There's more of the cheeky lingo which the spectators consume with a reciprocal audacity. Like when Gandhi is criticised for placating Muslim League's Shahdeed Suhrawardi, active protagonist of the infamous Direct Action Day (a euphemism for rioting): "Suhrawardi jaise saanp ke kandhe ko lathi banane wala mahatma kaise ho sakta hai (how can one who leans on Suhrawardi be a mahatma)?" The audience is at its cockiest when a character holds Gandhi responsible for all ills facing India: "It's our tragedy the destroyer of Hindu rashtra is a Hindu himself." More thumping approval. The laughter is the loudest when an old man tells Gandhi: "Apne desh ko barbad kar diya, buddhon ki tarah aapko bhi Himalaya jana chahiye" (You've destroyed the nation. Better retire to the Himalayas). Gandhi was never so easily dismissed.