Director: Ashok Tyagi

Producer: Kalyani Singh

Starring: Amol Kolhe (Nathuram Godse)

Presenter: Maann Singh

Release date: January 30, 2022

It is not often that you get to see films that are taken from real life, especially when it comes to life stories on people who gave up everything to get India free. Maann Singh's Why I Killed Gandhi is the picturisation of the legal statement that was submitted by Nathuram Godse to the honourable Court during Gandhiji’s murder trial. With the permission of Justice Atma Charan, the statement was read out by Nathuram Godse before the Court. It took almost four-and-a-half hours for the entire statement to be read out. It was later published as a book by the same title. This book is freely available at all popular e-commerce sites.

Everybody knows that Gandhiji was killed by Nathuram Godse. But the burning question -- what prompted him to take such an extreme step – was never answered. However, a perception has been created that Godse was a terrorist or a mentally disbalanced Hindu extremist. However, when you read his statement, you realise that he was a freedom fighter and social activist from Pune and edited a newspaper Agrani.

In 1964, the Government instituted a one-man commission under the jurisdiction of Justice JL Kapoor, a retired justice of the Supreme Court to investigate into the causes that led to the murder of Gandhiji. Justice JL Kapoor submitted his report in 1970 and the 10-minute commentary in the beginning of the film is the reproduction of the selected passages from the Chapter 12 of that report. The remaining 35 minutes of the film, the edited version, is the legal statement submitted by Godse to the Court of law. Every word spoken in the film is the translation of words taken from this legal document. What the film reveals has been systematically suppressed since Nathuram Godse was hanged and it gives a radically alternative perspective to look at the history of 20th Century India.