Gour Hari Dastaan

Gour Hari Dastan
Directed by	Anant Mahadevan
Produced by	Bindiya Khanolkar; Sachin Khanolkar
Written by	C. P. Surendran
Starring	Vinay Pathak; Konkona Sen Sharma; Ranvir Shorey; Tannishtha Chatterjee
Music by	Dr. L. Subramaniam
Cinematography	Alphonse Roy
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Release date	14 August 2015; ; ; ; ;
Running time	114 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Gour Hari Dastan – The Freedom File is a 2015 Indian, biographical film on freedom fighter Gour Hari Das, directed by Anant Mahadevan. The film starred Vinay Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranvir Shorey and Tannishtha Chatterjee, among others. The film depicts the life of the Indian freedom fighter from Odisha, Sri Gour Hari Das.

The film released on 14 August 2015, and received good response from critics.

Plot

Gour Hari Dastaan is a story of an Odisha freedom fighter, Gour Hari Das who made his way through a long battle of silent war that lasted for 32 years, against his own government to prove his patriotic association towards the nation. He fought for a certificate recognizing his work as a freedom fighter which took three full decades to arrive. At the age of 84, the much sought-after certificate, when it was ultimately awarded, was a bittersweet victory.^[4]

Cast

Vinay Pathak as Gour Hari Das
Konkona Sen Sharma as Lakshmi Das
Ranvir Shorey as Rajiv Singhal
Tannishtha Chatterjee as Anita
Vikram Gokhale as Chief Minister
Vipin Sharma as Ahirkar
Rajit Kapoor as Mohan Joshi
Saurabh Shukla as Special Secretary – Freedom Cell
Neha Pendse as Neha Das
Asrani as Khadi Commission Boss
Parikshat Sahni as Principal
Murli Sharma as Godbole
Viju Khote as Grossary Man
Jackie Shroff
Ashok Banthia as Hari Das (Gour Hari Das' Father)
Rahul Vohra as Rajiv Mitra
Vinay Apte as MLA Walve
Siddharth Jadhav
Neena Kulkarni as Ms. Apte
Bharat Dabholkar as Commando 1
Upendra Limaye as Jail Chief
Surendra Rajan as Gandhiji
Sandeep Kulkarni as Home Minister
Suhas Palshikar as 1st Gandhiwadi
Kishore Pradhan as Retired Postman
Ganesh Yadav
Achint Kaur
Ananth Narayan Mahadevan
Deepak Satsule as Alok
Vidya Malvade as Tanvi
Chhaya Kadam as Khadi Commission
Khushboo as Rajiv's feminist-wife
Satish Pulekar
Pradeep Haldankar
Gary Richardson as British Teacher
Sunil Shinde

Soundtrack

All music composed by L. Subramaniam.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"A Country Gone Wrong"	L Subramaniam	0:38
2.	"A Country Wins Freedom"	L Subramaniam	0:22
3.	"A Dream Fulfilled"	L Subramaniam	0:48
4.	"A New Era Dawns"	L Subramaniam	0:33
5.	"Atharva Veda"	Manjikudi Shastri	1:17
6.	"Babul Mora"	L Subramaniam	4:06
7.	"Denial Of The Truth"	L Subramaniam	0:58
8.	"Failing Memory"	L Subramaniam	0:41
9.	"Holding On To The Past"	L Subramaniam	2:30
10.	"Hope Recedes"	L Subramaniam	0:59
11.	"Lest I Forget"	L Subramaniam	0:35
12.	"Love Theme"	L Subramaniam	0:39
13.	"Page From The Past"	L Subramaniam	2:22
14.	"Raghupati Raghav"	Narayana Subramaniam	3:17
15.	"Right Now"	Bindu Subramaniam	4:01
16.	"The Englishman And The Flag"	L Subramaniam	0:47
17.	"The Past Is A Memory"	L Subramaniam	0:18
18.	"The Truth Dawns On Alok"	L Subramaniam	0:32
19.	"The Truth Stares"	L Subramaniam	3:16
20.	"Vaishnava Janato Ft. Kavita Krishnamurthy"	Pandit Jasraj	3:10
21.	"Vaishnava Janato Remembering Gandhi"	Kavita Krishnamurthy	5:32
22.	"War Of Words"	L Subramaniam	1:31
Total length:			38:52