Berlin – Actor Raghuvir Yadav, beloved in India, drew international raves for his role in the crowd pleaser Peepli Live–India’s submission in the 2011 Oscar race. Last winter, the film debuted during the Berlin International Film Festival, was well received at the Sundance, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and São Paulo film festivals, and opened around the globe. India has the largest film industry in the world, producing around 3,000 films per year.
The tremendous achievement of Slumdog Millionaire coupled with the international success of Shah Rukh Khan’s My Name is Kahn, and the warm reception of Bollywood films on television in large markets such as the German speaking markets in the European Union, has encouraged film distributors that India-produced films appeal to global audiences. Amrapali Media Vision hopes to tap into this goodwill with its debut movie, Dear Friend Hitler– which takes its name from two letters Mahatma Gandhi wrote the dictator in 1939 and 1940.
Yadav stars in this film set in India and Berlin during the final days of the second world war. Driven by three main storylines, the plot primarily centers on India’s struggle for independence after being part of the British empire for hundreds of years. Gandhi, in writing these letters immediately before and at the beginning of the second world war, used the standard written greeting of his time. The film uses these letters, and a few scenes set in the dictator’s bunker, as a catalyst to tell a broader story about Gandhi and India at a turning point in the 20th century. Yadav portrays the dictator in this film.
Dear Friend Hitler Film 