Mahatma Gandhi Movie Essay

No man`s life can be encompassed in one telling
There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a life time. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record and try to find one`s way to the heart of the man …
Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film Gandhi starts off with these lines. Although the director starts by saying that it’s impossible to encompass a man`s life in one telling, still the movie presents a comprehensive and mostly chronological account of the life of the Mahatma, M. K. Gandhi. The film gives a clear picture of Gandhi from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his assassination at the age of seventy-nine.
Ben Kingsley, the Anglo-Indian actor and the then member of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, looks astonishingly like Gandhi. But the performance is

The similarity of South African and Indian landscapes may have made the director to choose to film them both in India. The film was shot all around the country, most of the events where shot in the regions where the event originally took place like Champaran in Bihar, Amritsar in Punjab, Birla house in New Delhi and so on. Apart from India the movie was also filmed in the UK. Both of these locations in “Gandhi” were depicted realistically with the appropriate buildings, architectural features, landscapes, and climate.
The film takes place between the years 1898 and 1947. Even though the film covers a long time span, the props used in the movie were carefully suited to the time period. These props were even historically accurate. For example, the camera used by Martin Sheen’s character in the beginning of the film was quite old-fashioned and complicated compared to the one used later by Candace Berman’s character, Margaret Bourke-White, as she interviews Gandhi at the end of his