

Another History Rises to the Surface: 'Hey Ram': Melodrama in the Age of Digital Simulation. Journal of Moving Image.1 (Autumn) retrieved March 11, 2013. Gandhian Nationalism and Melodrama in the 30s Telugu Cinema. New Scholarly Study of the Contemporary Biopic. Mahatma Gandhi Seen Through His Autobiography. There something about Gandhi that always. I had been watching the short trailers of Gandhi, My Father in awe.
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Indian Cinematograph Committee (1927), quoted in Rama Ramanathan, ‘The Theatre’s (In) Ability to Resist Censorship’, e-mail from newsletter, (10 August 2005). Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review.72 (286). Attenborough's Truth: The Politics of Gandhi. Accessed on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, The Case of the Missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi Cinema. “I do want to live!”: Female Voices, Male Discourse and Hollywood Biopics. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.īingham, D.(1999). 68-85.Ĭollected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (n.d). Product Symbolism of Gandhi and Its Connection with Indian Mythology. For all the above critique, Gandhi’s autobiography- The Story of My Experiments with Truth -has been taken as a base referentīalaram, S. Further the study would elaborate how different personal and social events in Gandhi’s life are weaved together by these directors to bring out the character of Bapu or Mahatma from Gandhi. Using Bingham’s (2010) discursive analysis on biopic films, the study seeks to show how Gandhi is perceived and depicted through the lenses of these three eminent directors vis-à-vis others from the point of intertextuality both ideologically and politically. Grounded in the theory of inter-textuality through moving image method, the present study is a comparative analysis of examining the portrayal of Gandhi among the first category of three films -Gandhi (1982- English) by Richard Attenborough, The Making of the Mahatma (1996) by Shyam Benegal and Gandhi, My Father (2007) by Feroz Abbas Khan with crisscross critiquing of the portrayal of Gandhi in the second category of films. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000), Hey Ram (2000), Lage Raho Munnabhai, (2006) etc. The first category of the films include three broad films- Gandhi (1982), The Making of the Mahatma (1996) and Gandhi My Father (2007) and the other category of the films include Nine Hours to Rama (1963- English), Jinnah (1998- English), Sardar (1993), Dr. involving his ideas, ideals and views either explicitly or implicitly. revolving around his life, percept and practice as one category and ii. The portrayal of Gandhi in different films can be grouped into two broad categories: i. Gandhian ethos, life and teachings are frequently represented in varied ways in different films. For over half a century Gandhi has been one of the favored characters of a number of films – Nine hours to Rama (1963) to Gandhi, My Father (2007).
