Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi’s ideologies have been part of many Bollywood films. His ideas of non-violence and religious peace has inspired many filmmakers. He has been depicted totally different ways in movies. One film shows the freedom fighter as a father and a family man while there is other where he was seen giving suggestions to a person like a friend. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, have a look at some of the films based on his ideologies.
Lage Raho Munnabhai
This film needs no introduction. The Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial venture featured actor Sanjay Dutt in the lead. In the film the actor suffers from an illness and start seeing Gandhiji. The latter helped him to solve problems with Gandhigiri. The movie was a big box office success.
Gandhi My Father
The 2007 film deals with relationship between father and son. It showed the freedom fighter as a father and a family man. The film was based on Gandhiji’s son Harilal Gandhi's biography, Harilal Gandhi: A Life.
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
The film is about an Alzheimers-stricken person played by veteran actor Anupam Kher, who thinks that he has killed the Father of Nation. Actress Urmila Matondkar played the role of Anupam’s daughter in the film.
Sardar
The 1993 film is a biographical epic on Sardar Vallabhai Patel and shows how Mahatma Gandhi’s speech in Ahmedabad inspired Vallabhai to participate in a freedom struggle.
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