Hear O, Mahatma

Wading through the hybrid mode of the Essay format, this film oscillates between documentary and fiction, invoking the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi to confront the vastly distorted zeitgeist.

Through the lives of three distinct individuals - a confused filmmaker who flows with the events that are thown at him, a dedicated social reformer whose impeccable rhetorical powers have lifted the social lives of the unentitled masses and a powerful but regressive poster boy mass leader of the far right - the film exposes the distorted contradictions of our times.

Being each other＇s doppelgangers, and of the filmmaker himself who plays all three roles, the trio alternatively share a common living space in a city of the state of Gujarat, India. Irrespective of the purpose of their visit to the city, they are bound together not just by thier looks, but also by the way they unchangingly indulge themselves in the very same mundane routine of eat-sleep-shit and repeat.

By juxtaposing their life trajectories, the film conjures up a provocative question: did Gandhi ever foresee the level at which the dangerous deformation that his legacy has now morphed into?