Who played 'Gandhi' in the film of the same name?
"funding needed to make the film. Screenwriter John Briley had introduced him to Jake Eberts, the chief executive at the new Goldcrest production company that raised approximately two-thirds of the film's budget. Shooting began on 26 November 1980 and ended on 10 May 1981. Some scenes were shot near Koilwar Bridge, in Bihar. Over 300,000 extras were used in the funeral scene, the most for any film according to ""Guinness World Records"". During pre-production, there was much speculation as to who would play the role of Gandhi. The choice was Ben Kingsley, who is partly of Indian heritage (his father"
"Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film ""Gandhi"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has appeared in ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Twelfth Night"" (1996), ""Sexy Beast"" (2000), ""House of Sand and Fog"" (2003), ""Lucky Number Slevin"" (2006), ""Shutter Island"" (2010), """" (2010), ""Hugo"" (2011), ""Iron Man 3"" (2013), ""The Boxtrolls"""
"Virendra Razdan died in Mumbai, India, on 13 June 2003, at the age of 53. Virendra Razdan Virendra Razdan (c. 1950 – 13 June 2003) was an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Maulana Azad, a leading figure of the Indian independence movement, in the 1982 biographical film ""Gandhi"" directed by Richard Attenborough. and for his role of statesman Vidura in the Indian television series ""Mahabharat"". He also played a supporting role in the Aditya Pancholi-starrer ""Zanjeer: The Chain"" (1998). Razdan's father was a Sufi musician. He studied acting and theater at the"
"Virendra Razdan Virendra Razdan (c. 1950 – 13 June 2003) was an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Maulana Azad, a leading figure of the Indian independence movement, in the 1982 biographical film ""Gandhi"" directed by Richard Attenborough. and for his role of statesman Vidura in the Indian television series ""Mahabharat"". He also played a supporting role in the Aditya Pancholi-starrer ""Zanjeer: The Chain"" (1998). Razdan's father was a Sufi musician. He studied acting and theater at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, where he was a student of Ibrahim Alkazi."
"""Mahayagya"", ""Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat Hai"", ""Teache"", ""Maayke Se Bandhi Dor"" and more. She played a special appearance in ""Chhal — Sheh Aur Maat"", which aired in the TV channel Colors. Rohini Hattangadi Rohini Hattangadi () (born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in ""Gandhi"" (1982). An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when"
"Ganda Hendathi Ganda Hendathi () (English: ) is a 2006 Indian Kannada erotic thriller film, directed by Ravi Shrivatsa and produced by Shailendra Babu. This film stars newcomers Vishal Hegde, Sanjjanaa and Thilak Shekar in lead roles. The film is a remake of Hindi hit film ""Murder"" (2004), starring Emraan Hashmi, Ashmit Patel and Mallika Sherawat. The film created huge controversies upon release for its excessive erotic scenes and content. The score and soundtrack was composed by Gurukiran for the lyrics of V. Manohar and Hrudaya Shiva. The story follows Simran (Sanjjana), a young woman married to Sudhir, a workaholic."
"practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. ""Gandhi"" was released in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December, and in the United States on 10 December. It was nominated for Academy Awards in eleven categories, winning eight, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough, Best Actor for Ben Kingsley, and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Briley. The film was screened retrospectively on 12 August 2016 as the ""Opening Film"" at the ""Independence Day Film Festival"" jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals"
"Rohini Hattangadi Rohini Hattangadi () (born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in ""Gandhi"" (1982). An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when she made her movie debut with ""Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan"" in 1978. Some of her noted cinematic roles were in such art films as ""Arth"" (1982), ""Party"" and ""Saaransh"" (1984). Hattangadi"
"Ganga (2015 film) Ganga () is a 2015 Indian Kannada drama film written and directed by Sai Prakash, and produced by Ramu. The film stars Malashri in the lead role. The supporting cast features Srinivasa Murthy, Pavithra Lokesh, Rangayana Raghu, Suchendra Prasad, Sharath Lohitashwa, and Hema Choudary. Having worked together in many successful films, with their last being the 1995 film, ""Gadibidi Aliya"", Malashri and Sai Prakash came together for a film after 19 years with ""Ganga"". For the film, Arjun Janya was roped in to compose the music, Anil Kumar for dialogue writing and Rajesh Katta for cinematography. The"
