“Dear Bapu, in your laboratory of experiments, I am the one truth that has gone wrong”-Harilal The father of the nation could not become a father of his won son. The very tagline of ‘Gandhi, My Father’, My Father picks in lot of punch.

15th August 1947: when the whole Country rejoiced at their newfound independence, one Indian was more interested in the sweets that were being distributed and not the flags with them.

That was the “tryst with destiny” of Harilal Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a street-side beggar by the time Jawharlal Nehru was announcing India’s arrival to the world.

A montage of stunning images, right from the birth of Harilal to his death, lays bare the anatomy of the film. As Harilal tells his father: “dear Bapu, in your laboratory of experiments, I am the one truth that has gone wrong”.

As the father-son rivalry is not very different from Ramesh Sippy’s ‘Shakti’ but ‘Gandhi…’ is the historical backdrop, which turns everything upside down.


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