The Man who Taught us the meaning of Life of Unity

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2005)

First I want to point out one thing,that is, Indians should be ashamed of themselves.I mean their very own people could not write or make a film as unforgettable and powerful as this one about a person who was more than a GOD to them.It took one very honest English filmmaker to produce an epic film about an Ordinary person just like us who went on to achieve some extraordinary and remarkable things.A man with no power whatsoever single handedly freed a nation,causing stir around the world.
The world need to know the significance of people like Oskar Schindler and Gandhi,what their quests were,what they wanted to achieve.Survival in the darkest hours of inhumanity.The will to do something that will change the way we think about one another.Schindler and Gandhi did that and showed that a single human being can make a difference and therefore prove that every race can coexist if we want.And for their effort these two historical figures should receive a NOBEL prize.
But do the world give a damn.I mean take India and Pakistan for example.Did Gandhis lesson and message taught these two nations?Of course not,they are at war all the time,hatred is present between them.No matter how hard he tried ,even in his last breath he only hoped for Unity,in the end it all came back to the same place.Inhumanity,discrimination,hatred,racism all these things occur every day in our lives and yet we learn nothing from our ancestors.Sorry for being pessimistic but I had to let it out.
Gandhi is one person who didn't believe in race or the difference in us.He believed in Love that could spread and that could be shared by everyone together as one.He was a form of Jesus,no matter how much people hated him he always showed his love in return.Like Jesus he did not use violence but he taught people not to use it.Attenborough succeeds in capturing the mans true spirit and Kingsley was the only person who could've done it.Not even an actual Indian could have portrayed Gandhi the way Kingsley did.He simply was a reincarnation of Gandhi.A remarkable achievement that will live on forever and hope people will understand its message.But Gandhi wasn't the only one who led to the freedom.It is unfair that he was widely considered the person who led India to freedom,in reality a lot people had their share.In the film Gandhi always referred to various races but he rarely refers to sikhs.Sikhs were the real heroes actually.They fought for their freedom by all means possible.Some used non-violent methods and some of course used violence.I'm not saying that they did the right thing to use violence but they should not have been forgotten.They were never once mentioned in the film since one of the scenes take place in Amritsar(the Massacre).Freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Subash Chandra Bose, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Udham Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rajguru, Sukhdev etc. were involved in great deal of work to achieve freedom.The film is inaccurate in its portrayal of the politics.Gandhi may have shown us that the means of achieving freedom without violence and taught us the meaning of equality ,which is what I'm interested in, but he still was a politician.He was the reason why the partition took place but it was his failing.He didn't wanted that and somehow the politicians drove him to their side and he became a corrupt politician too.Giving Indians false hope in the end about Unity and forgetting the real heroes of the Independence.Gandhi's fame was mainly due to the media and there was nothing he could do about it.The sikhs were forgotten for their effort and that is why there is still so much hatred among the people of India.Living in the same country they still have conflicts.They hate each others race.Nevertheless,Gandhi's ideal approach of equality was what fascinates me.He tried to bring every one together.He treated everyone equally and that is what makes him an Iconic figure.And Sir Attenborough really captures that well.
Indians made dozens of movies about Gandhi and not one of them were as epic as this one.In fact they were terrible and they think their movies are great.They should shut their Industry instead.