"Aandhi Aandhi (translation: Storm) is a 1975 Indian political drama film starring Sanjeev Kumar and Suchitra Sen, and directed by Gulzar. At the time it was alleged that the film was based on the life of the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her relationship with her estranged husband, but in reality, only the look was inspired by the politician Tarkeshwari Sinha and Indira Gandhi. The story is based on a chance meeting of an estranged couple after several years, when wife Aarti Devi, now a leading politician happens to stay in the hotel run by her husband during an election"
"Adhuri Kahani"", ""Chorus"", and ""Mrigayaa"". His biggest international role was that of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in Richard Attenborough's biographical epic ""Gandhi"". Casting director Dolly Thakore recommended Chatterjee for the role after seeing him onstage in Calcutta and noting that he shared Suhrawardy's large stature. In 1983, Chatterjee directed the film ""Vasundhara"", which was awarded as best Bengali film at the 31st National Film Awards. The Directorate of Film Festivals cited it for ""its sincere attempt to depict the struggle against social injustice"". Shekhar Chatterjee Shekhar Chatterjee (1924 — 6 April 1994) is an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was"
"Alyque Padamsee Alyque Padamsee (5 March 1928 – 17 November 2018) was an Indian theatre personality and ad film maker. He is probably best known in the English-speaking world for playing Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the film ""Gandhi"". Besides being involved in Indian theatre as an actor and producer, Padamsee was an advertising professional who once headed the advertising company Lintas Bombay. Padamsee was born in 1928 into a traditional Khoja Muslim Ismaili family hailing from the Kutch region of Gujarat. Their ancestors had belonged to the ""charan"" caste of bards and court musicians. The family had been settled in"
"Gunda (film) Gunda (English: Antagonist) is a 1998 Indian action film, directed by Kanti Shah. It stars Mithun Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi and Shakti Kapoor among many others. It was produced by Anil Shah, written by Bashir Babbar, and the musical score was provided by Anand Raj Anand. The film now has become rather a cult film in India, due to its absurd story line, over-the-top acting, cheesy 'rhyming' dialogues, which mostly are double-meaning and low production values. Gunda tells the story of an honest man who becomes the target of a vicious gang lord, after inadvertently interfering in a mission."
"Master Anand H. Anand, popularly known as ""Master Anand"" is a Kannada actor, comedian, director and television host who debuted as a child artist. His performance as Ganesha in the Kannada film ""Gauri Ganesha"" alongside Ananth Nag, Sihi Kahi Chandru and Ramesh Bhat is widely acclaimed. Anand began his career as a child artist in V Ravichandran directorail ""Kindarijogi"". It is notable that his name being credited with the prefix 'Master' throughout his career in childhood, which became a popular name and has been tagged with his name to date. His rise to fame was the character he played in"
"Gandhi Pirantha Mann Gandhi Pirantha Mann (English: ""Land where Gandhi born"") is a 1995 Tamil drama film directed by R. Sundarrajan. The film features Vijayakanth, Revathi and Ravali in lead roles. The film, produced by Tamil Fathima, had musical score by Deva and was released on 21 July 1995. The film turned out to be a failure at box office.It was also dubbed in Telegu as ""Rowdy Nayakudu"". Rukmani (Ravali) is pampered and brought up by her father Periyavar (Radha Ravi) and 4 uncles. Balu (Vijayakanth) manages to get married with Rukmani by hiding the truth. Balu tells her the"
"Maharshi Raghava Maharshi Raghava (born ""Raghava Gogineni"") is an Indian actor from Andhra Pradesh. He acted in more than 170 films in various roles. He shot into fame as a lead actor with his first film ""Maharshi"". The same film earned him the title ""Maharshi"". He also acted in TV serials. He studied till tenth standard in Tenali Thaluk High school. He also has stage experience. He played Mahatma Gandhi in a play called ""Gandhi Jayanthi"". He visited U.S.A multiple times along with Murali Mohan, Nandamuri Balakrishna, and Paruchuri Brothers. He was booked for allegedly abusing and threatening a Dalit"
"Gandu (film) Gandu is a 2010 Bengali-language Indian black-and-white art drama film directed by Qaushiq Mukherjee and Anuj Nimbria sirji. It features Anubrata, Joyraj, Kamalika, Silajit, and Rii in the lead roles. The film's music is by the alternative rock band Five Little Indians. ""Gandu"" previewed at Yale University before making its international premiere on 29 October 2010 at the 2010 South Asian International Film Festival in New York City. ""Gandu"" was an official selection at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and was also screened at the Slamdance Film Festival. ""Gandu"" has received mainly positive reviews from critics. John"
