Gandhi - The Movie

Today [July 14, 2006] the english movie Gandhi was telecasted in one of the local televisions in Bahrain [mbc 2].

The movie starts as on 30th January 1948, when Gandhi was shot.The next scene starts with the famous train journey in South Africa in the year 1893.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Gandhi - the father of a great nation in the world - The transformation was laid foundation in this historical journey.

When i saw this movie, i also remembered the story told to me when i was in South Africa for a short assignment.Even a decade before, the scenario in South Africa used to be like this.If there are 14 compartments in a train, only the last compartment will be reserved for the the natives of Africa. There will be thousands of people in a single compartment.The next three compartments will be reserved for the asians [the working community]. There will be hundreds of people in each compartment.The remaining ten compartments will be for the Europeans. And, surprisingly, there will be as few as 10 people for the entire 10 carriages.

I was also told that there will be certain location, where noone other than the white skinned people cannot even enter, leave alone staying there.

What makes Gandhi a great man? It is his principle and his guts to live by his principle no matter what happens.In one scene, he will invite the servant to have food along with the master. Gandhi's wife will refuse to serve to the servant and claim that he is an untouchable. She will question Gandhi, why is he forcing her. He will tell her that, you dont listen to me, but follow my principle with will. I hope this is what makes him the greatest leader.

In the same movie, he will also regret about the formation of the Congress Party and YES, the regret still continues...

BTW, in one of the blogs, someone was comparing Gandhi's "My Experiments with Truth" with SJ Surya's BF [Ah Aah] and Selvaraghavan's Pudupettai...Man, give me a break ! I feel that, even giving a response to such a blog is a great insult to an idolistic man like Mohandass Karamchand Gandhi.

...bright