08 October,2025 08:26 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Hansal Mehta Pratik Gandhi
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has been giving hit series one after another. The actor-director duo, Pratik Gandhi and Hansal, have reunited for yet another iconic series, Gandhi. With the recent Gujarati podcast Lavari, the filmmaker made some hilarious revelations.
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta joins Manan Desai and Comedy Factory's special Lavari. As Manan gives an intriguing introduction to Hansal Mehta, he talks about the upcoming series Gandhi, starring Pratik Gandhi and Bhamini Oza as Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba. Hansal Mehta jokes, "Pratik and Bhamini are married, that is why it was easy to get the intimate scenes done." Listening to this, Deep said, "This would be a completely new angle to Gandhi's story if you are capturing it."
Further, while sharing about the series, Hansal yet again shared a funny trivia about Pratik Gandhi, 'People say Pratik Gandhi is a fantastic actor, he did amazingly well in Scam 1992, but who directed him? It was me.' He then quickly asked whether Pratik's manager was sitting in the audience and joked, 'We still want Pratik for the 2 more seasons of Gandhi.'
Hansal also shared a funny anecdote on how his name, from Hausal, got changed to Hansal. He revealed, 'My grandfather had kept my name Hausal, but the teachers in my school couldn't pronounce it and as they found it similar to Hansel and Gretel's hansel, the name changed to Hansal and since then it is Hansal Mehta.'
The premiere of Hansal Mehta's upcoming series Gandhi was met with a standing ovation at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), leaving lead actor Pratik Gandhi stunned.
Pratik, who plays Mahatma Gandhi, took to Instagram to share a series of photos and videos from the premiere, including one of the audience giving the series a standing ovation.
The series Gandhi, starring Bhamini Oza, Kabir Bedi, and Tom Felton, is based on Ramachandra Guha's novels Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World. The first season of the planned three-season series, which spans the years 1888 to 1915, was completed in August 2024.
Season one follows Gandhi's early years, beginning as a curious teenager in colonial India, progressing to a bashful law student in London, and finally to a young lawyer who spends 23 transformative years in South Africa.
