Gandhi (DVD)

My next review although is for a film, I am proud to be writing about, its not only based on a true story, but also has a significant impact on my heritage, and moreover important for many Indians all over the world. This review is on the 1982, Academy award winning film "Gandhi", directed by Richard Attenborough and starring the magnificent Ben Kinsely as Mahatma Gandhi. I saw this film as a young boy growing up, my parnets made me watch it one day because they felt it had such an important aspect of history associated with it, being born in London I at the time didn't no much about my heritage and the history of India, although I knew the British occupied it ...

Gandhi is one of those films that I've been meaning to watch for a long time, a film labelled as a classic, so I decided to rent the DVD and see what I was missing. The film is directed by Richard Attenborough and starred Ben Kingsley in the role of Gandhi. The film starts by showing Gandhi's death, which is where the film also ends, and that sobering scene was never far from my mind throughout the entire film. After this is the scene of a rather almost arrogant Gandhi demanding that he has a right as a solicitor to sit where he wants on a South African train, before then getting thrown off. That scene alone portrays a man who never intended to ...

This is a magnificent epic film, produced and directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, which tells the story of one of History’s most remarkable and charismatic figures: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi…the Mahatma.The film stars Ben Kingsley in possibly his finest role, as Gandhi and a host of top names, including Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills and Martin Sheen.Released by Columbia Pictures, the film won eight Oscars in 1982. The film opens in New Delhi on January 30th 1948.Whilst leading prayers, the Mahatma is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. There follow scenes of international mourning, and a State funeral ...