Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shah

If there is any one point in Feroze A. Khan's Gandhi, My Father (not to be confused with the yester-years film star and maker of Dayavan) that impresses the most, it is the sincerity of intent. Everyone involved in the project shows a genuine attachment to it, which reflects in the quality of their work. That in itself makes it worth your while.

Gandhi, My Father deals principally with the troubled relationship between Mohandas Gandhi aka the Mahatma and his eldest son Harilal. Harilal is known only in a sketchy manner by the public at large, mostly by the incident of his being passed over for a law scholarship due to his father's insistence on "impartiality". This film covers the breadth of Harilal's life: his going to South Africa from Gujrat as a youngster to join his barrister father, participation in the equal rights agitation and accompanying imprisonment, return to India and attempt to raise his family, over the years falling in and out of various schemes to get money or position that would enable him to move out of his father's shadow and the abject failures of those attempts as well as the shambles of his personal life.

Gandhi, My Father is adapted from Feroze's own play Gandhi v/s Gandhi and the most important portions of the film reflect its theater roots; it is essentially a series of encounters between Harilal and his father at various points of time. These are brilliantly captured, giving us the essence of these 2 men, bound by blood and love but held resolutely apart, one by his impossibly high principles and the other by his inferiority complex and ever-growing resentment of those values.