After playing India’s most famous scamster in Applause Entertainment’s ‘Scam 1992’, Pratik Gandhi will now play India’s most famous and iconic personality, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu, aka Gandhiji. Applause Entertainment is developing an epic, multi-season series on the revered Indian freedom fighter, adapted from noted historian Ramachandra Guha’s biographies on the Mahatma.
The Sameer Nair-led prolific production house Applause Entertainment has already bought the series adaptation rights to Ramachandra Guha’s two well-known works on Gandhiji. The two biographies are ‘Gandhi Before India’ and ‘Gandhi – The Years that Changed the World’.
Ramachandra Guha’s works cover the entirety of Gandhiji’s public life. They start from his not-without-fireworks beginnings as a lawyer who displayed a strong sense of justice and self-respect even in his early days of practice; his experiences and endeavours in London and South Africa; and go on to cover his much-publicised, more well-known life as the tireless crusader of India’s freedom from British rule, the facet of him that the world knows and loves.
With the vast material at their disposal in Guha’s works, Applause Entertainment has enough scope to create an epic series that can go on over several seasons. The production house has ambitious plans to create a series to match the scale and scope of Netflix’s British series, ‘The Crown’.
A la ‘The Crown’, Applause Entertainment’s Gandhi series can weave Mahatma Gandhi’s life story around the iconic moments in India’s history and freedom struggle. Including India’s historic freedom fighters such as Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, among others, will add heft and even more gravitas to the narrative.
Pratik Gandhi, being a Gujarati himself, is an excellent choice to play the world’s most famous Gujarati. To top it up, he’s recently in the midst of doing a one-man play in three languages about the younger years of Gandhi – a distinct advantage, as he’s already immersed in the character beforehand.
Applause Entertainment’s Gandhi series will be shot in Gujarati, Hindi and English languages, for the sake of authenticity. The series will go into production in 2023. There’s no word on the rest of the cast or crew of the series yet.
Stay tuned to Binged.com for further details on Applause Entertainment’s Gandhi series.
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