Gandhi to Hitler/ Dear Friend Hitler

Gandhi To Hitler or Dear Friend Hitler directed by Rakesh Ranjan Kumar. Dear Friend Hitler (domestic title Gandhi to Hitler) is a multilingual Indian drama film based on letters written by Mahatma Gandhi to the leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler. The film, starring Raghubir Yadav as Adolf Hitler and Neha Dhupia as Eva Braun.

In 1939 - A world plagued with unrest and upheaval. Adolf Hitler's ruthless ambition for German expansion in Eastern Europe is becoming increasingly violent and inhuman. Whereas another nation, India, struggles in its fight for freedom against the British as the idealistic Mahatama Gandhi continues to appeal to his countrymen to adopt a stand of non-violence. A stark contrast in ideologies even with an eventual common opponent, Gandhi one day decides to pen a letter to the German dictator... a letter he hoped would persuade Hitler to change his path and avoid the Second World War, avoid the massive calamity that it would bring on.

Gandhi then wrote a second letter to Hitler, this time closer to Hitler's own downfall, at a time when Hitler was plagued with betrayal all around him while confined to an underground bunker. We witness a contrast in the ideologies of these two leaders and the eminent result of Hitler's brutal and catastrophic methods.

Gandhi to Hitler looks at Hitler's downfall, his last days when only his love Eva Braun and his trusted aide Joseph Goebbels stood by him, as Germany crumbled around him and his trusted comrades deserted him; and through the central young couple Balbir and Amrita we see that the fate of many was determined by the ideology that they chose to adopt. The film establishes the superiority of Gandhism over Nazism, thereby giving the message of world peace.


International Title : Dear Friend Hitler
Director : Rakesh Ranjan Singh
Cast : Raghuvir Yadav, Neha Dhupia, Avijit Dutt, Naseer Abdullah, Aman Verma, Nalin Singh, Lucky Vakharia, Nikita Anand, Bhupesh Kumar Pandey
Creative Consultant : Imtiaz Ali
Producer : Dr. Anil Kumar Sharma
Banner : Amrapali Group
Music By : Arvind-Lyton
Lyrics By : Dr. Pallavi Mishra
Release Date : July 29, 2011