Don't feel like it is a Krishna Vamshi movie. Way way way below "Chandamama" standards. Looked like some balaya movie. Too many close up shots - maan... could not watch it. Script very wayward and felt like the director could not handle it. Mass song was directed horribly, all songs are badly directed. songs are very bad - all are Tamil copy/dub songs. Srikanth ok ok. Heroine good but could have looked more beautiful. Gandhi angle is good but could have been better. Unrealistic gandhi sentiment. Politicians shown too cruel and senseless. Had lot of expectations and was utterly disappointed. Basically not worth watching in a theater.
Making a movie about Gandhi's ideals, using gore for 95% of it - both physical violence and violence of the thought - is as unimaginative as teaching your bully of a child to not hit his classmates, by giving him a sound spanking. It is probably effective, but if you stop and think a little, you'll reason out that it doesn't make sense.
Mahatma is simply the story of a rowdy sheeter who reforms during the last half hour of a movie of 2.5 hours. That is, after what can technically be called an item song that revolves around the father of the nation - a song that, we must admit, does ....