New place, new food and new energy being discovered by a group of familiar people—that is how Pratik Gandhi describes his stay in the UK, when we get on a call with him. Over the past two months, the actor and filmmaker Hansal Mehta have been shooting Gandhi in the UK. Based on historian Ramachandra Guha’s books Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World, the biographical drama chronicles the life of Mahatma Gandhi and unravels the complex man behind the renowned leader.

Pratik Gandhi shot to fame with Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992