The narrative begins where most sequels fear to tread. Munna is still in love with the gentle radio jockey, Dr. Vaidya (Vidya Balan reprising her role from the last film, though with a different name). To impress her, Munna poses as a History professor, agreeing to give a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi.
The genius of the lies in its repackaging of Gandhi. For decades, Gandhi’s face was on currency notes and in dusty history textbooks. He was a marble statue that politicians garlanded and forgot. Hirani and co-writer Abhijat Joshi did the impossible: They made Gandhi cool. lage raho munna bhai film
The premise is delightfully absurd. Sanjay Dutt’s Munna Bhai, the muscle-bound, tender-hearted don of the Mumbai underworld, is asked by his sweetheart, the radio jockey Jhanvi (Vidya Balan), to participate in a quiz on Gandhi. Desperate to impress her, he kidnaps a bunch of university professors to feed him answers. In a fit of hallucinatory genius, he begins to see the Father of the Nation himself—a smiling, bare-bodied, bespectacled ghost who appears only to him. This is not the stoic, bronze-statue Gandhi of history textbooks. This Gandhi (a superb, wry Anupam Kher) is witty, pragmatic, and eerily patient. He becomes Munna’s spiritual Yoda, teaching him the weapons of Satyagraha (truth) and Ahimsa (non-violence) not for a freedom struggle, but for the mundane battles of everyday life: evicting a greedy builder, fixing a broken friendship, or winning a game of cricket. The narrative begins where most sequels fear to tread
Munna must help Jhanvi save "2nd Innings," a home for the elderly, from Lucky Singh , an unscrupulous builder. To impress her, Munna poses as a History
“ Mahatma Gandhi ko hazam karne mein mujhe 25 saal lage, tum toh radio pe sunke samajh gaye? ” (It took me 25 years to digest Gandhi, you understood it on the radio?) – Real Gandhi’s spirit to Munna