The American Gandhi is about what happens when money, power and globalization become unhinged from morality and justice? What happens when only the top one-percent of a population controls governance of the whole and exploits common opportunity? Why is terrorism a business, hiding itself under the context of religion and politics? The American Gandhi is a movie based on a true story. It attempts to answer these questions through its portrayal of Illegal mining in rural India, and has been made to create awareness about the need to expose similar stories within global societies.