Banner: Aagman Films Pvt Ltd
Producer: Sudhir Jain & Pratap Singh Yadav
Director: Sanoj Mishra
Star Cast: Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra, Anupam Shyam, Mukesh Tiwari, Dolly Chawla, Meghna Haldar & Rishi Bhutani
Music: Sahil Rayyan & Shivam Pathak
What’s gone wrong on the current directorial scenario front?. As someone tries to showcase the tragedy of the Indira Gandhi assassination while someone is trying to push the Gandhian idealogy deep down the throat of everyone, especially the wrong doers of the nation. But director Sanoj Mishra with his directorial offering Gandhigiri crosses all the patriotic limits by mixing sexual escapades of the goons with the Gandhian philosophy and makes a complete mish mash of it. what’s the logic Mr. Sanoj Mishra?
The scripted scenario of Gandhigiri kicks off with an NRI from dependable Mauritius lamenting for that “greatest nation of all”, Bharat, and particularly that “greatest soul of all”, Gandhi, at a Pravasi Bharatiya Divas meet, no less. In no time at all, he is back for good to a fictional native village in a very real “Rae Bareli”. Here the men are thugs, women rapacious, sadhus fraud, and politicians divided by caste & united in bloodlust. All it takes is throwing the Mahatma in the midst, a Gandhi for every occasion, from reforming criminals to helping accident victims on the road, while moving around only & only in an Ambassador. The town, barring a reliably snarling Brahmin leader, is ever so grateful for the NRI benevolence. The aforementioned NRI, with the weighty name of Rai Bahadur Singh (Om Puri), invites a crude assortment of some of the above louts to live in his own haveli. Their criminal goings-on don’t appear to bother the Gandhian Rai Bahadur. On the contrary, even as they plot, Rai Bahadur extends his generosity to opening a “global school”. That school appears & disappears in a flash, but not without offering an unforgettable image of adults dancing draped in Tricolour hues. 2 of the most homely of those adults are in hush-hush love, interspersed with some very loud songs. Both are “medical students”, but in good, old UP, that never did mean attending classes.
Sorry to add but Gandhigiri is absurd, attrocious and what not? It mainly abounds in sex, in innuendoes, talk, gestures, in the back of vans offering a sexual cure, and down the cleavage of a woman who convinces our Rai Bahadur of her destituteness while the mascara, lipstick & hair highlights are still in place. So what was Mr. Sanoj Mishra thinking while directing Gandhigiri or did he leave his directorial brains behind in his own hometown, UP?
No point in discussing about the performance of all the actors especially the veterans. The million dollar question raising its head time & again in one’s mind is, first of all why does Gandhigiri have stalwarts like Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra, Anupam Shyam & Mukesh Tiwari? And above all why does Gandhigiri offers a special thanks to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal? Maybe, some questions are better left unasked.
Tail Piece: Gandhigiri is a sheer waste of time, money, energy & patriotic feelings one still has for one’s nation.
