Analysis Of Making Of Mahatma Gandhi

“Gandhi’s sojourn in South Africa…lasted for some 21 years, with, some brief interludes in India. It constituted one of the most glorious episodes in human history, as ordinary men and women, with rudimentary learning, and scant material resources became morally energised to confront evil under Gandhi’s quite unprecedented leadership” Gandhi as we know now is a product of his experiments with truth in South Africa. The film Making of the Mahatma, portrays that Gandhi who was just a brown man struggling to formulate his ideologies. The man before he became the mahatma . The film is based on the book written by Fatima Meer and is directed by one of India`s most respected directors, Shyam Benagal. The movie was produced in South Africa and India as a collabarotiaon of National Film Development Corporation of India and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.2

Gandhi 1893-1914 edited by Fathima Meer, Justice Ismail Mohammed, the erstwhile Chief Justice of South Africa describes Gandhi`s arrival in Natal, South Africa as a divine event. He writes, “ celestial Leap when he entered the shore of Natal in May 1893.”1
The movie tries to capture this celestial leap from Gandhi to Baapu. According to the director, The film intentionally lacks the panoramic proportions and epic scale of Attenborough's "Gandhi." Benegal says, "This is a more intimate story. It is concerned with so much that had to change in Gandhi before he became the