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Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
Courtesy : Romuz Uddin
Just like the sacrificial beheading of john the Baptist by Judith, this violent spectacle deals with the predator who was assigned to assassinate Gandhi.
Hey Ram
Director : Kamal Haasan
Cast : Kamal Haasan, Shahrukh Khan,Rani Mukherjee,Hema Malini, Girish Karnad, Naseeruddin Shah,Om Puri, Atul Kulkarni,
Cinematography : Tirru
Music : Iaiyaraaja
Cast : Kamal Haasan, Shahrukh Khan,Rani Mukherjee,Hema Malini, Girish Karnad, Naseeruddin Shah,Om Puri, Atul Kulkarni,
Cinematography : Tirru
Music : Iaiyaraaja
The movie begins with the explosive Calcutta communal riots of 1946, which are graphically horrendous, the holocaust of Muslim mobs molesting Hindu women and Hindu extremists torching Muslim families alive in bonfires is captured in almost life-like images, they disturb but serve the purpose of establishing the seething hatred against Gandhi of the Hindu extremists who consider him a champion for the Muslim cause.
The fact Gandhi was only trying to stop pointless bloodshed is defined in a family debate brilliantly between Hema Malini and Kamal Hassan with divergent political ideologies yet able to comprehend the impending disaster.
Thus, the killing of Gandhi becomes an auspicious ritual unlike the Hindu and Muslim mobs pillaging and killing at random.
The fact Gandhi was only trying to stop pointless bloodshed is defined in a family debate brilliantly between Hema Malini and Kamal Hassan with divergent political ideologies yet able to comprehend the impending disaster.
Thus, the killing of Gandhi becomes an auspicious ritual unlike the Hindu and Muslim mobs pillaging and killing at random.
The planned killing-almost euphemistic, the mortified mobs, the political intrigues and the personal suffering of the common Indian, is a trivial whim only, the crucial issue is the perception of modifying the future in the typically mundane political aspirations of men who perceive themselves as idealistic and genuinely want to redeem the world of injustice, how these two polar concepts clash and culminate forms the concept of this political thriller set in colonial India.
One world vanishing before your eyes is virtual and the replacement is striving to breathe in the stench of blood and belching fire in a purgatory, this transition is the theme of this ambitious venture.
One world vanishing before your eyes is virtual and the replacement is striving to breathe in the stench of blood and belching fire in a purgatory, this transition is the theme of this ambitious venture.
Kamal Hassan is amazing and Rani Mukherjee as his consort, who is brutally massacred is superb, but the final applause goes to the technical skills-the sound recorded directly without being re-edited to give the movie its stark, brutal audio-visual splendour, the experiment truly makes