Gandasa

Gandasa
Directed by	Hasan Askari
Produced by	Jahangir Khan
Written by	Saleem Murad
Starring	Sultan Rahi Gori Tanzeem Hassan Shahida Mini Anwar Khan Nida Mumtaz Adeeb Rashid Mehmood
Music by	Wajahat Attre
Cinematography	Masood Butt
Production company	Nadria Films
Distributed by	Films
Release dates	April 16, 1991
Country	Pakistan
Language	Punjabi

Gandasa is a Pakistani film in Punjabi language, released on April 16, 1991 by screenwriter Saleem Murad. The film was directed Hasan Askari and produced by Jahangir Khan, in his debut as a producer.

Cast

• Sultan Rahi
• Gori
• Anwar Khan
• Nida Mumtaz
• Shahida Mini
• Tanzeem Hassan
• Asim Bukhari
• Adeeb
• Humayun Qureshi
• Rashid Mehmood
• Altaf Khan

History

A Gandasa is a Haryanvi and Punjabi implement primarily used in cultivation and farming. It consists of a long stick of wood (roughly the height of its user) with a wide blade attached to one end. It resembles a very large axe, although it is used in a different manner.

The use of the gandasa as a weapon was made famous by the Lollywood film Maula Jatt (1979) and its sequels, in which the implement was portrayed as an Excalibur-like weapon used in the Punjabi language Pakistani action films for fighting and killing other people.

External links

• Gandasa at IMDb
• Gandasa on Pakistan Film Magazine