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Mahatma and the Mad Boy (1974)
Directed by Ismail Merchant
Drama · 27m
In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds conversations with a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and scavenges for food with his monkey. By afternoon, a little ceremony is held by well-to-do Gandhi-ites, at which a speaker delivers a sermon on "godly love"; but when the boy comes too close, he is told to move on by a guard, one of a series of exclusions of this onlooker-outcast.
Cast
Sajid Khan
Ruby Myers
Crew
- Director
- Ismail Merchant
- Writer
- Tanveer Farooqi
- Director of Photography
- Subrata Mitra
- Editor
- Andrew Page
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
Details
- Release date
- 1974-03-01
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- India
- Production
- Merchant Ivory Productions