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DVD ~ Akshaye Khanna
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  • Actors: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Bhumika Chawla, Shefali Shah
  • Directors: Feroz Khan
  • Format: PAL
  • Language Hindi
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Eros
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Oct 2007
  • Run Time: 135 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000VUVG48
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,203 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Based on the true story of Mahatma Ghandi's troubled son Harilal, who rebelled against his father's idealistic priciples and sought a life free from the overpowering burden of being his son. Told from both sides, this film explores a complex relationship that has never been fully explored before.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid due to incomplete, Pidgin English subtitles, 20 Feb 2008
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I have read several biographies of Gandhi and seen the famous movie by Richard Attenborough, so I was looking forward to seeing this movie about his troubled relationship with one of his sons. Unfortunately, I could not watch the movie because I don't understand Hindi and the English subtitles are missing(!) from much of the movie. It appears that the people employed to do the subtitles did an incomplete job. I estimate that at least 20 minutes of the movie does not have subtitles.

Even in the parts of the movie with subtitles, the English translation is of such poor quality that it is quite difficult to understand. For example, at one point in the movie, Gandhi says that if his son gets married without his permission then "as I father I will forgot him". Presumably, the translation should be "I will disown him". This type of poor quality translation makes it difficult to understand the subtitles.

If you speak Hindi then the incomplete pidgin English subtitles will not be a concern to you and you may enjoy the movie. However, if, like me, you don't speak Hindi then you should avoid this DVD.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A principled, revered man and a son with human failings , 14 Feb 2008
The folly of parents expecting their children to follow their ideas, principles or dreams is delicately handled in this revelatory biopic of the troubled relationship between the revered, saintly father of the Indian nation and a son with human failings. Eldest son Harilal ends up a homeless, sick vagabond, and as he lays dying in a hospital, the film flashes back over a life in the shadow of his father Mahatma Gandhi. As the son tries to find his own place in the world, the world undergoes colossal changes sparked by his own father's central role in the Indian independence struggle.

Gandhi is shown comfortably reconciling the early part of his life as a barrister in South Africa, every bit the Indian gentleman, to the latter part: a dhoti clad pacifist freedom fighter where he applied the advocacy skills learnt in the world of the colonial master to India's later struggle. Harilal simply did not have the resilience to withstand such internal conflicts, and combined with other weaknesses this led to a wretched life of self loathing and destruction. At every twist and turn of their relationship, as the son veers between embracing his father's movement and struggling with his own demons, the film cleverly portrays a sense of doom and inevitability about the outcome. For Gandhi it seems, the self awareness he developed through extensive meditation, prayer and introspection did not extend to an understanding of what he was doing to his son.
The even handed treatment in the film, seems to have triggered developments in the real life descendants of Gandhi. His great granddaughter (Harilal's grand daughter), was reported in the BBC as having scattered some of Gandhi's remaining ashes. This was in recompense perhaps, for the fact her grandfather Harilal did not appear at Gandhi's cremation to light the funeral pyre, a rite that tradition dicates should have been performed by him as eldest son. But he was by then a lost soul, his existence all but forgotten by the public after the jubilation of independence; in any case had wholly rejected his parents by then.

With cooperation from some of Gandhi's descendants, here is revealed the private turmoil and pain behind this revered hero.
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