Gandhi My Father (2006)

Movie Name : Gandhi My Father
Tagline : one family's tragedy was the price of a nation's freedom
Year of Release : 2007
Release Date : 3 August 2007
Genre : Drama

Banner : Anil Kapoor Film Company
Presenter : Anil Kapoor Film Company, Eros International
Producer : Anil Kapoor
Associate Producer : Anil Gupta


Director : Feroz Abbas Khan
Cast : Akshaye Khanna, Bhoomika Chawla, Shefali Shah, Darshan Jariwala, Daniel Janks
Music Director : Piyush Kanojia
Cinematographer : David Macdonald
Story Writer : Feroz Abbas Khan
Editor : Sreekar Prasad
Art Director : Nitin Desai
Production Designer : Nitin Desai
Costume Designer : Sujata Sharma
Sound Designer : Resul Pookutty
Hair Designer : Penny Smith
Make-up Designer : Penny Smith
Line Producer : Iqbal Kidwai
Publicity Designer : Rahul Nanda, Himanshu Nanda
Photographer : David Macdonald



Synopsis :
Gandhi has always been compelling, complex and strangely contemporary. Sir Richard Attenborough introduced “Mahatma” the great soul to the West and the

world remains grateful to him. I grew up understanding Gandhi through others: till I discovered a deep wound he carried in his heart. Somewhere in the shadows

of this great man lived his son, roaming the streets of India like a beggar. Converting to Islam as a rebellion, reconverting to Hinduism as a penance and finally

drinking himself to death. Mahatma Gandhi could transform the soul of a nation but could not save the soul of his own son. The unfolding of a personal tragedy

against the racial hatred in South Africa and colonial humiliation in India moved me deeply. Finally my search to know the human side of Gandhi took me to South

Africa, to different parts of India, libraries, scholars and his immediate family members. I then decided to make a film about a principled father and an

unfortunate son. To me, Gandhi became a greater human being as he struggled personally, socially and politically. But always put his principles and quest for

human dignity above everything else.