Gandhi to Hitler is a movie that seems to have been made purely on a whim of the director / producer whose sole intent seems to have been to strike this off their bucket list. The line item would have said – “Must make movie which has Hitler and Gandhi in the title”. So technically since these 2 names are in the title, it would mean mission accomplished. That it has very little or almost nothing to do with Gandhi and loads to do with Hitler is a mere coincidence. In fact, the movie has more to do with Subhash Chandra Bose that with the father of the nation – and I am reminded of Alanis Morisette “Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think”?
Very rarely does one come across a movie that is as disjointed or aimless as Gandhi to Hitler. The premise of the movie is a few letters that Gandhi (Avijit Dutt) had written to the Fuhrer (Raghuvir Yadav) from 1939 to 1945 (with several chronological errors shown during the movie). However, in fact, the movie centres only around Hitler’s last days in his bunker facing imminent loss in World War II. It shows the degeneration of Adolf Hitler from a position of supreme command and one of immense power / respect / fear to that of a hyperactive, powerless, dimunitive and helpless man whose only support system is his mistress of several years – Eva Braun (Neha Dhupia). It shows how his closest aides and associates of the likes of Himmler, who desert him in the last days of the war thanks to the Fuhrer’s inability to accept defeat even when it is staring at him in the face. All these events lead to his alleged suicide because he would rather die than fall into the hands of the allied forces and be subject to humiliation. A story that most of us are familiar with if we paid any attention to history in school.
What gets to you is the complete disregard to any concept of movie making that is present in the world. As mentioned earlier, the first word that comes to mind is “Disjointed”. The movie wanders aimlessly and through the 2 hours subjects you to 3 severely confusing storylines none of which are done any justice to. Rakesh Ranjan Kumar is a first time director – a very fashionable concept of late – who flatters to deceive. Most disappointing is the worst performance ever delivered to date by most of the star cast led by Raghuvir Yadav who does nothing but make a mockery of himself. Neha Dhupia who showed signs of acting with Phas Gaye Re Obama comes crashing down like a lead ball and is back to square one. The only other person who had a reasonable role was Aman Verma in the role of a soldier in the Indian National Army who is leading a bunch of soldiers back home. Not one performance from the lead or the supporting cast is memorable even for a few seconds after you walk out of the hall.
Don’t waste your time or money even on a DVD unless you have way too much of either and more importantly unless u are a sucker for boring and bad movies who claim to be arty cinema but are basically a sham. 2 on 10 for this one. And I do think I am being really nice about it.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suw_gDL1tdc
Very rarely does one come across a movie that is as disjointed or aimless as Gandhi to Hitler. The premise of the movie is a few letters that Gandhi (Avijit Dutt) had written to the Fuhrer (Raghuvir Yadav) from 1939 to 1945 (with several chronological errors shown during the movie). However, in fact, the movie centres only around Hitler’s last days in his bunker facing imminent loss in World War II. It shows the degeneration of Adolf Hitler from a position of supreme command and one of immense power / respect / fear to that of a hyperactive, powerless, dimunitive and helpless man whose only support system is his mistress of several years – Eva Braun (Neha Dhupia). It shows how his closest aides and associates of the likes of Himmler, who desert him in the last days of the war thanks to the Fuhrer’s inability to accept defeat even when it is staring at him in the face. All these events lead to his alleged suicide because he would rather die than fall into the hands of the allied forces and be subject to humiliation. A story that most of us are familiar with if we paid any attention to history in school.
What gets to you is the complete disregard to any concept of movie making that is present in the world. As mentioned earlier, the first word that comes to mind is “Disjointed”. The movie wanders aimlessly and through the 2 hours subjects you to 3 severely confusing storylines none of which are done any justice to. Rakesh Ranjan Kumar is a first time director – a very fashionable concept of late – who flatters to deceive. Most disappointing is the worst performance ever delivered to date by most of the star cast led by Raghuvir Yadav who does nothing but make a mockery of himself. Neha Dhupia who showed signs of acting with Phas Gaye Re Obama comes crashing down like a lead ball and is back to square one. The only other person who had a reasonable role was Aman Verma in the role of a soldier in the Indian National Army who is leading a bunch of soldiers back home. Not one performance from the lead or the supporting cast is memorable even for a few seconds after you walk out of the hall.
Don’t waste your time or money even on a DVD unless you have way too much of either and more importantly unless u are a sucker for boring and bad movies who claim to be arty cinema but are basically a sham. 2 on 10 for this one. And I do think I am being really nice about it.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suw_gDL1tdc
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