Hey Ram Bollywood Film Details :
Hey Ram is a 2000 Indian bollywood alternate historical fiction-political thriller film simultaneously made in Tamil, Hindi and also dubbed in Telugu. The film was written, directer & producer by Kamal Haasan, who also acted as the protagonist in the film. The film’s soundtrack and background score were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The semi-fictional plot centers on India’s Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse.The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India, and was selected by Film Federation of India as its submission to the Oscars in the year 2000, but was not nominated. The film has garnered three National Film Awards. The copyrights to this film are owned by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment.
The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India and selected by Film Federation of India as its submission to the Oscars in the year 2000, but was not nominated. The film has garnered three National Film Awards. Internationally, the film was screened at the 25th Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2000 Locarno Festival.
- Directer : Kamal Haasan
- Producer : Kamal Haasan,Bharat Shah,Charuhasan,Chandrahasan.
- Written : Kamal Haasan,Manohar Shyam Joshi
- Screenplay : Kamal Haasan
- Story : Kamal Haasan
- Starring : Kamal Haasan,Shah Rukh Khan,Rani Mukerji,Hema Malini,Atul Kulkarni,Abbas,Nassar,Girish Karnad,Naseeruddin Shah,Saurabh Shukla,Vikram Gokhale,Aravind Akash,Vaali,Showkar Janaki
- Music : Ilaiyaraaja
- Cinematography : Tirru
- Edited : Renu Saluja
- Productioncompany : Raaj Kamal Films International,VIP Films
- Distributed : Raajkamal Films International,Red Chillies Entertainment
- Art Direction : Sabu Cyril
- Costume Design : Sarika,Reza Shariffi
- Makeup Department : Ed French,Anil Pemgirikar,Dhananjay Prajapati,Michael Westmore
- Visual Effects : Sandeep Bachhe,Michael Do,Micheal Do,Mark Holmes,Mark L. Holmes,Jeetendra
- Stunts : Vikram Dharma
- Genres : Crime,Drama,History
- Release date : 18 February 2000
- Running time : 210 minutes Tamil version,207 minutes Hindi version
- Country : India
- Language : Tamil,Hindi
Hey Ram Full Movie Trailer :
Hey Ram Movie Star Cast :
- Kamal Haasan as Saket Ram / Saketharaman
- Shah Rukh Khan as Amjad Ali Khan
- Naseeruddin Shah as Mahatma Gandhi
- Hema Malini as Ambujam
- Vasundhara Das as Mythili Saketharaman
- Rani Mukerji as Aparna Saket Ram
- Girish Karnad as Uppilli
- Om Puri as Goel
- Vikram Gokhale as Maharaja
- Saurabh Shukla as Lalvani
- Nassar as Ibrahim
- Abbas as Munavar
- Atul Kulkarni as Shriram Abhayankar
- Sowcar Janaki as Mythili’s grandmother
- Vaali as Bhashyam
- Iravati Harshe as Nafisa
- Gautam Kanthadai as Saket Ram Jr.
