Prabuddha Jivan 2013 Year 61 Ank 01 to 12

SR No.: 525998
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dhanvant Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 540
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 18 MB

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PRABUDHHA JIVAN GANDHI SMRUTI CHINTAN SPECIAL
JANUARY 2013
GANDHI MY FATHER, A CREATION IN CONFLICT
Feroz Abbas Khan
(Author is a young creative director of film and drama. Here he narrates the conflicts about the son and father relation in this great movie. ]
Gandhi, My Father, is a result of a deep personal The truth had to be told, but let us be very clear, anguish.
Harilal's tragedy cannot be a yardstick to measure the I have often questioned my motives in making this greatness of the 'Mahatma'. film. Am I to use the private pain of a very public family Infact, it is a reminder, that all freedom struggle entail to feed the voyueristic appetite of an entertainment personal, social and political sacrifices, often the hungry audience?
personal is most painful. He was caught at the wrong Was Mahatma Gandhi a father who failed or a time in history with a difficult surname relationship that failed? What moral credentials do I Harilal's story is a desperate scream for love. He have to even attempt passing a judgement on an adored his father, he loved his father and the ultimate extraordinary man who would have been God, if he irony of love is that the one you love the most you hurt wasn't a human being.
the most! I abandoned the project several times. It was a Film-making travels three important stages to burden that my feeble conscience could not realisation. handle.But, a voice kept murmuring, I must find a way.
Write, Shoot, Release. Harilal Gandhi was intelligent, handsome, romantic,
I would be agonising at every stage, trying to give a strong-willed, fiery, beloved husband, doting narrative structure and coherence to a story in which father... The Chhota (young) Gandhi of South Africa the truth has to be spoken without fear and yet the was to be the natural heir to his revolutionary father Greater idea of "GANDHI" is never sacrificed. He challenged the cruel and racist regime in South
Lets look at each stage: Africa, courted arrest. In prison, he became the first passive resister to use fasting as a weapon for justice.
WRITE At 19 years of age, he was the star performer!
It is relatively simple to tell stories about heroes and Yet, five months after Mahatma Gandhi's death, he villians.Harilal the wronged son and Mahatma Gandhi was picked up, a beggar on the street in Bombay, the uncaring father period. brought to a hospital, where he died shortly, unknown, Eulogies with platitudes and denigration with a unsung. An irony and destiny that will remain a mystery. venom are some other models that can be used to deal
Unscrupulous businessman used his "Gandhi' with Gandhi. Polarised politics uses them with serious surname as a dependable "Brand" to defraud the damage to the truth. unsuspecting and gullible investors. Muslim fanatics Every film writer or pundit will advise you that we attempted to use his conversion to Islam as a weapon need a protagonist who is locked in conflict with the to damage the inconvenient Gandhi, to facilitate a antagonist and wins. confrontation with the Hindu fanatics in a dance of Can the complexity of a relationship between a mutual annihilation. A young widower, he took to principled father and an aspiring son driven by the alcohol, debauchery, public fury against his father, social and political turmoil of its time be reduced to a extreme poverty and terminal illness.
binary? Harilal Gandhi's life is a nightmare, which Indian For me, the shades between the extremes of black history is more comfortable in denial. The combustible and white is the space where truth resides. nature of his character can create havoc to the thought
These are real people documented with facts. Their and idea i.e.'Gandhi'.
struggle is life instructive. We could reduce it to petty