Author: Rajit Kapur
Pallavi Joshi/Keith Stevenson
Director/Composer/Na: Shyam Benegal/Vanraj Bhatia
Publisher: Ultra
Year: 2007
Language: Hindi
Pages: NA
ISBN/UPC (if available): DVD U-512
Description
IT ALL BEGAN IN SOUTH AFRICA A HUNDRED YEARS AGO…
M.K. Gandhi left India for South Africa in April 1893. He went there on a purely professional visit and had no ideas of previous history of the Indian emigrants. But during the very first year he was a witness to and the victim of unjust humiliation and racist hatred. The political and social repression of all Indians in South Africa, and especially the desperate condition of those who went as labourers on a system equivalent to legalized slavery, had made a deep and lasting impression on Gandhi.
As events developed, Gandhi had no-option but to plunge into a long drawn-out struggle against injustice. He lead the great Satyagraha Struggle which closed after eight years (1606-1914). The term Satyagraha – a war without violence was invented and employed by Gandhi, first in South Africa.
He turned to India not as M.K. Gandhi but Mahatma, ‘great soul’ – the man who was to free his country from foreign rule without firing a shot.
The Making of the Mahatma is M.K. Gandhi’s early story of experiments with truth, which gave to mankind a new weapon of liberty, the most civilized and humane. The process of transformation from Gandhi, the man to Gandhi, the Mahatma is as exciting as soul searching and that is what ‘The Making of the Mahatma’ is all about.
Winner of NATIONAL AWARD: Best Actor
Starring:
Rajit Kapur, Pallavi Joshi, Keith Stevenson, Paul Salbolepszy,
Himan Devnarain.
Directed by: Shyam Benegal
Music by: Vanraj Bhatia
Presented by:
NFDC (Indian) & S.A.B.C (South Africa)