's yet another feather in her already highly decorated cap and she even turns in a spectacular show-stopping dance number with Madame Noor Jehan's super saucy iss jhoomti mehfil main…performing her stunning dance number while just barely being able to maintain her drunken balance, dressed in a breathtakingly bizarre outfit. Deeba is fair as the sprightly young lawyer but Ejaz lacks spark. Ragni does justice to the role of dragonesque mother while Aalia is mostly utilized for her unparalleled dancing ability and her spectacularly curvaceous hips!