BERETTA M1934

THE MEN WHO KILLED GANDHI.
Yes, there is no spelling mistake. Its not MAN, its MEN. Whenever something about Gandhiji’s assassination comes up, few answers/opinions instantly strikes to us as per our knowledge. It was Nathuram Godse who triggered the bullet, 30th January, Birla Bhawan, 12:30 in the noon ..... that is it. A common man still perceives Nathuram Godse as some victim of partition or british rule.
Greatness of Gandhiji is well known in general. Books, literature, documentaries, movies are ample and at the same time authentic to prove it. But, the idea is to look at the other side of the coin. The approach is to explore and address the reasons which led to rise of counter ideology. The purpose is to go beyond the history books which has been taught to the large mass of India ever since independence.
Following the basics of cinema, we chose this story for multiple reasons to be told to the audience as it is appealing yet unknown, unexplored and shocking as well.
While scratching the history books one gathers information of Nathuram Godse who pulled the trigger but there were 5 other men behind the plotting of incident. Nathuram was a journalist, with great command over literature, philosophy and religion. He was a great supporter of Gandhiji during Non- Cooperation movement. He in-fact left his government job and chose to tailor the clothes for survival. There are hundreds of such hidden truth that our script unfolds. One of the major among them is that “GANDHIJI / Father of the nation” could have been saved but due to police and few politician’s negligence and cowardliness of witnesses, it became unavoidable.
But was that it?? Was allocating 55 crore to the Pakistan by Mahatma Gandhi the only reason for his assassination?? OR this is what our half-backed history books have told us??
In actuality truth is something else which comes beyond the chapters of books and pages of research journals. Right from fear of Brahmins of Maharashtra loosing their dominance to a secular nation, to giving more importance to muslim community there are many reasons which made Nathuram Godse and other conspirators to attempt Mahatma’s assassination for 6 times in total.
Despite a periodic script, it is not on a massive scale in terms of production. Here our protagonists are the conspirators. With this factor we want to light up the darkness that Indian Cinema has imposed on Indian audience. We have just followed the basics of cinema i.e Movie is about story telling and a story comprises of characters and the crisis they deal with.
Treatment of script is done with a balance approach. The content would be easily accessible to the every category of audience. Also, we don’t want any stamp of art-house / commercial / offbeat cinema. There is no message in the script i.e Nothing is on the face.
Screenplay follows a non-linear pattern as it has been broken into six chapters. Various technical aspects like voice overs, off sounds, montages etc are involved. It is multilayered at some places with an open ending. Dialogues are in colloquial parlance with the 1870 - 1950 period. The dramatic premise of screenplay deals in back story of the conspirators, present lives, meeting with each other, plotting of incident, failures and internal conflicts, formation of the ideological, sociopolitical circumstances. At the end of the day, our script is subtle and authentic with few cinematic liberties (without compromising with any historical facts) at various places aiming to reach out to audience of every category.