Bollywood movie, Hey Ram, written and directed by Kamal Hassan was released on February 18, 2000. The movie starred Kamal Hassan, Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee in lead roles while Hema malini, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Atul Kulkarni, Vasundhara Das, Arun bali, Yatin Karyekar, Prachi Shah, Iravati Harshe, Vikram Ghokle, Saurabh shukla and Showkar Janki also played impotanat roles in the film. The hit music of the film was directed by the well known music director Illayaraja while the songs were rendered by Hariharan, Anupama Deshpande, Preeti Uttam, Asha Bhonsle and Ajay Chakraborthy.

The movie starts with a guy named Saketh Ram ( Kamal Hassan ), who living a happy life alongwith his beautiful bengali wife, Aparna Ram ( Rani Mukherjee ). Roiting is reported in the city because of the muslim community demanding the seperate country for themselves at the time when Britishers were deciding to leave India in the year 1946. Saketh goes out of his home to get some food. He rescues a Hindu women who was being molested by some muslim roiters. However, roiters later come to his home and brutally rapes and kills his wife in front of him. Saketh seeks revenge from the whole Muslim community and kills as many Muslim guys as he can can find outside.

He then meets with a guy named Sriram Abhiyankar ( Atul Kulkarni ), who is the leader of a small group of Hindu extremists. Saketh is then get married to another women named Mythili ( Vasundhara Das ). He then meets with one of his childhood friend, who is now facing a very big problem in his life. He is determined to help his friend at any cost. Meanwhile, because of his proposal, Gandhi, becomes the prime target of both Muslim roiters and the extremists. What is the role of Saketh in these circumstances and how he is related to Mahatama Gandhi?

The hit songs of the movie are:

1. Chaahe pandit ho chaahe qazi
2. Janmon ki jwala thi tan mein
3. Vaishnav jan to
4. Akashe jyotsna
5. Har koi samjhe