‘Hey Ram is my apology to Mahatma Gandhi’: Kamal Haasan
The HinduA little over a month back, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi turned 150. The almost wailing voice of Kamal in the song ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ reverberated off the walls of Sathyam Cinemas, where a special screening of the film was arranged by Raaj Kamal Films International, with a singular purpose: to recall a dark chapter of India’s history and to celebrate the man who introduced ahimsa to the world. I never call him Mahatma because I wanted to see his face behind such a big halo.” About the significance of surrealism in the interval stretch and why Kamal had used soma rasa to get Saketh Ram turned into an assassin, the actor said, “I wanted something heady to show his mind-state. There is a thin line between bhakti and eroticism, which you would find even in Guna,” said Kamal, adding, “I wanted to show the dichotomy between Saketh Ram and Gandhi. I thought the audience wanted a change, but I was wrong,” he said, explaining, “When I went to Raaja, his first question was: ‘What shall we do now?’, instead of ‘Why did you leave me?’” Having completed the shoot, Kamal even thought of re-shooting certain sequences when Ilaiyaraaja came onboard.
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