Gandhi
This acclaimed biographical drama presents major events in the life of Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), the beloved Indian leader who stood against British rule over his country. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
23 March 1921, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
5 January 1943, Rosenheim, Germany
17 December 1944, Manchester, England, UK
22 April 1923, Ardwick, Manchester, England, UK
8 January 1929, Malerkotla, Punjab, British India
28 May 1932, Toronto, Canada
29 June 1928, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
1943, Birmingham, England, UK
3 October 1911, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
16 November 1927, Satara, Bombay Presidency, British India
1 September 1923, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
26 December 1922, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
1946, Coventry, England, UK
17 June 1951, Bombay, State of Bombay, India
12 March 1947
24 November 1943, Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK
6 July 1950, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK
November 22, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA
January 13, 2014
Above all, Kingsley's astonishing performance, capturing both Gandhi's divine light and his irresistible simplicity, inspires this ambitious film.
February 20, 2013
Attenborough shows once again his skill in managing the big set-piece.
February 20, 2013
While Kingsley (who took one of eight Oscars) is the glue that holds this epic piece together, you must relish a cast that includes John Gielgud, Edward Fox, John Mills, Martin Sheen and Roshan Seth.
February 22, 2016
The inability to capture moments of simple, uncomplicated emotion show up the hollowness and over-staged theatricality of Richard Attenborough's Gandhi with exasperating frequency.
January 29, 2008
Once in a long while a motion picture so eloquently expressive and technically exquisite comes along that one is tempted to hail it as being near perfect.
February 28, 2017
The movie aims primarily to demonstrate how such a man could accomplish so much, but also how monumental his task was and how it ultimately claimed his life
December 17, 2006
Attenborough's work lacks even the undercurrent of personality that David Lean brought to his films: the film has no flavor but that of the standard Hollywood hagiography.
February 17, 2015
They simply do not build movies like this any more, which is a pity.
January 13, 2014
Tthe film Gandhi is more stuffy than stately, more prestigious than prodigious. It never quite captures the essence of Gandhi, or the influence he exerted on other leaders, including Martin Luther King. It's a broad but shallow river of information.
February 24, 2010
In playing Gandhi, an actor must be less concerned with physical verisimilitude than with spiritual presence, and here Kingsley is nothing short of astonishing.
June 24, 2006
Its faults rather pale beside the epic nature of its theme, and Kingsley's performance in the central role is outstanding.
May 06, 2017
Grievously doting and squeamishly evasive.
