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Gandhi is the eighth-highest Oscar winning film of all time – claiming eight awards from 11 nominations, including best film – although it almost never got made. The late director Richard Attenborough said of his tribulations in raising the funds for the film: "It took me 20 years to get the money to get that movie made. I remember my pitch to 20th Century Fox. The guy said: 'Dickie, it's sweet of you to come here. You're obviously obsessed. But who the f---ing hell will be interested in a little brown man wrapped in a sheet carrying a beanpole?' I would have loved to have met that guy after the Oscars and told him to f--- off."
Attenborough knew that he would be telling one of the 20th-century's most remarkable stories, that of the Indian lawyer who returned from racially segregated South Africa to drive the British out of his home country through successive acts of non-violent protest.
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Attenborough's stately film is in every sense of the word an epic and Ben Kingsley is superb as Mahatma Ghandi, ageing as he does 50 years during the three-hour film, and transforming from dapper young lawyer to loin-cloth wearing ascetic. It's recognised now, nearly seven years after his brutal assassination on January 30 1948, that Gandhi’s amazing achievement as a political leader in India was to create a new form of peaceful protest that could change history.
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We also know that some of the historical aspects of the film are dubious. For example, Patrick French, author of India: A Portrait, wrote in The Telegraph: "An important origin of one myth about Gandhi was Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film. Take the episode when the newly arrived Gandhi is ejected from a first-class railway carriage at Pietermaritzburg after a white passenger objects to sharing space with a “coolie” (an Indian indentured labourer). In fact, Gandhi’s demand to be allowed to travel first-class was accepted by the railway company. Rather than marking the start of a campaign against racial oppression, as legend has it, this episode was the start of a campaign to extend racial segregation in South Africa. Gandhi was adamant that “respectable Indians” should not be obliged to use the same facilities as “raw Kaffirs”. He petitioned the authorities in the port city of Durban, where he practised law, to end the indignity of making Indians use the same entrance to the post office as blacks, and counted it a victory when three doors were introduced: one for Europeans, one for Asiatics and one for Natives."
That should not spoil the film, though, which begins with his assassination and flashes back to the key moments in a 30-year struggle. While Kingsley (who won one of the eight Oscars) is the glue that holds this film together, there are fine performances from John Gielgud, Edward Fox, John Mills, Martin Sheen and Roshan Seth as Gandhi's protégé and future leader Pandit Nehru.
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Gandhi movie is about
The pivotal moments in the life of Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), the revered Indian leader who resisted British colonial power, are depicted in this famous biographical drama. Gandhi, who champions the idea of nonviolent resistance, is initially scorned by English officials, especially the powerful Lord Irwin (John Gielgud), but over time, he and his cause gain international recognition, and his demonstrations of passive protest help lead India into freedom.
Gandhi stands for:
His nonviolent resistance contributed to the overthrow of British rule in India and has had an impact on contemporary civil disobedience movements around the world. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma, which is Sanskrit for "great soul" or "saint," contributed to India's independence by adhering to the nonviolent non-cooperation stance.
Gandhi movie based on true story
The fictional journalist Vince Walker (Martin Sheen), whom Gandhi first encounters in South Africa and then again during the Salt March, was inspired by real-life American war correspondent Webb Miller, who did not personally encounter the actual Gandhi in South Africa but whose coverage of the march on the was published.
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