Gandhi Ji- do we really hate him

I saw this movie called "Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara" produced by Anupam Kher. He also plays the main character in the movie. Basically the movie revolves around this writer, who has started to lose his memory and for some reason begins to believe that he had killed Gandhi Ji, and that it was an accident. In the climax of the movie, he says something that Gandhi Ji apparently tells him...

I will summarize what Gandhi Ji tells him..."I don’t want this false affection and respect that India gives me. They have caged me in currency notes, put up statues, but no one actually cares. They come visit me just twice a year. I don’t want this false love"

I personally started disliking (I wont use the word hate) him, when I was in junior school. Basically because there was a chapter in my Hindi text book about him and his teachings that too in every year of my studies up till 9th class. I thought i was done with him by 9th, but to my utter disappointment, there was a huge passage on him in my 10th class English board exam. That’s when my disliking for him reached unseen heights. The prime reason being that lessons on or about him were tough .And year after year being taught about him was more like an overdose of Gandhi Ji. Sometimes it felt forceful to learn those lessons. And eventually those lessons turned out to be the ones, one was tested the most on .I usually managed to scrape through the Hindi exams, much to the relief of my mom .I used to dislike him from the core. Frankly speaking, I learned a lot more about him through this movie called "GANDHI" than i learned through those crazy lessons. I do remember several lessons that were taught during my junior schooling, but I fail to recollect any lesson about Gandhi Ji.

During my 11th and 12th class and then during my college days, I realized that I was not alone in feeling this way about Gandhi Ji. Lots of my friends felt the same way. There are a million jokes on Gandhi Ji, and they do make a good laugh. Stories of him being a sexual maniac did the rounds in chatting sessions ,though sessions about him were very rare .I don’t know if those stories are true, but never the less, it added fuel to furry(not exactly furry). 2nd October, Gandhi Ji's birthday is a national Holiday. And all I do is thank him for being born on this day. When an elderly person, be it a teacher or a grand parent starts telling me about Gandhi Ji, I feel like running away from there..its like.."havent I heard enough, when will u let me go"..for how long will we be reminded about what all he did.
I don’t think any of the students or for that matter anyone else, denies what he has done for India. I personally respect him for what he was and what all he did for me to enjoy this freedom .I think every Indian acknowledges this. "Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara" did get me thinking about a few things.

Do you think Gandhi Ji cares about how people feel about him now?
Does he want people to worship him?
Isn’t it enough for him to realize that, the current generation respects and acknowledges what he did for India?


One cant force someone to develop a liking towards Gandhi Ji. It is for one to decide for him/her self, how he/she feels about Gandhi Ji."Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara" was a good movie, but the message the producer wants to convey doesn’t appeal to me. I personally think Gandhi Ji isn’t so lame to have said those lines...The writer seems to have got it wrong.
I don’t think I hate him..I don’t think I like him either. Am just indifferent when it comes to him..but I do acknowledge everything he has done for this country...