Newsweek: “Sweeping sets and colourful costumes create an emotionally charged piece that occasionally verges on melodrama but is also sprinkled with "genuine moments of comedy". Shefali Shah, who plays Gandhi's wife, Kasturba, and Bhumika Chawla as Harilal's wife, Gulab, give powerful performances as women caught in the cross-fire between father and son, it added. Bollywood star Akshaye Khanna, who lost 20kg for the part, delivers a fine performance as the harrowed Harilal, stumbling from "pillar to post, bottle to brothel,".
LA Weekly: “The premise is intriguing: the terrifying downside of having one of the greatest visionaries in human history as your old man. A first feature written and directed by theater veteran Feroz Abbas Khan, and produced as a “home production” by the great Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor (Mr. India), Gandhi, My Father radiates sincerity. It’s a beautifully shot and staged period reconstruction, and is at times impressively acted, at least in the secondary roles”.
This Is London: “Gandhi My Father, which includes newsreel footage of the time, is very decently acted but ponderous in places as if the retelling of such a piece of history has placed a certain caution on the writer-director. At least it avoids most of the clichés of Bollywood.”
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