Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara

2005 • 99 minutes

About this movie

Widowed Uttam Chaudhary lives a comfortable lifestyle with his college-going son, Karan, a daughter, Trisha, who is in love with a South-Indian youth named Ashish Reddy, and an elder son who is married and works in the United States, through whose income the Chaudharys live on.

Uttam is a Lecturer, but when he starts getting old, becoming forgetful, he is asked to retire. He is very close to Trisha, who looks after him. The first major episode Trisha's experiences in her father when he announces that he is getting ready to go to work and asks for his wife to bring him breakfast. Thereafter, things get worse, especially when Ashish's parents come to meet the Chaudharys. It is here that Uttam babbles on inexplicably about being responsible for killing Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Trisha must now find out if her dad was in any way responsible for Gandhi's death, and what exactly triggered his long-suppressed memory in her dad's mind...

Based on nine-time National Award winner Jahnu Barua's unusual script, the film carries the audience to an unchartered territory, where they have never truly ventured before - the human brain.

Ratings and reviews

Yet another remarkable film by Jhanu Barua, the acclaimed Assamese director in film circles. Anupam Kher can be proud of his excellent characterization of a retired professor of Hindi literature getting into Alzheimer's disease.

The humour, the score, the acting and the story, all come together to make this wonderfully understated film. Yet this movie shows so much depth and understanding of human nature that it’s able to elicit from the viewer, genuine regard for its characters.

Talented director Jahnu Barua's astonishing film, tells the story of a reputed retired professor suffering from dementia and the severe toll it takes on his family, especially his daughter. A good watch!