Director: Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
Cast: Raghubir Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Avijit Dutt, Nikita Anand, Nalin Singh
Sometimes a film is funny even though the makers never intended it to be. Take Gandhi to Hitler, which aims to bring out the stark contrast between Hitler, who used violence to change his world, and Gandhi, who used peace to change his. The bloopers are more noticeable than forgivable, the jingoism nauseatingly overwhelming and the execution painfully amateurish. In all that, a well-meaning film has become farcical and presumably unintentionally, hilariously watchable in the same vein as a Marx Brothers movie. The whole story seems to be set in some Himalayan resort or Punjab village, while all the characters are Indian, accent and all, wearing bad dye jobs or even-worse-fitting wigs. So there is a Russian Red Army recruit who happily invades anything he thinks he can, a French infantryman who shoots and then asks questions, a Third Reich minister with a startlingly dramatic amount of menace to his character and, of course, Hitler, all speaking Hindi with a patriotism convincing enough to make them converts to the Gandhi ethos, in words if not in deeds. The tale is told about the last days of Adolf Hitler (Yadav), lovingly accompanied and supported by the ravishing Eva Braun (Dhupia) and wavers between the Fuhrer’s bunker and the Mahatma’s various audiences, punctuated by documentary clips of the Allies attacking Nazi Germany as World War II comes to a tortuous end. Along the way, you wait, fingers crossed, for a song-and-dance sequence to relieve the tedium and the pain, but are subjected to more fervour of various kinds from both the Indians and the Germans – who were such passionate followers of Gandhi, did you know! We certainly did not. And we are left wondering why actors like Yadav and Dhupia, both capable of doing brilliant work, should be part of this turkey.
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