The Indian movie titled Tawaif and directed by B. R. Chopra was released in 1985 and is categorized as comedy, drama, romance, family.
Key cast members of Tawaif include Ashok Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Rati Agnihotri.
The plot of Tawaif is: The film mainly is about a tawaif (courtesan or someone who willingly or otherwise adopts the profession of entertaining others for a living), who accidentally enters the life of Dawood (Rishi Kapoor) who already has fallen in love with an upcoming writer (Poonam Dhillon). The situation becomes such that he has to claim that she (the Tawaif) happens to be his wife. Soon the Tawaif makes room in everybody's heart by her softness and intelligence, love and affection. It becomes difficult for Dawood as he cannot forget his first love (Poonam Dhillon), nor the Tawaif (Rati Agnihotri) and also that he cannot tell the identity of Rati to anybody else. However, gradually all problems are solved, misunderstandings are removed and Dawood willingly accepts Rati, while Suleman Seth (Deepak Parashar) who also loves Poonam, accepts her. The songs of the film were nicely written by Hassan Kamal and composed by Chopra's favourite, Ravi. The song "Tere Pyar Ki Tamanna" and "Bahut De Kar Di" are very meaningful and ear-pleasing..
