20 Facts About Hey Ram

Hey Ram is a 2000 Indian period crime drama film written, directed and produced by Kamal Haasan, who stars.

Hey Ram is being taken care of by his grandson who is a famous novelist who writes historical fiction, and their family doctor, Munawar.

The younger Hey Ram explains how he grew up listening to his grandfather's stories and proceeds to narrate one of his grandfather's strange stories that he plans to use for his next novel.

Hey Ram manages to find Altaf, who begs for mercy, although Ram kills him.

Hey Ram continues to shoot at Muslims committing violence in the streets until he runs into Shriram Abhyankar, a Thanjavur Marathi who is leading a group of a Hindus.

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Hey Ram is then married to the daughter of family friends, Mythili.

Back in newly independent India, Hey Ram begins to prepare to assassinate Gandhi once he returns to Madras.

However, Hey Ram has made up his mind to kill Gandhi and leaves Mythili, traveling to Varanasi where he goes through a purification and renouncement ritual.

Later on, Hey Ram goes to the soda factory in Chandni Chowk in order to retrieve his gun.

In Chandni Chowk, Hey Ram is reunited with Amjad, who takes him to the soda factory.

When it is discovered that Hey Ram came there for a gun, the Muslims, suspicious that he might be out to kill them, attack him.

Hey Ram reveals that his father did not die of natural causes, but was murdered by a Hindu mob and asks Ram to ebb his hatred.

Hey Ram learns that his uncle and elder sister have died after learning he has left.

Gandhi requests to see Hey Ram to invite him on his long walk to Pakistan after finding out he helped save innocent Muslims.

Hey Ram decides against assassinating the leader, and attempts to confess the truth to him in order to beg for forgiveness.

Hey Ram did not ask for any remuneration from Haasan, as he considered it an honour and privilege to work with one of his mentors.

Haasan initially considered having British actor Ben Kingsley, who portrayed Gandhi in a 1982 film, to reprise the role in Hey Ram but dropped the idea as he felt "it would be cliched and the film wouldn't be honest".

Hey Ram later approached Naseeruddin Shah, who portrayed Gandhi in a play.

The background music and the songs were recorded in Hungary's Budapest Symphony Orchestra and thus Hey Ram became the first Tamil film and the second Indian film to be re-recorded with a foreign symphony orchestra.

Hey Ram was released simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi on 18 February 2000.