Film on ‘Frontier Gandhi’ to be release in the US

A new documentary film detailing the life of Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as the “The Frontier Gandhi” for his espousal of non-violent means for political change in the region, will premiere in the US next month. ‘The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace’ was directed by filmmaker and writer T C McLuhan, daughter of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who says she spent 21 years to bring Khan’s story to the screen. Sixty-year-old McLuhan made numerous trips to Afghanistan and other places linked to Khan’s life even as American bombs fell in Taliban-held Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks and through the dangerous times that followed to shoot the film, the Los Angeles Times reported. She filmed in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan’s...

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