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International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research, 2018
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GANDHI AND CINEMA: AN ASSOCIATION RE-EXAMINED
Kalindi College Yearly Academic Journal 2017 (ISSN: 2348-9014), 2017
This research paper attempts to focus on how Gandhi and Cinema together contributed towards the birth of a nation. Both worked individually towards uniting the country by infusing nationalist fervour. It further explores the relationship between Gandhi and Cinema to understand how did they impact each other? Cinema as a tool not only proved to be an inspirational agent but also contributed towards strengthening the cause for independence. But, somehow, Gandhi never gave the recognition it deserved as he never preferred watching cinema. Despite being averse to it, cinema always portrayed Gandhi as an idealist and a national hero whose presence in cinema could alone validate its existence and acceptance in the society. Indian cinema, thus, always stood for uniting the nation and its people by spreading the aura of Mahatma. Undoubtedly, cinema played a pivotal role in carrying his legacy and philosophy which has permeated into our very thoughts and act even today.
The Transition of Gandhism to ‘Gandhigiri’ in Visual Narration: A Study of Gandhi and Lage Raho
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In the year of sesquicentennial celebration of Gandhi’s birth anniversary the researcher through this paper proposes to study the depiction of Gandhi and his teachings as portrayed in the visual narrations. Even though Gandhi is said to have watched just two films in his lifetime, but even decades after this death in the year 1948 many filmmakers are still showing great interest in Gandhi and Gandhism to build popular visual narratives. Films have been critical in their nature and approach towards Gandhi, his life and his teachings. While some filmmakers through their works have criticized the established historical information on Gandhi, some of them attempted celebrate and romanticize Gandhism in an informative way. Richard Attenborough in his 1982 release titled ‘Gandhi’ presents the freedom fighter as national figure who agitated against the powerful British with his unparallel weapon of Ahimsa and Satyagraha to attain freedom for India. Rajkumar Hirani in his 2006 release Lage ...
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For over half a century Gandhi has been one of the favored characters of a number of films – Nine hours to Rama (1963) to Gandhi, My Father (2007). Gandhian ethos, life and teachings are frequently represented in varied ways in different films. The portrayal of Gandhi in different films can be grouped into two broad categories: i. revolving around his life, percept and practice as one category and ii. involving his ideas, ideals and views either explicitly or implicitly. The first category of the films include three broad films—Gandhi (1982), The Making of the Mahatma (1996) and Gandhi My Father (2007) and the other category of the films include Nine Hours to Rama (1963- English), Jinnah (1998- English), Sardar (1993), Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000), Hey Ram (2000), Lage Raho Munnabhai, (2006) etc. Grounded in the theory of inter-textuality through moving image method, the present study is a comparative analysis of examining the portrayal of Gandhi among the first category of three ...
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the cambridge companion to GANDHI Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy -encapsulated in works such as Hind Swaraj -as well as the example of his life and politics serve as an inspiration to human rights and peace movements, political activists, and students in classroom discussions throughout the world. This book, comprising essays by renowned experts in the fields of Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi's extraordinary story. The first part of the book, the biography, explores his transformation from a smalltown lawyer during his early life in South Africa into a skilled political activist and leader of civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted to Gandhi's key writings and his thinking on a broad range of topics, including religion, conflict, politics, and social relations. The final part reflects on Gandhi's image -how he has been portrayed in literature and film -and on his legacy in India, the West, and beyond.
Gandhi in India’s Literary and Cultural Imagination, 2022
This chapter brings together an assemblage of perspectives exploring cinematic memories premised on the enunciations of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) and Gandhian values in post-independence Hindi films. These cinematic enunciations serve as a rich archive of images to reinterpret Gandhi’s various versions and archetypes in the contemporary world. Attending to Gandhi’s uncanny presence as “psychoanalytical listening” based on the Hindi films’ interpretations, the chapter aims to explore the spectator’s ethical task in excavating and deconstructing the contents of the cinematic texts.
Gandhi in Popular Culture: A Critical Study of Gandhigiri in Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Mittal Publication , 2022
andhi returned to India on January 9, 1915, from South Africa and since then he actively participated in and led various movements, protests, and marches and even fasted to mark his protest peacefully and non-violently to set our nation free from the British subjugation. Because of his pacifist civil disobedience and leadership, the British Government always took him as a threat to its throne. Gandhi's political activism began in 1917-1918 when he took up the issues of Champaran farmers, the Ahmadabad textile workers, the Kheda peasants, etc. These struggles witnessed his specific mode of agitation, widely known as Satyāgrah, which he had earlier developed in the South African context and through which he was successful in achieving his socioeconomic and political goals. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan calls him "the supreme religion, the essence of all religions and a symbol of communal unity and universal humanity." On a similar note, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the Hon'ble President of India, once said to commence the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gandhi that, "[H]e was the inspiration for our largely non-violent, inclusive and democratic freedom struggle." Gandhi's thoughts, words, and activism, thus, continue to inspire and influence various forms of epistemologies and augment several streams of ontological tools. Many branches of the Humanities and Social Sciences are taught under the rubric of Gandhian theory and his philosophy of satyā and ahimsā. Thus, we see that Gandhi has permeated himself into many disciplines of knowledge and the younger minds too need to be kindled by the veteran Gandhi scholars which is the need of the hour. We, the editors of the volume, strived to bring both of the generations to a single dais by organising a two-day National We shall be failing in our duties if we forget to thank our parents, teachers, colleagues, and family members for their peerless perseverance and cherubic love and trust in us.