Delhi, India – Amrapali Media Vision announces Dear Friend Hitler, a film about Mahatma Gandhi–that derives its name from two letters Gandhi wrote to Adolf Hitler prior to and during World War II, will be previewed February 13 during a special event and available for sale during the 2011 European Film Market. The film, which the Times of India calls a ‘curtain raiser’ was shot entirely in India. With a budget of more than 3 million dollars, it is one of India’s most expensive independent productions to date.
In 1939 Gandhi composed a letter to Hitler, using the standard greeting of the time. Through his first letter, dated summer 1939, Gandhi sought to prevent the upcoming violence. Dear Friend Hitler set during the final days of the second world war visualizes the ideological clash between Mahatma Gandhi and Hitler and presents Gandhi’s ideologies of peace, non-violence and equality.
Raghuvir Yadav (Salaam Bombay!, Lagaan) plays the dictator
About Amrapali Media Vision
Amrapali Group is a vibrant conglomerate based in India that has expanded vertically and horizontally into new industries, outside its core areas of real estate development, and into areas such as processed food products, hotels and hospitals. Amrapali Group is now entering into the field of entertainment via Amrapali Media Vision.
Dear Friend Hitler Film 