Summary

The Gandhi Murder is a period movie based on true events that led to the eventual assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The movie demonstrates a violent India, against the backdrop of a non-violent Gandhi, and hard-line fanatic mindsets beginning to grow roots in a country divided on the basis of religion. The movie unravels facts that are bound to trigger the thought that what is conveyed by governements is seldom the full truth, and that politics define what history books write. That both the police and the Indian politicians were well aware about the impending assassination, and even knew about the key planners, and yet did not act in time demonstrates that the assassination was not an act of a single assassin, but a collective plan hatched within the corridors of power of the newly independent India. The film follows three Senior police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi's life in under threat, must take key decisions that would eventually either save the Mahatma, or the country.