wat an exhaustive analysis, awesome to the core.
even minute details have been projected clearly.
u deserve an appalause.
it took me 3 hrs to complete the reading.
keep writing-deepak

I always felt that Kamal should stop acting as the characters he can depict are narrowing owing to his age. And he should be into directing, with many stories to be told in myriad ways he could present. It is right time as well with such good actors we have at present.

Instead of waiting for directors to come up with stories for him, he could direct a film a year with good team around.

Thanks for the excellent work.

1. I don’t see any.
2. Negligible.
3. You and me.
4. He didn’t hate people by virtue of their beliefs.

Values are in fact based on Facts. But the day when Values go the reverse way and try to enforce their way on Facts and try to pervert Facts that is the day when the those values (Religion) should be discarded. And I am talking of Islam.

And Human being IS a Beast. Otherwise he is a chlorophyll-producing Plant. So there’s no denying that fact and the fact that violence is an integral part of Homo Sapiens.

Anyway, debates aside, I never wanted to prove myself to be an expert at the cost of sacrificing facts. So anyway thanks from the bottom of my heart for exposing me to the Greatness of the Man, MKG.

I’m no avid history-reader because it never was in my career path.

Even if you watched this movie you will find out that in fact Kamal Haasan’s character ACKNOWLEDGES the greatness of MKG at the end of the movie. In fact his own character is the one that Mr. Haasan present itself as the antagonist at the climax.

I meant to connect MKG to the events occuring ONLY in India. I mean any man who is said to have so much heavy impact on Indian Independence definitely has to have had an impact on the ugly turn of events in today’s India. Intentionally or unintentionally.

Just some questions for the sake of knowledge:

1. What is your opinion about the so-called Gandhians (Congress or non-Congress), then and even today? What do you think about the extent to which they practice what they preach?

2. What is the actual impact of MKG on today’s India?

3. Who do you think is responsible for all the ugly turn of events related to terrorism in India SINCE independence. Somebody has to be responsible for it, right?

4. What was MKG’s attitude towards Islam?

Your para 1.Demonisation and deification are two sides of the same coin, equally nonsensical. MKG remarked that the moment he became an object of worship, he would be finished.

Your para2Martin Luther King Jr, Aung San Suu Ky, and Mandela are three avowed Gandhians who got the Nobel Prize, if such be your yardstick, not to speak of many undeserving cases who won it too.

Your para3
” he tried to please ALL people ALL the time”…he was notorious for listening to his own inner convictions at the cost of displeasing the entire congress. The entire Congress was shocked when he suddenly called of the Non Co-operation Movement in 1921 after the Chauri Chaura incident.

“stone age religion” Which religion are you referring to and what jet-age religion are you comparing it to, lest it be the law of the jungle, or the survival of the fittest, or Darwinism, which is sound science, but not religion. Science deals with facts, religion with values.

“Bhai, Jisko jaana hai jao, jisko rehna hai raho.” From where did you pick up this inane quotation. It is neither Gandhi’s firm tone nor his wa of thinking. I believe it is from the much lauded film under discussion. It’s helplessness and resigned tone is the very antithesis of MKG and indicates the shameful extent of distortion of the historical well recorded accounts.

“we wouldn’t have faced the major terror issues we are facing” So the poor chap is to be blamed for 9/11 too.

“Even in the courts do they attach the title ‘Mr.’ to every one involved in the case. ” No doubt even one’s father’s assassin has to be addressed with civility and you get full marks on that account.

Obviously. If Mr. Gandhi has been hyped up and credited enough to have achieved the whole of Indian Freedom struggle all by himself and if nobody else mattered…”Dey dee humey azaadi bina khadag bina dhaal,…” the he ALONE should be held responsible for all the wrongs done to India till today since the last 60 years or so.

And how can you guarantee that the followers of Gandhi then (AND TODAY) were as honest as Mr. Gandhi himself??? Can you ?? NO. Or else being a Gandhian would have been a sure-shot formula for winning a Nobel Peace prize, isn’t it?

And that’s the only reason I said: The ****ONLY**** 2 faults that I find in Mr. Gandhi is that: 1. he tried to please ALL people ALL the time (including his followers, The Congress, The Opposition and that Stone-Age religion). 2. He should have allowed the followers of that Stone-Age religion (which has been causing and will always keep causing havoc all the time) to leave India while they were doing so in 1946 and not just said: “Bhai, Jisko jaana hai jao, jisko rehna hai raho.” ACTUALLY ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS KEEP HIS MOUTH TIGHT SHUT THEN AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME. And we wouldn’t have faced the major terror issues we are facing AT LEAST in India. Or my friend wouldn’t have died in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings (I missed the train by only about say half an hour.) ***I HOPE YOU UNDERSTOOD WHAT I’M ACTUALLY POINTING OUT TO***.

Of course I agree with you on most points that Mr. Gandhi was himself a great man no doubt. But to say that he was God, as innocent as a lamb and had no blood on his hands and achieved freedom ONE-HANDED is a bit stretching it a too far. Especially when one cannot guarantee of any man sitting just next to Mr. Gandhi and calling himself a Gandhian.

Even in the courts do they attach the title ‘Mr.’ to every one involved in the case. Irrespective of whether they are victims or accused, proven guilty or not.