Swatantra Veer Savarkar review – biopic of Hindu nationalist is self-defeating call to arms

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Politically-inspired biopic of Indian politician who opposed Gandhi’s non-violence is hamstrung by its own lack of action

f all the hot takes you expect to see when you go to the cinema, the suggestion that Mahatma Gandhi was overrated is perhaps low down the list. But this Hindi biopic of argues exactly that, although it’s careful to have Savarkar note: “I don’t hate Gandhi, I hate non-violence.” Okay then.

Where it would have seemed like an open goal, considering this biopic’s political agenda, to make Savarkar into a heroic figure who physically battles his enemies, in fact he spends much the hefty runtime studying law in the UK, having little chats in libraries with figures like Lenin, and, for a long stretch in the second half, suffering in.

 

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