Prem Chopra

Geeta, an educated woman, gets married to Ratan. However, Ratan believes that educated women are incapable of managing a family and refuses to accept Geeta. Tormented by Ratan's behaviour, Geeta leaves Ratan and goes on to become a doctor.

Rai (Sanjeev Kumar) is the country’s most powerful smuggler, surrounded by his fortress of power and money. Till one day his daughter Sonia (Poonam Dhillon) falls in love with Ravi (Shashi Kapoor) a police officer. SAWAAL is a powerful confrontation of life’s greatest motivating forces - self against selfishness, love against power, good against evil.

A man and his wife live in peace with his stepbrother and his wife, but when some property issues crop up, the group dynamic shifts.