Gandhi, My Father

Film: Gandhi, My Father

Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan. It was produced by Anil Kapoor.

The film stars Darshan Jariwala, Akshaye Khanna, Bhumika Chawla, and Shefali Shah.

==GANDHI KA NAAM BADNAM NA KARO==

Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja

Rating – ONE STAR

If you had any expectations from this movie, forget them and just watch Richard Attenborough's version of Gandhiagain, as Mr. Kapoor and Feroz Abbas Khan are entirely lost as to how to interpret one of the few non-controversial figures from the Indian subcontinent.

The movie kicks off with a dying Harilal being admitted to a state hospital, as no one believes ke he is Gandhi-ji's son, and he definitely didn't deserve to be either. My sympathies are with Mr. Gandhi for being blessed with an elder son who was a bigger idiot and nincompoop than the bumbling robot Bumblebee in Transformers, and that's an understatement, as Bumblebee is lovable but Harilal is detestable. But he is portrayed as being a poor little sacrificial lamb in this absolutely disgusting movie.

The movie is embellished with some ludicrous sequences where Akshaye Khanna overacts to the level of becoming a black spot on his father Vinod Khanna's good name, just as Harilal was for Gandhiji. For as far as I know, Vinod Khanna never overacted in any movie I have seen so far, but then the flawed script and characterisation rule the entire duration of two hours, which I found really hard to sit through. The caption "short and sweet" doesn't apply to this monstrosity.

We are shown a Gandhi who takes naked showers with his three sons while his wife peeks on them, and then has to disown his eldest son as he marries without his...