My favorite things, among others, is to watch a healthy debate. And this film, an 'after-hours' dissection offers a fresh look at history that is mildly thought provoking yet surprisingly light-headed and entertaining. It does leave you with questions, answers, and some more things to reflect upon. As someone who comes from both the schools of thought through lineage, I chuckled at how accurate some depictions were- of believers, of naysayers and of followers who choose to follow for no particular or sound basis/reason. Rajkumar Santoshi and team have given us a film that feels fresh in its devices, the lightness of touching narratives set in stone through decades. AR Rahman's score gave me chills at many places. Goes without saying that man understand cinema, emotions, dialog and poignance of it all like a master. The use of silences and mellow instruments like a flute here a pipe there and the symphonic touches are just other-worldly and underline the film's honest storytelling. Vaishnav Jan To sequence, the opening credits, the end credits suite(Raghupati Raghav) and Godse theme are all Rahman gems from his endless vault of magic.
While the film is far from perfect, we do get flashes of command over scenes, over dialog and over techniques like camera angles and light that infuses life in what essentially is a four-walled play(given it is a play adaptation) within a film's periphery. I particularly liked the courage of the film to humanize these characters through addition of drama and side characters that give us a lens to peep into the ideologies and the ideological conflict at play. Gandhi Godse is definitely a worthy film to catch in the sea of noises. You will walk away with some good thought or the other, if nothing else, you will walk away with a few smiles.