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...through one of the archbishop's aides. "Morality is the church's business, fine," says Tiongson. "But this was meddling in the state." He resigned last Tuesday and was replaced by Alejandro Roces, 76, a former education secretary, who told TIME that the last decent movie he saw was Gandhi. He added, "The ones done before the war (that's WWII), now they were really good...
...This dramatic life, marked by audacious leaps and deep disappointments, great statesmanship and eventual political marginalization, is natural material for a bio-pic. Though there have been major international movies about Gandhi and Jinnah, Ambedkar has been ignored. Indian filmmaker Jabbar Patel has redressed that neglect with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (that's what his followers call him), an exhaustive three-hour-long English-language docu-drama, with a moving and memorable lead performance by south Indian actor Mammootty...
...tussle between Ambedkar and Gandhi for the leadership of the untouchables takes up a good part of the film. The problem was more than just a clash of personal ambitions. Gandhi was a conservative reformer against untouchability, but he valued the Hindu caste system and opposed inter-caste marriages until two years before his 1948 assassination. Ambedkar, by contrast, wanted radical change. He believed that untouchables could not be emancipated until the caste system was altogether destroyed. "There will be outcastes as long as there are castes," he declared...
...pair's greatest conflict occurred in 1932 when, thanks to Ambedkar's lobbying, the British agreed to grant communal electorates to untouchables separate from the Hindus. Gandhi went on a fast in a Pune prison opposing that decision, which he saw as a division of Hindu voters. But Ambedkar bargained hard, and the Mahatma agreed to a historic compromise?instead of separate electorates, a specified number of seats in provincial and national legislative bodies were reserved exclusively for untouchables, a reservation system that is still used in India to ensure a voice for untouchables in India's parliament...
...government jobs, and Ambedkar has been resurrected as their rallying symbol. Patel's film on Ambedkar is drawing large Dalit audiences, and the screenings are like political carnivals. The audience identifies completely with the hero, cheers him wildly at every opportunity and hurls insults at his opponents?especially Gandhi. Many watch the film with tears in their eyes...