Cast:
Neha Dhupia, Raghuveer Yadav, Aman Verma
Director:
Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
Gandhi to Hitler, directed by Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, meanders aimlessly from Hitler’s bunker to a forested battle zone to congregations addressed by the Mahatma (played by Avijit Dutt) and intersperses all this with documentary footage of the Allied Forces’ attacks on Nazi Germany in the dying stages of the World War. What is it that this film is trying to tell us? There is no way of guessing. If there is a point that it’s trying to make, it’s too well concealed for ordinary mortals.
Taking off from two epistolary appeals that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi made to the Fuhrer during World War II, the film seeks to underscore the contrast between the Mahatma’s non-violent struggle against the British and the Nazi “an eye for an eye” philosophy. As if we didn’t know!
It is utterly silly and unintentionally funny. You want to laugh, but you squirm. The trouble with a film like Gandhi to Hitler is that its makers seem to hate the audience just as much as they claim to love Mahatma Gandhi’s pacifist teachings. Why else would they foist this monumental monstrosity on us? The film piles one agonizing sequence upon another with gay abandon and deadly earnestness without the slightest hint of a let-up at any point in its two-hour-plus run time? The audience would need a bomb shelter to escape the relentless onslaught.
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