Gandhi, My Father (2007)
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- 2h 16min
- Biography, Drama
- 27 Jul 2007 (USA)
- Movie
- 6 wins & 11 nominations.
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Cast
Akshaye Khanna | ... |
Harilal Gandhi
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Darshan Jariwala | ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Shefali Shah | ... |
Kasturba Gandhi
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Bhoomika Chawla | ... |
Gulab Gandhi
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Daniel Janks | ... |
Henry Polak
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Ilanit Shapiro | ... |
Sonja Schlesin
(as Illanit Shipiro)
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Mithilesh Chaturvedi | ... |
Zakaria
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Raj Zutshi | ... |
Grieving Fast Food Stall Owner
(as Rajendranath Zutshi)
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Bomie E. Dotiwala | ... |
Photographer
(as Bomi Dotiwalla)
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Greg Viljoen | ... |
General Ian Smutts
(as Greg Villojen)
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Rustom Irani | ... |
Mahadev Desai
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Nayan Shukla | ... |
Jeevan
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Padmesh Rawal | ... |
Narottamdas
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Dharmendra Gohil | ... |
Harilal's Arya Samaj room-mate
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Mona Ambegaonkar | ... |
Prostitute
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Steve Mullins | ... |
Customs Officer
(as Steve Mulins)
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Russell Byrne | ... |
British Officer
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Akhil Mishra | ... |
Shop Owner
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Sudipto Balav | ... |
Postman
(as Sudipto Ballav)
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Shriram Ranade | ... |
Creditor
(as Sriram Ranade)
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Athar Nawaaz | ... |
Indian Police Officer
(as Ather Nawaz)
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Prodyut Chatterjee | ... |
Priest
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Richard Ellis | ... |
Mr. Damji
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Natalie Hughes | ... |
Millie Polak
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Balakrishnan Thevar | ... |
Chaganlal
(as S. Balakrishnan Thevar)
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Rajeev Shukla | ... |
Train Ticket Collector
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Nikita N. Karandikar | ... |
Rami Gandhi
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Rohan Dave | ... |
Kanti Gandhi
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Siddhart S. Rajdoot | ... |
Shanti Gandhi
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Isha Sadve | ... |
Manu Gandhi
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Shreyas Paranjpe | ... |
Rasik Gandhi
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Rumaan Kidwai | ... |
Muslim Man 1
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Sadiq Sheikh | ... |
Muslim Man 2
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Kaustabh Samarth | ... |
Journalist 1
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Kamleshwar Bhagat | ... |
Journalist 2
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Bonnie Lee Bouman | ... |
European Lady
(as Bonnie Lee Bounman)
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Marion Hind | ... |
European Lady #2
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Purshottam Mukani | ... |
Businessman 1
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Ramakant Dayma | ... |
Businessman 2
(as Ramakant Dayama)
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Shomendra Bose | ... |
Businessman 3
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Pradeep Kuckreja | ... |
Businessman 4
(as Pradeep Kukreja)
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Sanjay Swaraj | ... |
Harilal's drunken friend 1
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Appub Ahieshhan | ... |
Harilal's drunken friend 2
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Sujjat Sudagar | ... |
Harilal's drunken friend 3
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Mahesh Thakur | ... |
Horse carriage driver
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Manish Rawal | ... |
Domestic Help
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Mr. Joshi | ... |
Secretary
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Suchitra Gadgil | ... |
Dr. Sushila Nayyar
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Rupali Bhave | ... |
Abha
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Amruta More | ... |
Manu
(as Amrita More)
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Prashant Tate | ... |
Hospital Staff; Officer
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Anil Bhosle | ... |
Constable
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Dinkar B. | ... |
Ward boy
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Prajakta Mali | ... |
Gulab's friend 1
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Himani Joshi | ... |
Gulab's friend 2
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Jhanvi Pathak | ... |
Gulab's friend 3
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Anuja Khaire | ... |
Gulab's friend 4
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Tarla Joshi | ... |
Elderly lady
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Promod Ghosh | ... |
Mr. Naidu
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Rajesh Mahendale | ... |
Photographer 1
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Ashish Mehta | ... |
Photographer 2
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Sunil Mozar | ... |
Religious fanatic 1
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Prasan Ketkar | ... |
Religious fanatic 2
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Sanjay Davra | ... |
