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Starring:
Raghuvir Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Aman Verma, Lucky Vakharia,
Nalin Singh
Director:
Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
'Gandhi to
Hitler' the film brings in a sharp contrast between the
two leaders by the letters they exchange. It is about
the last days of Adolf Hitler, when he is hiding in a
bunker in Berlin as the Allied Forces close in.
Hitler is one of the most hated men in history, a
ruthless leader and this is when he is hunted down and
killed. The contrast is highlighted when Hitler mutters
in rage –"An eye for an eye!'" and Gandhi the peace
loving leader's preaching to the world is – "An eye for
an eye makes the whole world blind..."
The film was originally titled as Dear Friend Hitler.
1939 - A world plagued with unrest and upheaval. Adolf
Hitler’s ruthless ambition for German expansion in
Eastern Europe is becoming increasingly violent and
inhuman.
We witness a
contrast in the ideologies of these two leaders and the
eminent result of Hitler’s brutal and catastrophic
methods.
Gandhi to
Hitler looks at Hitler’s downfall, his last days when
only his love Eva Braun and his trusted aide Joseph
Goebbels stood by him, as the Germany around him
crumbled and his trusted comrades deserted him; and
through the central young couple Balbir and Amrita we
see that the fate of many was determined by the ideology
that they chose to adopt.
The film establishes the superiority of Gandhism over
Nazism, thereby giving the message of world peace, a
message still relevant in today’s context where the
world continues to grapple with the dark clouds of
terrorism.
Cast
Raghuvir Yadav - Adolf Hitler
Neha Dhupia - Eva Braun
Aman Verma - Balbir Singh
Nasir Abdullah - Albert Speers
Avijit Dutt - Gandhi
Lucky Vakharia - Amrita
Nikita Anand - Magda Goebbels
Nalin Singh - Joseph Goebbles
Sumit Bharadwaj
Vikrant Vivek
Jatin Serna Shaqir
Munish Sharma Gopal
Arpit Himmat
Vikram Hamid
Bhupesh Kumar Pandya
Hanuman Prasad
Deepak Gulati
Shakti Kumar
Nitin Gupta
Rajnish Satija
Vivek Bharadwaj
Noor Quresh
Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Sanjay Bhatia
Akshay Thakur
Raman Deep Kaur
Karan Rajput
Malvika Satija
Sarnav Berry
Divya Jain
Naisha Arora
Deepshikha
Divya Vats
Abhishrut Rajhans
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Whereas another nation, India, struggles in its fight for
freedom against the British as the idealistic Mahatama
Gandhi continues to appeal to his countrymen to adopt a
stand of non-violence and that’s why Gandhiji had penned
two letters to the German dictator to reconsider his
political decisions.
A stark contrast in ideologies even with an eventual
common opponent, Gandhi one day decides to pen a letter to
the German dictator… a letter he hoped would persuade
Hitler to change his path and avoid the Second World War,
avoid the massive calamity that it would bring on.
Gandhi then wrote a second
letter to Hitler, this time closer to Hitler’s own
downfall, at a time when Hitler was plagued with betrayal
all around him while confined to an underground bunker.
This is a period film and credit has to be given to the
director for presenting the minutest of the details of the
bygone era. At some places the footage of World War II war
carnage is used. Raghuvir Yadav is an experienced actor
and plays Hitler’s part well so does Neha Dhupia who plays
Eva Braun, Hitler’s longtime companion whom he married in
his final days.
What is the end result? With ahimsa, India achieved
freedom which shows the fluttering Indian tricolour with
Nehru's freedom speech playing in the background. And back
in Berlin, Hitler had to bite the dust, and his few
followers burn his body and then commit suicide
themselves.
Director Rakesh Ranjan Kumar beautifully portrays Hitler’s
relationship with his associates and about his
insecurities and when he was plagued with betrayal all
around him in those last days. The Third Reich and Hitler
failed as they did not believe in ahimsa (non-violence)
but rather prefer to tread the path of liberal war crimes.
- Amar Jeet
Credits & Crew:
Producer -Dr.Anil Kumar Sharma
Screenplay & Direction - Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
Scripting and Research Team - Dr. Pallavi Mishra, Rakesh
Ranjan Kumar, Mansi
Co Producer - Nalin Singh
Conceived & written by Nalin Singh
Editor - Shree Narayan Singh
Director of photography - Fuwad khan
Creative consultant - Imtiaz Ali
Background Score - Sanjoy Chowdhury
Lyrics - Dr.Pallavi Mishra
Music Directors - Arvind-Lyton, Aman-Benson, Sanjoy
Chowdhury
Executive Producer - Devanand Nair
Supervising Producer - Kaustabh Chaudhary
Production designer - Soumitra Dasgupta
Associate Producer - Dr.Pallavi Mishra
Costume Designers - Lipika Singh, Preeti Singh, Deesha
Thakkar
Chief Assistant Directors - Subodh Agrawal, Rohit Gaba
Assistant Directors - Ruchika Chaudhary, Niti Roshan
Sharma, Kamal Malhotra
Make-up Designer - Pattanam Rasheed.
Sound Designer - Vaidy
Re-Recording Mixer - Anuj Mathur (YRF Studios)
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