"Gandhigiri (film) Gandhigiri (Hindi: गांधीगीरी) is a 2016 Bollywood film starring Om Puri, Sanjay Mishra, Brijesh Karniwal, Anupam Shyam, Mukesh Tiwari, Dolly Chawla, Meghna Haldar, Rishi Bhutani, Ravi Singh and Ram Sujan Singh. The movie is directed by Sanoj Mishra, and produced by Aagaman films Pvt. Ltd. of Sudhir Jain & Pratap Singh Yadav. The film has begun shooting in Lucknow and Raebareli and a long schedule has been planned for the coming months in the states of Uttar Pradesh. Gandhigiri is produced by Aagman Films Pvt. Ltd. and directed by Sanoj Mishra. Singer - Ankit Tiwari, Sunidhi Chouhan, Mohammad"
"Gandha (film) Gandha (English: ""Smell"") is a 2009 Marathi Indian film. The film is directed by Sachin Kundalkar and produced by Ranjit Gugle under the banner Flashbulbs Ventures. The film blends three independent stories where the main characters of all stories go through experiences involving their sense of smell. The stories are written by Kundalkar and his mother Archana Kundalkar. Sachin Kuldalkar won Best Screenplay Award for the film at Pune International Film Festival. The film stars Girish Kulkarni and Amruta Subhash in the first story, Milind Soman and Sonali Kulkarni in the second story and Neena Kulkarni in the"
"Gandhada Gudi Gandhada Gudi (""Temple of Sandalwood"") is a 1973 Indian Kannada-language film directed by Vijay and produced by M. P. Shankar. The film stars Dr. Baba Sharuk (Rajkumar) is a range forest officer who goes to the Nagarhole National forest to protect the natural resources. His main rival is the poacher Anand (Vishnuvardhan) who unknown to him has been kidnapped and raised by Raja Venkatappa Naika (Balakrishna) to exact revenge on his father. In the final scenes, Anand gets hold of Kumar's mother and asks him to not interfere or that he will set fire to the forest. But"
"Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande (), also known by the abbreviated form SDGB, is an Indian feature film that marks the directing debut of Parvin Dabas and stars Anupam Kher and Sharat Saxena.Produced by Very Fishy Films, the film belongs to the genre of action comedy. It released on 19 August 2011. As per some news websites Parvin Dabas got the title of the film from Twitter. ""Sahi Dhandhe Galat Bande"" is the story of a gang composed of four friends: Rajbir (Parvin Dabas), Sexy (Vansh Bharadwaj), Ambani (Ashish Nayyar) and Doctor (Kuldeep Ruhil), who are given"
"film was written simultaneously along with another Gulzar film, ""Mausam"" (1975), which was also written by Bhushan Banmali and Gulzar. Along with ""Khushboo"", ""Aandhi"" also released in the same year; 1975 proving to be the most prolific for director-screenwriter Gulzar's career. The lead role of Aarti Devi was offered to actress Vyjayanthimala, who refused as she was fazed by physical resemblance of her character with Indira Gandhi. Later in 2011, she recounted ""Aandhi"" as one of few films she regretted not doing besides ""Mr and Mrs 55"" (1955) by Guru Dutt and ""Bandini"" (1963) by Bimal Roy, ""I admired Indiraji"
"Gandhi made his directorial debut with ""Kalavani Mappillai"" starring Attakathi Dinesh. Manivasagam Manivasagam (died 2001) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who worked on Tamil films. Manivasagam began his career with ""Namma Ooru Poovatha"" (1990) and continued to work on village action dramas, often collaborating with actor Sarath Kumar. He often produced his own films, and credited his wife, Rajeswari Manivasagam, as the chief producer. The failure of his film, ""Nadodi Mannan"" (1995), prompted the director to take a break from directing films. His final release was ""Mappillai Gounder"" (1997) which also opened to negative reviews and performed"
"filming of ""Ganga"" began on 6 June 2014 in Bangalore. Arjun Janya composed the film's background score and music for its soundtrack, with the lyrics penned by K. Kalyan. The soundtrack album consists of two tracks. Ganga (2015 film) Ganga () is a 2015 Indian Kannada drama film written and directed by Sai Prakash, and produced by Ramu. The film stars Malashri in the lead role. The supporting cast features Srinivasa Murthy, Pavithra Lokesh, Rangayana Raghu, Suchendra Prasad, Sharath Lohitashwa, and Hema Choudary. Having worked together in many successful films, with their last being the 1995 film, ""Gadibidi Aliya"", Malashri"
"Sanjjanaa Archana Galrani better known by her stage name Sanjjanaa Galrani, is an Indian model and film actress. She made her film debut in the Tamil-Telugu bilingual film ""Oru Kadhal Seiveer"" (2006), and soon known for her controversial role in the Kannada film ""Ganda Hendathi"" (2006). Her supporting role in the 2008 Telugu film ""Bujjigadu"" directed by Puri Jagannadh was her debut into the Telugu film industry. In 2017, she played Chandri in the bilingual crime drama ""Dandupalya 2"". Brought up in Bengaluru, Sanjjanaa is of Sindhi origin. When she was doing her PUC, she received her first modelling offer."
