Synopsis
"Hey Ram" (2000) is an Indian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM — written, directed, and performed by Kamal Haasan, released simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi after five years in production.
Calcutta, August 1947. Partition riots leave the city burning, and Saketh Ram loses his wife to mob violence. The grief curdles into something deliberate: a conviction that Mahatma Gandhi bears responsibility for the country's suffering, and a plan to kill him. Shah Rukh Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Hema Malini, and Rani Mukherjee fill out a cast that rarely assembles in a single production.
At 199 minutes, "Hey Ram" moves with the patience of a novel. Haasan's tagline — Gandhi's own phrase "An Experiment With Truth" — is a genuine question, not a marketing hook. One of the most formally ambitious Tamil films made at the turn of the millennium. Stream it online on iFILM.
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