- Nagamani Mahadevan as Vasantha
- V. S. Raghavan as K. T. Chari
- Delhi Ganesh as Chari
- Gollapudi Maruti Rao as Govardhan
- Y. G. Mahendran as Yagyam
- Vaiyapuri as Vedha (Tamil version)
- Arun Mehra as Vedha (Hindi version)
- Ram Mohan as a refugee
- Arun Bali as Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
- Shadaab Khan as Altaf Tailor
- Yatin Karyekar as Qureshi
- Manoj Pahwa as Jalal
- Chandrahasan as Mohan Gandhiraman
- Lewis Elbinger as Mortimer Wheeler
- Tushar Gandhi as himself
- Mohini Mathur as Hajra Begum
- Madhuri Sanjeev as Bina Lalvani
- Sharad Ponkshe as Nathuram Godse
- Shubhangi Gokhale as Rani
- K. S. Ramesh as an inspector at Marina Hotel
- Umesh Sharma as Altaf’s mother
- S. K. Ghosh as Chattopadhyay
- Annapoorna as Mrs. Chattopadhyay
- Anand as a doctor at Delhi hospital
- Ambarish as a doctor at Delhi hospital
- U. B. G. Menon as E. V. K. Nair
- Bolai Sarkar as a drunkard in Calcutta
- Nagaraja Bhagavathar as Jeganatha Iyengar
- Shruti Haasan as Vallabhbhai Patel’s daughter
- Taj Bansal as the blind girl of Belliaghatta
- Bobby Bedi as Chotu Ram
- Mohammed Ali as Amjad’s Father
- Arun Patekar as Sardar Vallabhai Patel
- Yunus as Abul Kalam Azad
- Raj Patra as Jawaharlal Nehru
- Savar as Lord Mountbatten
- Amitabh Srivastava as Babu Rajendra Prasad
- Gilles as Henri Cartier Bresson
- Supritha as Abha Ben
- Rashmi as Manu Ben
- Rahul as Gopal Godse
- Jayasimha as Ramachandra Badge
- Vikram as Vishnu Narayana Apte
- Sirish Purohit as Vishnu Karkare
- Aravind Akash as Sankar Kishthaya
- Vivek as Madanlal Pahwa
- Shabbir Ahmed as Aparna’s attacker
- A. C. Murali as Parthasarathy
- Nikita Palekar as Pushpa Iyengar
- Sanjana Khanna as Amjad’s daughter
Hey Ram Movie Story :
The film starts with Saketh Ram as a very old man and almost immediately goes into flashback. As a young man he is among his friends, in conviviality. He has taken a Bengali wife, Aparna, and everything is wonderful in his life, However the year is 1946, and the imminent independence of India from British suzerainty is complicated by religious antagonism between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority, who demand their own independent state. Saketh and Aparna visit Calcutta; rioting is reported, but Saketh goes out to get some food, and he soon encounters a Hindu woman being chased by Muslim rioters. He rescues her, but the rioters later come to his house, and brutally rape and then kill his wife. Saketh is devastated and takes to the streets, determined personally to kill as many Muslims as he can find. He meets up with Sriram Abhiyankar, who is leading a group of Hindu extremists, and Saketh becomes temporarily taken with the cause himself. At the same time, he is persuaded…
Hey Ram Movie Songs / Music :
Initially Kamal Haasan roped in violinist L. Subramaniam to compose music for the film. Kamal Haasan completed shooting the whole film along with the song sequences that were composed by L. Subramaniam. But when Kamal approached L. Subramaniam for the final sound for mixing, he had asked for 1,00,00,000 (almost US$ 1,40,100) which was not the amount agreed upon earlier.So, Kamal went to composer Ilaiyaraaja to help him solve this situation. Kamal quotes “He [Ilaiyaraaja] didn’t ask me anything about what went wrong, he should have asked, but he didn’t, that shows his true character. He asked me point blank, what shall we do next?”. Kamal Haasan told Ilaiyaraaja that the songs had already been shot with the music composed by L. Subramaniam and he wanted to remove the songs and re-shoot them with Ilaiyaraaja’s. On hearing that, Ilaiyaraaja suggested Kamal Haasan he would fix it without needing to re-shoot any footage including songs. Puzzled, Kamal Haasan initially was not so enthusiastic about this idea. Then Ilaiyaraaja asked Kamal, “you don’t trust me to do this?”. Kamal immediately agreed and said he would go with Ilaiyaraaja’s idea.
The lyrics for the songs were not changed but Ilaiyaraaja composed new tunes for the songs that would be in sync with the already shot footage. The background music and the songs were recorded in Hungary’s Budapest Symphony Orchestra and thus Hey Ram becoming the first Tamil film and the second Indian film to be re-recorded with a foreign symphony orchestra. The first one was Ilaiyaraaja’s own score for the Malayalam film Guru.[10] The song “Isaiyil Thodangudhamma” was not there initially, but Ilaiyaraaja had seen an opportunity for a possible song there and asked Kamal Haasan to give a chance to add one. But Kamal Haasan, being the writer-director of the film, didn’t see it. Then Ilaiyaraaja convinced Kamal Haasan to trust him with this and brought notable Hindustani singer Ajoy Chakrabarty to sing one of the most celebrated songs from the movie, “Isaiyil Thodanguthamma” and also writing the lyrics for the same.
