Hey Ram - moments of tenderness

Movie
German title	Hey Ram - moments of tenderness
Original title	हे राम ; ஹே ராம்; Hey Ram
Country of production	India
original language	Tamil , Hindi
Publishing year	2000
length	186 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
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Director	Kamal Hassan
script	Kamal Hassan
production	Kamal Hassan
music	Ilaiyaraaja
camera	Tirru
cut	Renu Saluja
occupation
	Kamal Hassan : Saketh Ram; Shahrukh Khan : Amjad Ali Khan; Rani Mukerji : Aparna Ram; Vasundhara Das : Mythili Iyengar; Hema Malini : Ambujam Iyengar; Girish Karnad : Uppilli Iyengar; Naseeruddin Shah : Mahatma Gandhi; Om Puri : Goel;

Hey Ram - moments of tenderness ( Hindi : हे राम , he Rām ) is a Hindi - Drama of Kamal Hassan from the year 2000 .

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The film opens with the 89-year-old South Indian Brahmin Saketh Ram, who remembers the past from 1946.

As a young man, Saketh Ram worked with his friend, the archaeologist Amjad Ali Khan, and his boss Mortimer Wheeler in Mohenjodaro . His wife Aparna from Kolkata lives amid the turmoil and chaos of India's impending independence. Saketh and his wife visit Kolkata despite rioting. Saketh goes out to eat and soon sees a Hindu woman who is being persecuted by Muslim rioters. He saves her, but soon the rioters come to his house, rape and kill his wife. Saketh is devastated. He kills the men who raped and killed his wife.

He meets Sriram Abhiyankar who leads a group of Hindu extremists. He remarries, but his great love remains Aparna. With his new wife Mythili his life begins to normalize again. On a trip he meets Sriram Abhiyankar again and becomes part of an extremist group. He and other Hindus are angry with Gandhi because he wants a peaceful solution and they lack patience. Abhiyankar has an accident and demands that Ram continue Abhiyankar's work of killing Gandhi.

Saketh believes Mahatma Gandhi is to blame for the partition of India . Hindu fundamentalists, including Ram, plan to kill Gandhi. However, after several incidents that led to Amjad's death, Saketh changes his mind about Gandhi. He decides against Gandhi's murder. Mahatma Gandhi is later killed by another assassin.

Saketh lives according to Gandhi's principles. 89-year-old Saketh learns of a bomb explosion in the city due to civil unrest and is taken to an underground shelter. There he dies.