Today is Jan 26th and India is celebrating the Republic day.
I was watching TV and noticed an interesting thing about the phenomenon of Mahatama Gandhi.
Let us take two scenario:
Scene 1:DD1
Movie:Gandhi
This was all about his come back to India and how became a leader of the masses.
Scene 2:SONY MAX
Movie: Cheeni Kam
Paresh Rawal who has acted as father of Tabu, the heroine , imitates the principles of Gandhi for wrong reasons.He likes cricket, eats meat and chicken and still a Gandhian.He don't want his daughter to marry the 64 year old Amitabh.So he goes on a fasting.
The acting of Paresh is superb as it truly represents the bunch of imitators of Gandhiji.
For me it was a nice contradiction of real Gandhi in DD1 and his imitators in post independence India , in Sony Max.
One can see both the idealism of Gandhi and imitation of his ideology on the chota screen.Whereas in reality one can show only the imitation of Gandhi on national holidays, school days and fancy dress competitions.
Mera Bharath Mahan!
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