As declared by Ilaiyaraja himself, during his show in Bangalore on 16 Nov 2019, his eldest son Kartik Raja had a major role in the song “Ramar Analum”/ “Chahe Pandit Ho” and that he was revealing this for the 1st time.
- “Hey! Ram”- Kamal Haasan, Shruti Haasan
- “Janmon Ki Jwala”- Asha Bhosle, Hariharan, Rani Mukherjee
- “Asa Ga Madan Ban Ghusla Kasa”- Anupama, Preeti Uttam
- “Sanyaas Mantra”- Kamal Haasan
- “Chahe Pandit Ho”- Jolly Mukherjee, Kamal Haasan, Hariharan
- “Prem Bann”- Preeti Uttam
- “Vaishnav Jana To”- Vibha Sharma
- “Har Koi Samjhe”- Ajoy Chakraborty
“Janmon Ki Jwala” Full Video Song :
- Song : “Janmon Ki Jwala”
- Singer : Asha Bhosle, Hariharan, Rani Mukherjee
- Music – Ilaiyaraaja
“Asa Ga Madan Ban Ghusla Kasa” Full Video Song :
- Song : “Asa Ga Madan Ban Ghusla Kasa”
- Singer : Anupama, Preeti Uttam
- Music – Ilaiyaraaja
Production :
- The shooting was started in Madhava Perumal Temple, Mylapore. Violinist L. Subramaniam was selected to work as the music composer and completed recording songs for the project. However, before finishing his entire commitment for the film, he left the project fearing that his association with the film may offend Hindu people due to its contentious storyline.Ilaiyaraaja was subsequently selected to replace him and helped score music over the version recorded by Subramaniam.His background score was recorded by a Symphony Orchestra for the second time for an Indian film, the first time being by Ilaiyaraaja himself three years before for the Malayalam epic Guru (1997).Like Subramaniam, the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, had also filmed an interview scene for the film but later requested that his portions were removed to avoid controversy.
- Actor Shah Rukh Khan did not ask for any remuneration from Kamal Haasan as he considered it an honour and privilege to work with one of his mentors.Haasan initially intended to title the film as Satya Sodanai, which loosely translates to My Experiments With Truth, the title of Gandhi’s autobiography.The role of Shriram Abhyankar played by Atul Kulkarni was supposed to be played by noted Marathi actor Mohan Gokhale; he had started working on film in Madras but suddenly he died due to heart attack in sleep, later Hassan roped Kulkarni another noted Marathi actor to do this role, becoming one of the best performance of his career.
- Production on the film cost a total of 11 crore rupees, excluding Kamal Haasan’s salary.
Release :
- The film was subsequently filmed in Tamil and Hindi, and dubbed in Telugu and Malayalam. The Tamil,Hindi and Malayalam version released on same date and the Telugu version remains unreleased due to the contentious story line.In Telugu version, Singer Mano dubbed for Kamal Haasan.
Controversies :
- There were protests and press releases by political parties in select centres against perceived negative depiction of Gandhi. In India the film was given an ‘A’ certificate by the Central Board of Film certification. In Malaysia, it was rated as Universal.
Hey Ram Movie Review :
This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.9 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 11112.
I had heard that Kamal Hassan was a good actor, so I decided to check out Hey Ram. I knew nothing of the plot (best way to see a movie; no expectations…) and I must admit I was emotionally overwhelmed by the end of it.
Kamal Hassan is an amazing actor who is not only passionate about his work but also about his country. And what a pleasure to see Shah Rukh in a minor part.
Hey Ram is a film that every American actor, writer, and director should study. Few American films have had such an effect on me. I highly recommend it.
Critics Rating by Gaurav Kumar, from Times Of India give 3.5 star out of 5 Star.
Hey Ram Movie Box Office Collection :
INDIA
| Schedule | Amount (in Crores) |
|---|---|
| Opening Day | 0.44 Crores |
| End of Opening Weekend | 1.31 Crores |
| End of Week 1 | 2.39 Crores |
| India box office Nett | 5.32 Crores |
| India box office Gross | 7.39 Crores |
| Overseas Gross | 2.47 Crores |
| Worldwide collections Gross | 9.86 Crores |
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