“Lead on Gandhi”: Kamal Haasan’s Powerful Tribute on Martyrs’ Day
A poignant short documentary titled “Lead on Gandhi” is released, carrying a deeply reflective message voiced by Kamal Haasan and Gopal Krishna Gandhi—two voices firmly anchored in India’s moral, democratic, and intellectual traditions.
With restrained yet compelling intensity, the documentary traces the extraordinary journey of the bullet that assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—from the mines of Italy to Birla House, New Delhi. By following the path of this single object across continents and decades, the film exposes the unsettling global networks of violence, and the tragic irony that instruments of hatred often travel more freely than ideas of peace and compassion.
More than a historical chronicle, “Lead on Gandhi” is a profound meditation on what the world lost on January 30, 1948. At a time when polarisation, intolerance, and ideological rigidity are increasingly normalised worldwide, the documentary raises urgent and uncomfortable questions: What happens when non-violence is dismissed as weakness? What kind of society emerges when moral courage is forgotten?
Through Kamal Haasan’s reflective narration, the film powerfully connects Gandhi’s assassination to the present moment, reinforcing the idea that ahimsa is not passive, and that love, truth, restraint, and dialogue demand far greater courage than anger or revenge.
Released on Martyrs’ Day, “Lead on Gandhi” stands not merely as a tribute to the Father of the Nation, but as a timely call to conscience—urging citizens to reclaim empathy, ethical responsibility, and non-violence in public and private life.
As the documentary movingly reminds us, the mortal man may have fallen to a bullet, but his immortal ideals can perish only if we choose to abandon them.
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