Mahatma Vs. Gandhi

Finally i am back to my blog, it took me these many days to write a new post since i was out of ideas and inspirations.This might be due to the fact that i churned out too many posts in succession and drained myself of ideas.I must have realized that i am a person of limited abilities and the rate at which i was pulling the buckets would soon leave my brain's well dry.Anyways what brings me back here is still not an idea but a movie.Actually since there are not a lot of ways in which i can kill time i went to watch this movie called "Mahatma My Father" with my friends.

The film is based on a popular play called Mahatma Vs Gandhi and explores the torment relationship between Gandhi and his eldest son Harilal.It saw some good performances by Akshaye khanna as Harilal and Darshan Jariwala as Gandhi,it also boasts of one of the best cinematography of indian cinema by successfully recreating the pre-independence era.But it seems as though the editor slept on his desk while editing the movie.Anyways i am not here for a critical review of the flick but something else.

When you get to know that Gandhi had a loser son who disobeyed his father and more or less became a subject of humiliation for his father you tend to hate him.But his reasons for being so were well depicted in the movie.I am taking no sides but both the father-son duo was expecting too much from each other.what i was able to make out of the movie is that Gandhi expected his son to follow the same path to glory which he had himself taken.Gandhi was too blind to realize two things.Firstly that not everyone can become a Mahatma.Secondly, that his was not the only path to glory.Every person should set his own goals and work to achieve them in his own way and not copying someone else.Harilal on the other hand was a loser who wanted to be spoon-fed by his father.He was a parasite who always blamed his father for his failure.And when everything failed he tried using his surname to con people off their money.

Gandhi was a successful man but a miserable father.History have seen a lot of examples like this.Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay is an example which cannot be erased from public memory.Sanjay became the cause for his mother's disgrace at the time of emergency.Sanjay was an idealist but a dictator who used his mother's powers for his own good.Some people even went to the extent of saying that he used to blackmail his mother and his mother retaliated back by plotting his murder.whatever it might be we cannot forget the images of Sanjay's funeral where rock solid Indira donned her dark glasses to hide her emotions from the public.

I believe this kind of torment relationship is not restricted to famous people but can happen to anyone.The main reason being disrespect between the two generations for each other.Both of the generations does not understand the others point of view and pay no respect to it either.So to make the world a better place to live the two generations must be respecting each other's thoughts.
Regards,

khukii