In the decades following his death in 1948, the man known as Mahatma Gandhi has become an icon. Photos of him at his spinning wheel wearing a white loincloth are ubiquitos and globally recognized as Bob Marley with dreadlocks or Che Guevara in a beret. Gandhi inspired civil-rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. of the U.S. and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, among others.
Many know of Gandhi's courage and determination as a freecom fighter, but few know of his shortcomings as a father. In the film, Harilal views Gandhi as alternatively aloof and domineering, stubborn and even selfish, traits that helped estrange his eldest son, even though first-born males are traditionally the most favored children in Indian culture.
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In his later years, Gandhi said his greatest regret in life was his inability to sway two people: Mohammed Ail Jinnah, whose push for a seperate homeland for Muslims led to the partition of India and Pakistan soon after independence, and Harilal.
- AWSJ on GANDHI my father (a film by Feroz Abbas Khan)
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