Hansal Mehta’s ‘Gandhi’ will be the world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Applause Entertainment’s much awaited international series ‘Gandhi’ is going to be held in the World Premier 2025’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). This is a very special and historical moment for Indian stories. The series, directed by famous director Hansal Mehta and Prateek Gandhi’s lead role, is included in Tiff’s ‘Primatime Program’, and is the first Indian series that will be shown at this big international festival.
Based on the authentic books of historian Ramchandra Guha, ‘Gandhi’ is a very big and many season story. This series shows us the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from a new perspective – not just like the great person we know, but as a young, short -run and ambitious person, which the world has not yet known.
The first season of the series, named ‘An Untold Story of Bekcoming (1888–1915), shows Gandhi’s initial visit. It is the story of a curious teenager of colonial India, a shy law student in London and then a young lawyer spending 23 years in South Africa. This story is filled with contradictions, failures and self-addiction. Long before becoming Mahatma, he was just “Mohan”.
TIFF’s primetime program, which started in 2015, has so far found the series that have carried forward the story stories. Many big series like Alphonso Quaron’s “Disclaimer” and Netflix’s “Dark” have been included in it. Now the inclusion of ‘Gandhi’ in this list is a large cultural milestone.
Sameer Nair, managing director of Applaz Entertainment, said that Gandhi’s selection in TIFF is a matter of great pride for us and Indian stories. He said that this series is the result of intensive research and unwavering faith in the human story that we wanted to tell the world.
Director and show-star Hansal Mehta said that ‘Gandhi’ has been the most creative and heart touching journey of his career. He said that this is not just the story of the past, but a thinking on the conscience of man. The premiere of his biggest project in the 50th year of TIFF is special for him.
Special members of the team will be present at the Tiff Premier, including Sameer Nair, Hansal Mehta, Siddharth Khaitan, Prateek Gandhi, Tom Felton and Kabir Bedi. Music AR in this big project Rahman has given. It is written by Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas, Felix von Stum, Hema Gopinathan, Sahaj Kaur Manny and Yashna Malhotra. Script advisor Siddharth Basu and historian Ramchandra Guha have also helped in this.
