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Gawaahi

1989 Bollywood film by Anant Balani

1989 (1989) (India)

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Gawaahi (English: Testimony) is a 1989 Bollywood film directed by Anant Balani. It was his directorial debut.^[1] The film stars Zeenat Aman, Shekhar Kapur, Ranjeeta Kaur and Ashutosh Gowariker. It was based on the 1934 play The Night of January 16th, a courtroom drama by Ayn Rand.^[2]^[3]

Plot

A courtroom drama around the disclosures and cross-examinations of key witnesses of mysterious death of leading business tycoon Ranjeet Chaudhary (Shekhar Kapoor).

Cast

Zeenat Aman as Janhavi Kaul
Tanuja as Advocate Bharucha
Shekhar Kapur as Ranjeet Chaudhary
Ranjeeta Kaur as Shashi Chaudhary
Ashutosh Gowariker as Sayed Akhtar Rampuri
Vikram Gokhale as Prosecutor Tiwari
Vivek Vaswani as Tejchand Advani
Avinash Kharshikar as Ramakant Shinde
Hosi Vasunia as Inspector Vasunia
Shammi as Betty Lobo
Ravi Patwardhan as Judge
G.P. Singh as Colonel Ghai
Rakesh Shrivastav as building watchman
Gautam Siddharth as handwriting expert

Crew

Director: Anant Balani
Dialogues: Hemendra Bhatia
Producers: Rajiv Mehra, Adityaraj Kapoor

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Sardar Anjum; all music is composed by Uttam-Jagdish

No.	Title	Singer(s)
1.	"Bhool Bhulaiyya Sa Yeh Jeevan"	Pankaj Udhas, Anuradha Paudwal
2.	"Dekh Ke Tumko"	Pankaj Udhas, Anuradha Paudwal
3.	"Dil Ki Baatein Hain"	Pankaj Udhas, Anuradha Paudwal
4.	"Khat Mein Likha Hai"	Anuradha Paudwal

References

^ Iyer, Shilpa Bharatan (3 September 2003). "Anant Balani: Indian Director". Variety.
^ "Eyecatchers: Baba Amte nominated for prestigious UN Human Rights Award". India Today. 31 December 1988.
^ Vijayakar, Rajiv (10 December 2010). "That Touch of Class". The Financial Express. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014.

External links

Gawaahi at IMDb

Ayn Rand

Bibliography

Novels	We the Living (1936) Anthem (1938) The Fountainhead (1943) Atlas Shrugged (1957) Ideal (2015)
Nonfiction books	For the New Intellectual (1961) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (1979) The Art of Fiction (2000)
Collected essays	The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966) The Romantic Manifesto (1969) The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971) Philosophy: Who Needs It (1982)
Screenplays	Red Pawn (1932) Love Letters (1945) You Came Along (1945) The Fountainhead (1949)
Stage plays	Night of January 16th (1934) Ideal (1934) The Unconquered (1940)
Other writings	The Early Ayn Rand (1984) Letters of Ayn Rand (1995) Journals of Ayn Rand (1997)
Characters	Liberty 5-3000 List of Atlas Shrugged characters John Galt

Adaptations

Screen	The Night of January 16th (1941) We the Living (1942) The Fountainhead (1949) Gawaahi (1989) Atlas Shrugged (film series): Part I (2011), Part II (2012), Part III (2014)
Stage	The Unconquered (1940) The Fountainhead (2014)