Daata

A respected school-teacher publishes a book on world religions, arranges his daughters marriage but cannot afford the dowry demanded by the grooms father, resulting in devastating consequences for his family. Daata is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language Action Drama film featuring Mithun Chakraborty, Shammi Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Suresh Oberoi, Supriya Pathak, Amrish Puri and Saigal. Sultaan Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Sultan Ahmed. Daata is written by Sultan Ahmed, M. Akhtar and K.b. Pathak and it is directed by Sultan Ahmed. Daata was released on 23rd June 1989 and takes a screen time of 135 minutes. Daata was made on a budget of ₹4 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by K. B. Pathak. Cinematography was done by R. D. Mathur and editing by Mukhtar Ahmed. The music was composed by Anandji Veerji Shah along with Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Kalyanji Anandji.