Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
Acting
Kamal Haasan's descent is physically devastating.
Direction
Kamal frames partition trauma as personal horror epic.
Writing
Script weaponizes irony — killer becomes witness.
Director
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan
Saket Ram
Shah Rukh Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Hema Malini
Ambujam
Rani Mukerji
Aparna Ram
Vasundhara Das
Mythili Iyengar
Girish Karnad
Uppilli Iyengar
Naseeruddin Shah
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Om Puri
Goel
Atul Kulkarni
Shriram Abhayankar
Vikram Gokhale
Maharaja
Saurabh Shukla
Lalwani
Farida Jalal
Kasturba Gandhi
Nassar
Ibrahim
Abbas
Munavar
Sowcar Janaki
Mythili's Grandmother
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kamal Haasan mortgaged his house to fund this after studios balked at the budget and political sensitivity.
Banned in Singapore and Malaysia for 'racial sensitivities' — ironically proving its point about how nations suppress communal memory.
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