Monday, April 12, 2010

Road to Sangam (2009)


Cast: Om Puri , Paresh Rawal , Pawan Malhotra.

Har taraf shor hai, kya baat hai pata to karo
Kaise inme ab tak aag hai pata to karo.
Wo shaks jo manjil ka pata baant raha tha
Kaha gaya pata nahi pata to karo.

A beautifull movie on the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi. How a simple man changes the thinking of first his friends and then his community.
Synopsis: A Muslim mechanic named Hasmat Ullah (Paesh Rawal) who has been entrusted the job of repairing an old V8 ford engine, not knowing the historic significance that it once carried the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi which were immersed in the holy river Sangam. He is caught in a complex situation after a powerful bomb explosion rocks his town leading to the arrest of innocent Muslim youths of his locality. A strike to work is called by the prominent Leaders of his community to protest against the unjust treatment meted out to those arrested youths by the police. Then how he concur all his people to allow him to work for a MAHATMA who sacrifice his life to the nation.