ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together an assemblage of perspectives exploring cinematic memories premised on the enunciations of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948) and Gandhian values in post-independence Hindi films. These cinematic enunciations serve as a rich archive of images to reinterpret Gandhi’s various versions and archetypes in the contemporary world. Attending to Gandhi’s uncanny presence as “psychoanalytical listening” based on the Hindi films’ interpretations, the chapter aims to explore the spectator’s ethical task in excavating and deconstructing the contents of the cinematic texts.
