Hey Ram

It is very difficult to make a period film, especially when it has to show some hindu-muslim riots. It is even more difficult in India to make a movie against of M.K.Gandhi . But for our Kamal Hasan nothing is difficult. He is true face of Indian cinema, and has produced so many classics.

Was this movie really against of Gandhi… yes it was!!!

Sir Kamal Hasan never claimed that it is not but he never claimed that it is against of him.

Movie started with one 89 year old grand pa who is some where in life and death, and on his way to hospital. But because of some riots between hindu-muslim, his ambulance had to stop in between its way. Another master piece of Kamal sir, he used 6^th December in his movie with a motive. It is the thing which only few film makers could show. Then there started a real movie in flashback.

A story of south Indian Brahmin who was in archeologist department of India and working on Mohan jo daro site. He had his best friend one Muslim guy (played naturally good by Sharukh Khan) who was his colleague. Now because of hindu-muslim riots and partition problem, Saket ram (Kamal Hasan) moved back to Bengal to meet his wife (played by Rani Mukharjee)…

Muslims mobs killed his wife after raping her and it turned saket ram into a fanatic hindu, who started killing Muslims with his pistol. He met to one Hindu leader (Atul Kukarni) according to whom Gandhi was the main problem of every problem of India at that time.

And here parents of Saket Ram forced him to marry once again to one south Indian girl (played by Vasundhra Das). Now Hindu leader called him up to Maharashtra for planning to kill Gandhi, they even practiced with guns. But in one accident Hindu leader lost his life and now the killing of Gandhi was in the hand of Saket Ram only. He moved to Delhi leaving his wife with her parents.

In Delhi another Hindu group guided by Nathuram Godse was planning the same for Gandhi. But in between of Saket trials he met to his old Muslim buddy who saved his life from muslim mobs. This muslim guy was the follower of Gandhi now and tried to convince Saket about the brotherhood of hindu-muslim once again. In the riots Sharukh lost his life and Saket once again started thinking in brotherhood. He went to Gandhi with his father-in-law to meet him on D-day. That conversation with Gandhi forced him to think about his sins and he decided to give his weapon to Gandhi and to tell him about his previous planning of assassination… but Nathuram came and killed Gandhi… and in the present of movie Saket ram lost his life.

This movie was too much controversial right from its beginning to its end. Whether it’s kissing scenes in movies or debate on “Hey Ram” words (final words spoken by Gandhi).

But Kamal Hasan chooses best and did what a best director could do. Unlike any other movie based on life of Gandhi this movie showed him as villain in starting and ends up with making him hero once again.

Few scenes were masterpiece in movie. For example a scene of blind little muslim girl searching of her parents in night, Sharukh’s dialogue in the end, Saket Ram searching for muslims.. these all were well directed.

Finally my long time dream of watching this movie ended on yesterday after long 7 years.

And I know it is very difficult to write about 7 year old movie because everyone has his/her mind setup for such movies.

Hey ram