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Hey Ram Movie Analysis

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The light has gone out… Analyzing the movies based on the assassination of Gandhi. “I have not hurt anybody nor do I consider anybody to be my enemy, I can’t understand why there are so many attempts on my life. Yesterday’s attempt on my life has failed. I will not die just yet; I aim to live till the age of 125.” Gandhiji is quoted saying these words after the fourth attempt on his life. Before getting shot in the chest three times with Godse`s Italian baretta pistol, Gandhi reportedly survived a least 5 attempts to assassinate him1. This important aspect of him, the end of the father of the nation, also got interpreted on celluloid. Hey Ram, directed by Kamal Hassan and Nine Hours to Rama, by Mark Robson are the two movies which are analysed this last chapter. Hey Ram presents the protagonist, Sanket Ram and links his life which got torn apart due to the communal hysteria in the 1940s to the murder of Gandhi. The protagonist as the story progress is made to believe that Gandhi is the reason for his loses during the riots and is talked into plotting a conspiracy to assassinate of Gandhi. In the beginning of the movie, the friendship of Sanket and his Muslim friend, who hails from balochistan, present day Pakistan, is depicted. As the movie progresses the duo is shown as sharing secular principles and both of them are evidently against the …show more content…

Although the movie gives the assassin Godse , a great deal of attention, they have "humanized" him to nothing. Everyone knows that fanatics are people, too. What may be interesting about them are their beliefs. Of Godse's, we learn no more than that he considers "appeasement" dangerous, that he is "reactionary," and that he does not consider Gandhi a saint. He learns better, of course. The film ends with no indication of the fact that Godse was treated by the state with the traditional

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