Gandhi To Hitler Movie
Release Date: July 29, 2011Star-Cast: Raghuveer Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Aman Verma, Lucky Vakharia, Nassar Abdulla, Avijit Dutt, Nikita Anand, Nalin SinghDirector: Rakesh Ranjan
Music Director: Arvind, Lyton
Producer: Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma
Genre: Biographical
Lyricist: Dr. Pallavi Mishra
Gandhi to Hitler, whether a dreaded Third Reich minister, a marauding Russian Red Army soldier, a trigger-happy French infantryman or a patriotic Azad Hind Fauj volunteer, is portrayed by an Indian actor.
What’s more, the film uses what looks suspiciously like the Garhwal Himalayas and the Punjab countryside as stand-ins for sundry European locations. Bollywood’s long-nurtured expansionist designs assume alarming proportions in this spectacularly daft account of the last months of Adolf Hitler’s life. For this film, India is the world.
The intentions are lofty enough, but Gandhi to Hitler has the feel of a Z-grade quickie destined to be quickly consigned to the dustbins of movie history. The concept is hare-brained and the execution ham-handed and that’s putting it mildly.
Taking off from two epistolary appeals that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi made to the Fuhrer during World War II, the film seeks to underscore the contrast between the Mahatma’s non-violent struggle against the British and the Nazi “an eye for an eye” philosophy. As if we didn’t know!
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