Ramdas
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Sanjeev Giriwer | ... |
Muslim associate
(as Sanjiv Tiwari)
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Ramesh Kulkarni | ... |
Young domestic helper
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Brian Sloane | ... |
Magistrate
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Taruna Dave | ... |
Gulab's mother
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Tusshar Tripathi | ... |
Gulab's father
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Ahmed Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Kasam Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Surya Sinh Solanki | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Satish Dave | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Abbas Mansuri | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Ishwar Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Mohd. Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Suresh Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Prakash Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Amrit Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Hasmukh Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Junior Mohd | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
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Pooja | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Nidhi | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Anuja | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Disha | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Jaya B. | ... |
Garba Dancer
(as Jaya)
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Rinkoo | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Ahuti | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Prerna | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Pratik | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Jay. S. | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Jay. Z. | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Manoj | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Sarvesh | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Harsh | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Virang | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Rajesh | ... |
Garba Dancer
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Rajiv Gupta | ... |
Train Ticket Collector
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Ahmad Mir | ... |
Mahabharat Troupe
(as Ahmed Mir)
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Dinesh Sharma | ... |
Shankar
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Ranjit Batra | ... |
Indian 'Brown Sahab' (uncredited)
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Directed by
Feroz Abbas Khan |
Written by
Feroz Abbas Khan | ... | |
Chandulal Dalal | ... | (book "Harilal Gandhi - A Life") |
Neelamben Parikh | ... | (book "Gandhiji's Lost Jewel") |
H. Banerjee | ... | (subtitles) |
Produced by
Anil Gupta | ... | associate producer |
Anil Kapoor | ... | producer |
Sameer Kavthekar | ... | line producer |
Iqbal Kidwai | ... | line producer |
Triloksingh Rajput | ... | line producer |
Kanwalinder Singh | ... | production executive |
Music by
Piyush Kanojia |
Cinematography by
David McDonald |
Editing by
A. Sreekar Prasad | ... | (as Sreekar Prasad) |
Editorial Department
Vinod Durgavle | ... | on-line editor |
Radhey Lalsa | ... | Promo Editor |
Ken Metzker | ... | digital intermediate colorist |
Siddharth S Pande | ... | Visual Promotions |
Majid Shaikh | ... | assistant editor bts |
Konstantinos Topalis | ... | television commercial editor |
Production Design by
Nitin Chandrakant Desai |
Costume Design by
Sujata Sharma |
Makeup Department
Penelope Smith | ... | makeup department head |
Penny Smith | ... | make-up and hair designer |
Production Management
Kirit Sahgal | ... | post-production manager |
Firoz Shaikh | ... | unit production manager |
Jayesh Upadhyay | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ankur | ... | assistant director |
Rumaan Kidwai | ... | second assistant director |
Ridhima Pandey | ... | assistant director |
Karishma Sahi | ... | third assistant director |
Prateek Sapra | ... | third assistant director |
Urvashi Shah | ... | assistant director |
Gurmeett Singh | ... | first assistant director (as Gurmmeet Singh) |
Gurmmeet Singh | ... | first assistant director |
Ritnika Singh | ... | assistant director |
Rajnish Sinha | ... | assistant director |
Balakrishnan Thevar | ... | second assistant director |
Alwyn van den Heever | ... | first assistant director: South Africa |
Tinnu Verma | ... | action director (as Tinu Verma) |
Art Department
Hemant Bhatkar | ... | assistant art director |
Sanjay Karole | ... | assistant art director |
Shahabatullah Khan | ... | assistant art director |
Nitin Kulkarni | ... | associate art director |
Mitali Mahajan | ... | assistant art director |
Girish Patil | ... | assistant art director |
Prashant Vichare | ... | assistant art director |
Sound Department
Melissa Bylsma | ... | sound coordinator |
Cherag Cama | ... | Associate Production Sound Mixer |
Sajjan Choudhary | ... | foley artist (as Sajjan Chowdhari) |
Subir Kumar Das | ... | sound engineer: pre-mix |
Trevor Dowswell | ... | sound coordinator |
Amrit Pritam Dutta | ... | additional sound editor (as Amrit Pritam) / foley editor (as Amrit Pritam) |
Gupta | ... | foley artist (as Guptaji) |
Justin Jose | ... | surround music mixer |
Sinoy Joseph | ... | assistant re-recording mixer |
David Kitchens | ... | sound supervisor |
Shajith Koyeri | ... | sound editor |
Ashish Manchanda | ... | mastering |
Jeff Merritt | ... | post-audio assistant |
Manik Mukherjee | ... | foley editor |
Krishnanunni N.R. | ... | adr mixer |
Ridhima Pandey | ... | sound assistant |
Resul Pookutty | ... | sound designer / sound recordist / supervising sound editor |
Kimberly Quigley | ... | sound coordinator (as Kimberly Brennecke) |
Vivek Sachidanand | ... | assistant sound recordist (as Vivek) |
Karnail Singh | ... | foley artist |
Balakrishnan Thevar | ... | supervising sound editor |
