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Celebrating the Last Mile of the #Mahatma - *Road to Sangam* (2009)

Everyone knows the *Mahatma*, the *naked fakir* who once addressed the House of Commons, in nothing but a loincloth! A man who sacrificed his whole life, just for India, to see the daylight of Independence, against an empire that once took pride in ruling half of the world. 👑 The Mahatma wished that once he lost his life, that his ashes be segregated in separate urns and immersed across 12 riverbed locations across India. 🍃💦 #RoadtoSangam thrives on the last wishes of an internationally acclaimed figure. 😇 👥 The movie, resting on the shoulders of *Paresh Rawal*, takes the *immersion of the#Mahatma's ashes* as the main theme and weaves a *soul touching story* around it.  Playing the character of *Hashmat Ali*, a car mechanic in Allahabad, the museum authorities get in touch with him, to repair, rewire and rejig the engine of a #FordV8, which would be used to carry the ashes of the #Mahatma towards the Ganges. 🙏 💧 The movie thrives on the #HinduMuslim b...