IBN-CNN reports: Mahatma Gandhi played baseball during a top secret visit to the USA in 1933—hold on! this is not historical fact but the fiction of a film.
Gandhi at the Bat shows the Mahatma playing for the New York Yankees, but US President Franklin D Roosevelt ensures that the trip is kept secret in national interest. However, long after the visit, baseball historians are intrigued by stories about a mysterious pinch hitter.
The film, touted as a mocumentary, has been made by Los Angeles-based Alec Boehm and Stephanie Argy and comes from the production house Mental Slapstick.
The filmmakers plan to take the film to the festival circuit and it can also be found in the Web site www.gandhiatthebat.com .
So we can now watch the Mahatma as he gets on the baseball diamond in sepia tones and flickering motion. And Gandhi, though in real history went to bat with great success for India. But, as a person with a great sense of humour, he probably would also have enjoyed the spoof.
2 comments:
hehehehe.. yeah , had gone through it this evening. funny one. wonder what the entire story was. Am sure we are going to have a few nataks over this back home in india and few more effigies of bush shall go down!
Long live america
I won't be surprised to see RSS' proteges being in the fore-front of this 'nautanki'. If this happens it would be even more hilariously ironical than Gandhi actually playing baseball.
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