Deepak Sridharan
Hey Ram!!! This movie defines class. Plot Review : Its truly engaging how Saket Ram(KH) after being a victim of the Bengal Riots is made to believe by Hindu Extremist(AK) that MK.Gandhi is responsible for all the Chaos. How the next sequence of events make Saket Ram realize by his own conscience, Amjad Ali Khan (SRK) that Gandhi is the only sanity remaining is the plot of the movie.Acting: Kamal Haasan portrays his character in such a great fashion hardly ever seen before : Jubilant, Grief Stricken, Innocent, As an Aveneger , In Severe Dilemma , Man Reformed the range is awesome. Atul Kulkarni as Shriram Abhyankar leaves a very strong impression and was very rightly awarded the National Award. Shahrukh,Saurabh Shukla, naseeruddin shah, Hema Malini, Girish Karnad, Rani Mukherjee , Vasundra Das and all the well known faces have given their best.Pros : Good Plot, Nice Acting, Technically Brilliant = Great Film. Cons : Too much gore, more than average sexual content.
Ram Anand
I'm from Malaysia and studying films is a part of my academic course. If anything, a film like 'Hey Ram' only makes me feel frustrated because I firmly believe that 'Hey Ram' is out-and-out film school stuff. It should be treasured, appreciated, and studied upon time and again. I would love to get my hand on this movie's script copy. But that is the prejudice and stereotype that Indian films so often suffer from that the effort goes un-recognized. This is underlined by the fact that I had to wait for four years before i could get my hand on a DVD of this movie, so that i could add this to my collection. It is as if the film doesn't even exist in records. Would be an exaggeration to call 'Hey Ram' as a masterpiece? Definitely no. It takes a genius to create a fictional character and fit him so perfectly with what had happened for real during the Partition, make him both a victim and a murderer, also an eyewitness, later portray him as the man who wanted to kill Gandhi but retreated at the end. Ironically, his name is also Ram (the real killer was also Ram). It isn't impactful if your movie is suppose to say Gandhi's a great person and you narration from start to end only shows the positive view of Gandhian principles. But what Kamal has brilliantly done is to sketch a character which is well-reasoned and well-placed to hate Gandhi's principles, make the character feel victimized by Gandhi's ideologies, and later bring the character as close as it gets to Gandhi himself and make the character realize, with the help of his selfless Muslim friend (brilliantly played by Shah Rukh), that non-violence is indeed the answer for the communal riots. I too noticed recently that 'Hey Ram''s cover for an European edition has Shah Rukh completely on it, as if he was the star of the film. Now thats a shame because Shah Rukh was just a guest character and it insults everything Kamal has done for this film. My favourite film of all time this is.
Cijo Thomas
An excellent work by Padmasree KamalHasan! No:1 performance by Kamal proves once again , he is the best actor in the whole globe! The movie is a tribute to the society. Very well pictured.The movie is moving with slow pace through out. Though at times we get the feeling that its gonna pace up, but it still moves in slow pace which might have disappointed some viewers and hence the movie couldn't do well in box office!I think the background music ram .. ram.. hey hey ram ram.. should have been played through out the movie which would have made this more thrilling!Anyways this is a masterpiece! Kamal,RaniMukherji, Shahrukh all done a good job!Cijo Thomas
anaj_manaj
its a real good one.!! a reality show telling viewer what makes a human worse than a cruel and mad animal..and then again shows that still humanity is live like always.. and why our world is best place to live...certainly because our goodwill.. A reality show,fully mature and a search for the truth.its a great story telling with even greater acting by all its characters. it may some time make you think that path of gandhiji was not right,but eventually just like the hero knees down you would think that whatever Mr. Gandhi had in his hand he did his best. thanks to Mr. kamal haasan for his i think best Hindi movie and one of my best one too.. and finally i got it worthy enough to give it 9.9 out of 10.
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