Gandhi, My Father (2007)

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- 6 wins & 11 nominations total

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Akshaye Khanna

Harilal Gandhi

Darshan Jariwala

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Shefali Shah

Kasturba Gandhi

Bhoomika Chawla

Gulab Gandhi

Daniel Janks

Henry Polak

Ilanit Shapiro

Sonja Schlesin
(as Illanit Shipiro)

Mithilesh Chaturvedi

Zakaria

Raj Zutshi

Grieving Fast Food Stall Owner
(as Rajendranath Zutshi)

Bomie E. Dotiwala

Photographer
(as Bomi Dotiwalla)

Greg Viljoen

General Ian Smutts
(as Greg Villojen)

Rustom Irani

Mahadev Desai

Nayan Shukla

Jeevan

Padmesh Rawal

Narottamdas

Dharmendra Gohil

Harilal's Arya Samaj room-mate

Mona Ambegaonkar

Prostitute

Steve Mullins

Customs Officer
(as Steve Mulins)

Russell Byrne

British Officer

Akhil Mishra

Shop Owner

Good Movie over all, but could have been better

The movie took a new angle to Gandhi's life, which is nice to see and it shows how human he was. His relationship with Harilal is something that Gandhi was troubled by and mentioned it several times as his failure as a father in his autobiography.

My big gripe is that I thought Gandhi was surprisingly uncharismatic in the movie. It could have been better acted by the person who played Gandhi. Some of Gandhi's statements seemed too smug and it seemed as if he was intentionally portrayed in a negative light in some parts of the movie.

The movie is not really all-rounded, but focused only narrowly on the relationship of the father and son. The rest is blurred out and only used to show the time frame and the general setting of the movie.

Overall nice movie if you keep in mind that it is not a complete picture.

DheSA
Oct 13, 2007
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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.