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October the 2nd is a national holiday for all of us. For people at large, while there are some things to look forward to on other National holidays viz. the magnificent parade on 26th January and the PM’s speech on 15th August (new schemes are generally announced in it), Gandhi Jayanti is a day to relax. This observation when looked from the perspective of the youth is even more evident. The ideologies of Peace, Ahimsa, non-cooperation, Swadesi, honesty and integrity were mere words for Gen X. The principles followed by the father of the nation have for long been looked upon and typecast as stereotypical and dull by young India.
Well, all this seems to have changed after the Indian cinema’s resolve to revive the icon of the nation`s freedom struggle - Gandhi. New age directors such as Rajukumar Hirani (Lage Raho Maunna Bhai) and Feroz Abbas Khan (Gandhi My Father), have shown the youth the effectual results that come out of the implementation of these ideologies in today`s fast paced world. If Richard Attenborough’s celluloid epic had swayed audiences across the continents in the 1980s, these recent Bollywood films have sought to explore different aspects of the Mahatma’s mystique. In Jahnu Barua’s interestingly titled film, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara, a retired lecturer suffering from Alzheimer’s who is convinced that he assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
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Before concluding, another interesting piece of trivia, that would justify the title of this post. A recent poll on university campuses across the US put Mahatma Gandhi ahead of political figures anywhere in the world — the only man more popular than him among the student community, understandably, was Bill Gates!