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Hansal Mehta Seeks Canadian Visa Help Days Before TIFFGandhi’ Premiere

He says passports were lodged nearly three weeks ago, leaving little time before the planned September 6 TIFF screening.

Hansal Mehta reunited with Pratik Gandhi for his project, Gandhi.
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Overview

  • Hansal Mehta asked the Canadian High Commission in India on X for assistance, saying there is still no sign of visas for his team.
  • His post noted they are about 10 days from the world premiere and that passports were submitted nearly three weeks earlier.
  • The series is slated to debut in TIFF’s Primetime lineup and is reported as the first Indian long-form series in that program.
  • TIFF runs September 4–14, with Mehta indicating the first public screening of Gandhi is scheduled for September 6.
  • The show stars Pratik Gandhi with Bhamini Oza as Kasturba Gandhi and adapts Ramachandra Guha’s biographies, following Mehta and Gandhi’s prior collaboration on Scam 1992.