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Views on MOHANDAS
“An unflinching look at an India that has changed on the inside and gone unnoticed...An extremely independent film in the truest sense”
- Shimit Amin, Director Chak De India
"I saw Mazhar Kamran's directorial debut and I was struck by the core of goodness that bound the theme to the audience in a clasp of camaraderie. Depicted with unostentatious and unassuming authenticity...Kamran doesn’t try to impress us with his nobility of vision. Mohandas falls in the same line of idealistic vision as Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades...“
- Subhash K Jha in Times of India
"Mazhar Kamran has deftly directed a drama that sometimes resembles a Kafkaesque tale and sometimes a thriller, while relentlessly tackling the corruption and trafficking widespread in Indian provinces. ...This stunning fable is one of the most strikingly successful political movies made in these last few years.“
- Edouard Waintrop (French film critic, Paris)
"Mohandas is a warning that the essence of humanism is not crushed out by the macabre forces of technological progress“
- Padmabhushan Kunwar Narain in Jansatta
“Mazhar Kamran’s film raises pertinent questions about an individual’s responsibility as citizen both for Gandhi’s murder and for India’s subsequent failure to disseminate his ideas and his legacy in contemporary India.
Kamran's cinematography has a jet-like pace, gaining in speed, pace and momentum in keeping with the twists and turns in Mohandas' tragic story. ‘Fake lives are real and the real does not even exist,’ says Meghna. That sums up the film's strong and satiric message”
- Shoma Chatterji in the Statesman, Kolkata
"Kamran’s first film is a striking Kafkaesque tale of identity theft and sanctioned sleight of hand."
- Roger Garcia, 52nd San Francisco Intnl. Film Festival
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
Super Uncle is the education superhero – Mid-day, November 10, 2014
‘Uncle’s’ home was their classroom and lifeline – Mumbai Mirror, October 01, 2014
Lay stress on edu for Muslim women – DNA, June 10, 2014
In conversation with Mazhar Kamran - Lokvani, January 19, 2010
Golden trophies 2009 – Hindustan Times, December 3, 2009
Mohandas – OutlookIndia.com, September 14, 2009
Life as it is in the heartland of India – The Hindu, September 6, 2009
The bigger picture – DNA, September 6, 2009
Mohandas is a must watch – Rediff.com, September4, 2009
Trials of a nameless hero – livemint.com, September 3, 2009
Heart and soul - The Telegraph - Calcutta – August 3, 2009
Name Calling – The Indian Express, June 16, 2009
Gandhi in our times – India Together, May 3, 2009
Mohandas goes to San Francisco – DNA, April 5, 2009
Mohandas is a metaphor – The Tribune, February 1, 2009
In Pursuit of Mohandas – The Times of India, March 23, 2008
The eye of the director – Sunday Herald, November 25, 2007
Of values lost along the way – Deccan Herald