"Pooja Gandhi Pooja Gandhi (born Sanjana Gandhi in 1983) is an Indian film actress and producer. She has acted mainly in Kannada language films and also appears in Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi films. Gandhi, after starring in the commercially successful 2006 film ""Mungaru Male"", become one of the most popular and highest paid actresses in South Indian cinema and also the recipient of several awards. Gandhi popularly came to be known as 'Male Hudugi' (Rain Girl) in the media and Kannada film industry. Gandhi made her film debut in 2003 with a Bengali film ""Tomake Salam"" and Tamil film"
"Gandedhe Gandedhe () is a 2010 Indian Kannada language romantic action film written and directed by Akula Shiva and produced by Ramu of Ramu Enterprises. The film stars Chiranjeevi Sarja and Ragini Dwivedi in the lead roles. Noted composer Chakri scored the music. Krishna (Chiranjeevi) is a poor college going boy who falls in love with his classmate Nandini (Ragini). Nandini is the daughter of a rich landlord Shankare Gowda (Devaraj). Both fall in love and seeks approval from their parents. Nandini's father is much against the alliance and disapproves the relationship. The rest of the story deals with the"
"Ganga Ki Saugandh Ganga Ki Saugandh is a 1978 Hindi movie. Produced and directed by Sultan Ahmed, this film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Pran, I. S. Johar, Bindu and Anju Mahendru. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji and the dialogue by Wajahat Mirza. It became a box office hit. This movie is set in a village setting where Amjad Khan is a tyrant. Amitabh plays a very naive young man, and becomes a dacoit to avenge the death of his mother. Amitabh is thrown out of the village when he is unable to offer a satisfactory explanation for"
"Rajendra Gupta Rajendra Gupta (born 17 October 1947) is an Indian film, television and theatre actor and director who is best known for his television roles of Pandit Jagannath in the 1990s Doordarshan fantasy television series ""Chandrakanta"" and Sudha's father – Jagat Narayan – in the 1998–2001 Sony TV drama ""Saaya"". An alumnus of the National School of Drama (1972 batch), Gupta has worked in numerous television serials and films. He played the role of the ""Mukhiya"" (village headman) of Champaner in the Oscar-nominated 2001 film ""Lagaan"". He currently plays the role of Kesri Narayan in the TV serial ""Chidiya"
"(Gandhi) so much so that I got cold feet when the role was offered to me."" In the early 1960s, director Gulzar had approached Suchitra Sen, with screenplay for a film to be produced by Sohanlal Kanwar, however when she suggested some changes which Gulzar didn't agree upon, the film never got made. For film ""Aandhi"" producer J. Om Prakash insisted upon Gulzar to approach Sen again and actor Sanjeev Kumar was also keen on working with Sen. This time when the new script was done, Gulzar went to meet her in Kolkata, she agreed without any script issues, resulting"
"John Matthew Matthan John Mathew Matthan (also John Mathew Mathan/John Mathew) is an Indian filmmaker from the southern state of Kerala. He is known for his 1999 Bollywood film ""Sarfarosh"", starring Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah John started his career as an assistant director on the epic movie ""Gandhi"", directed by Sir Richard Attenborough. Also working on ""Gandhi"" was Govind Nihlani, who Matthan would later assist for several films before shifting to directing advertisements. In the early 1990s, Matthan started his own production company in Mahalaxmi, Mumbai called Cinematt Pictures Pvt Ltd. The company, which also involved Matthan's brother George,"
"Buddhivantha Buddhivantha (English: ""Genius""; also known as ""Buddhimanthudu"" in Telugu) is a 2008 Kannada language film starring Upendra and Pooja Gandhi in the lead roles. It was directed by Ramnath Rigvedhi. The film is a remake of the Tamil film ""Naan Avanillai"" which was itself based on the 1962 Marathi film ""To Mee Navhech"" (English: I Am Not He), written by Pralhad K. Atre and acted by Prabhakar Panshikar. The film was released on 26 September 2008. It was supposed to be released on Upendra's birthday, 18 September 2008, but because of the delay in censor certification, the date was"
"Guddi (1971 film) Guddi () is a 1971 Hindi drama film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Gulzar. It starred Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan and Utpal Dutt. It is Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri)'s career-making film in which she plays a schoolgirl obsessed with the actor Dharmendra, who plays himself. She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress, the only nomination for the film. Utpal Dutt also has a starring role. Many popular Bollywood actors like Rajesh Khanna, Naveen Nischol, Asrani, Amitabh Bachchan, Om Prakash and Pran gave guest appearances as themselves. The film became a ""big city hit"" and did"