Pratik Gandhi, Hansal Mehta, Sameer Nair on ‘Gandhi’ Series: ‘We Treat Him as a Character, Not as God, Nor as a Demon’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Indian studio Applause Entertainment‘s upcoming big-budget series “Gandhi” aims to humanize the Mahatma.
The first season covers the formative years of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s life as a law student in London and later as lawyer and civil rights activist in South Africa, during which time he conceived the ideas that ultimately led India to independence from British rule.
Gandhi became known as Mahatma, or great soul, for his leading part in the independence movement. The series sees the reunion of Applause, director Hansal Mehta and actor Pratik Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) who plays Gandhi, after hit SonyLIV series “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” (2020).
The benchmark for on-screen depictions of Gandhi remains Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), which won eight Oscars. “It’ll be complementary in that sense, because Attenborough had some three hours to tell the story, which is a big story and a big life,” Applause CEO Sameer Nair told Variety. “Our approach always from the start has been that we’re telling the larger definitive story, we’ve got a lot more time.
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