Ben Zarai | ... | re-recording mixer |
Special Effects by
Mike H.G. Bates | ... | special effects makeup |
Mike Stringer | ... | special effects makeup |
Visual Effects by
Ritesh Aggarwal | ... | digital compositor |
Vinay Singh Chuphal | ... | flame artist |
Deepal Dass | ... | compositor |
Mahesh Deshpande | ... | conformist |
Mukesh Dongre | ... | compositor |
Rohini Joshi | ... | visual effects artist |
Pankaj Khandpur | ... | creative director |
Rohit Korgaonkar | ... | digital compositor |
Ken Metzker | ... | digital intermediate colourist |
P. Mohan | ... | digital compositor |
Paresh Navlakha | ... | digital compositor |
Sandesh Pai | ... | digital effects artist |
Ashish Pradhan | ... | digital effects artist |
Rajiv Raghunathan | ... | senior digital intermediate producer |
Satish Ratakonda | ... | flame artist |
Shaikh Rizwan | ... | digital compositor |
Vishwas Savanur | ... | 2d supervisor: Tata Elxsi |
Piku Shahani | ... | visual effects coordinator |
Kondareddy Suresh | ... | visual effects |
Prasad Sutar | ... | visual effects supervisor |
Shailendra Swarnkar | ... | digital compositor |
Shaji Velappan | ... | compositing supervisor |
Framaraz Wankadia | ... | compositor |
Merchant Zahid | ... | visual effects artist |
Camera and Electrical Department
Dharmendra Bhurji | ... | second unit: dolly grip |
Srinivas Chandran | ... | first assistant camera |
Himmat Deol | ... | best boy grip |
Fazal Khan | ... | grip best boy |
Baldev Patel | ... | Steadicam Assistant |
Grant Antony Rowe | ... | key grip: South Africa |
Sanjay Sami | ... | key grip |
Kapil Verma | ... | steadicam operator |
Deon Vermeulen | ... | steadicam operator: South Africa |
Casting Department
Bonnie Lee Bouman | ... | casting director: South Africa |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Wolfgang Ender | ... | costume supervisor: South Africa |
Sandeep Kumar | ... | daily breakdown and aging / wardrobe supervisor |
Additional Crew
Murli Chhatwani | ... | distribution |
Rahul Nanda | ... | Campaign Designer |
Siddharth S Pande | ... | visual promotions (as Siddharth Pande) |
Aqeel Qureshi | ... | post production executive |
Grant Antony Rowe | ... | crew: Second Unit Grip (as Grant Rowe) |
Kirit Sahgal | ... | production executive |
Manjunath Shetty | ... | chief accountant |
Chin2 Singh | ... | Making Of |
Jayesh Thakkar | ... | chief accountant |
Balakrishnan Thevar | ... | assistant to director |
Production Companies
- Anil Kapoor Film Company
- Eros Worldwide (in association with)
Distributors
- Eros Worldwide (2007) (World-wide)
- Jio Cinema (India) (video) (VOD)
- Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2008) (United States) (DVD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Glamsham.com (on-line promotion)
- Juniper Post (sound post-production)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family, had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England, became a Barrister, returned home, and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas and Devdas. Subsequently, the family returned to South Africa, leaving Harilal alone. As Harilal did not do well in his studies he got married to Gulab without his parents' blessings. Mohandas then invited Harilal to South Africa and on his Secretary's request also invited Gulab, who had recently given birth to a daughter, Rami. Harilal wanted to be a Barrister like his father but found his movements restricted as his father wanted him to actively participate against the Satanist and Racist British regime, leading to Harilal being arrested and imprisoned. Harilal's hopes of becoming a Barrister were dashed when Mohandas sent his nephew, Chaganlal, instead, and when Chaganlal proved a failure, sent Sorabjee to England in his place. Harilal then changed his name to Pranlal Mehta in a vain attempt to return to India. A frustrated Gulab, now a mother of 4, did return to India with her children. After actively protesting draconian British Laws, especially the Christian Act that only recognized marriages performed by a Christian Priest, by General Ian Smutts, Mohandas was imprisoned, and upon being released returned to India. He hoped that Harilal would follow in his footsteps, but Harilal re-located to Calcutta, found a job as a Cashier, embezzled and borrowed money to buy imported cloths, in vast contrast to Mohandas' campaign to burn foreign clothing, got himself in trouble and debt, prompting Gulab to return to leave him. Harilal did return to Gujarat after he heard of his son, Shanti's and Gulab's passing. He did get involved in the freedom struggle temporarily, but was lured by some businessmen, who used his and his dad's name to get people to invest, and then disappeared, forcing Mohandas to publicly disown his son, who was then arrested and imprisoned. Unstable, unemployed, unable to keep up with his father's lofty standards, Harilal considered becoming a Christian, but then with Zakaria's help became an Islamic and changed his name to Abdullah, prompting Kasturba to pay him a visit and talk him to becoming a Hindu again. Then when Mohandas announced the beginning of 'Do or Die' campaign in Bombay during 1942, he was placed under house arrest in the Agha Khan Palace with Hindus calling him a traitor and Muslims praying for his death. This is where a distraught, disheveled and bearded Harilal will meet his parents. Will his parents accept him as he is and welcome him back? Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) |
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Box Office
Cumulative Worldwide Gross | $2,015,004 |
Did You Know?
Trivia | The film caused Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher's relationship to go sour. Anil had intended on casting Anupam in the film as Gandhi. Anupam agreed, then started his own film "Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara" .This angered Anil as he thought Anupam was playing the role of Gandhi in the film and he did not inform Anil he was going to make a film on Gandhi. Anupam reasoned that he was not playing Gandhi in his home production, but it was too late. Anil felt betrayed by Anupam. See more » |