Thursday, August 6, 2009

Gandhi - Richard Attenbrough (1982)







This 1982 biographical movie on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi shows his movement against British colonial rule in India. Director Richard Attenbrough and Ben Kingsley as Gandhi , won Academy Awards for their work for the movie. It also won Academy Award for best Picture.It won Eight Academy Awards in total.
The Movie starts with Gandhi's assassination by Nathuram Godse and his funeral which is attended by great personalities of the world.Then the movie moves 55 years back to show the famous train incident which changed Gandhi's life. Then he starts the struggle in South Africa and successfully winning the movement he moves to India. There also he started several movements including the famous Dandi March.
In the end he is not ready with dividing of India of communal lines as he thought that it would make a riotous situation in the country and was proved right later.

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