I made Summer of ’76 in the summer of 2024. It’s still awaiting release. So before anyone calls it a response to the movements we’re seeing today, let me clarify, the series was made and delivered before these protests began.
It’s based on Ramesh Dixit’s reminiscences and the third volume of my Grandfather DP Mishra’s autobiography “Living an era��.
Starring Isha Talwar, Rohan Verma, Vishal Vashishta, TJ Bhanu, Ullas Samrat, Mayank Murti, Vivaan Shah, Vivaan Parashar. Including Rajat Kapoor, Anjan Dutt, Manav Vij, Rahul Bhatt, Saurabh Shukla, Ruchi Narayan, Vipin Sharma in special appearance.
Some stories take time to reach the world. That doesn’t mean they were born yesterday.
I'm making a film on Gandhi . About a time in his life that few understand but I am not a hagiographer, nor am I making this film simply because my mother told me to. Gandhi was a man who could not leave himself alone. He listened to his critics: not as a courtesy, but as a man listens when he fears the critic may be right. He used what he heard to become someone he had not been. Think what you like of him. There has been almost no one like him.
What you will be watching is not a saint. That is the lie we tell so that we may sit still, and the sitting still is the crime. What you are watching is a man coming apart in public and refusing the mercy of doing it in private: furious, and not with the enemy. That would have been too simple, but with his own, the people he had carried and who had carried him, who had learned every word of his language and not one syllable of what the words were for. He had given them a vocabulary. They had made of it a career. Most chose comfort, or despair, which is only comfort dressed in black. He wrenched himself out of both. He never said his was the only road .
VIDEO | Mumbai: Dr. Sagar, an acclaimed lyricist and poet, pays tributes to Ramesh Chandra Jha on his death anniversary today (April 7). Jha made significant contributions to both the freedom struggle and the field of literature. A renowned freedom fighter from Bihar and a sensitive literary figure, Ramesh Chandra Jha spread social awareness and national consciousness through his writings and his relentless struggle.
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