The Most Famous Indian in History Now Has a TV Series Featuring 'Harry Potter' Legend Tom Felton

Summary

Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with the cast of Gandhi at TIFF 2025.
The series explores the historical visionary’s life in a whole new way.
The group discuss the importance of the series, composing the soundtrack, and Felton comments on the HBO Max Harry Potter series.

Before he became the Mahatma, Mohandas Gandhi’s life was filled with questions that are profoundly human — questions of identity, ambition, and the pursuit of justice. Filmmaker Hansal Mehta and producer Sameer Nair have adapted Ramachandra Guha’s acclaimed biographies Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World into Gandhi, a series that reframes the civil rights leader’s story into one for the screen.

Led by Pratik Gandhi (no relation), the first season follows a young Gandhi in India, newly married to Kasturba (Bhamini Oza Gandhi, his real-life spouse), as he dreams of studying law abroad. In London, his worldview is broadened through friendships like that with Josiah Oldfield (Tom Felton, the Harry Potter franchise), which sets him on a path to becoming one of history’s most enduring symbols of resilience and humanitarianism.

At the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with stars Gandhi, Felton, Oza, and Oscar and Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman, who created the original score for the show, for their pilot of Gandhi. You can watch the conversation in the video above, indexed below.

00:32 – The team discusses Gandhi’s massive impact on India.
02:08 – Pratik Gandhi shares the importance of taking on this role and how the series explores a new facet of the historical figure.
04:34 – Felton explains why he wanted to be a part of this project.
05:42 – What was the Vegetarian Society?
06:26 – Oza discusses playing the wife of her real-life husband, Pratik Gandhi, in the show.
09:42 – Rahman shares why he wanted to compose for the series.
13:33 – The group talks about their experience premiering the first two episodes at TIFF.
13:53 – Felton discusses portraying Harry Potter’s Draco on stage.
15:33 – Felton comments on HBO Max’s Harry Potter series.

Gandhi Season 1 has not set an official release date.

Special thanks to the partners Roxstar Entertainment and its Campari Cinema Center and Campari, who featured their signature festival red-carpet drinks, including the Campari Negroni and Campari Spritz. Also host venue, Discreta Toronto, and Oscar-winning visual effects (VFX) company, Rodeo FX, as well as Lavazza Coffee, Vellamo mineral water, Santa Carolina’s Reserva Chilean Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon wines, La Vieille Ferme Rosé and La Vieille Ferme Reserve Brut Sparkling, Peroni beer, and food catering by Miss Ivy Toronto @Cinemactr.