Monumental moments captured in 70mm

Rating: 10/10 (25 July 2006)

Gandhi is one of the last films of its day prior to the industry going so high-tech, that was forced to using real landscapes and tens of thousands of extras. The movie is given a perfect 10 score here in part due to logistics, one of the most non-understood elements by critics and audiences, who have taken movie production completely for granted in today's age where scenery is created not on sets, but on computers. That said, it gains only 1 mark of 10 for this. I reserve the balance score for the performance of Ben Kingsley, who was hands-down winner of Best Actor for 1982, and the tremendous effort to movie making brought forth by Richard Attenborough.
This film is shot in the tradition of Lawrence of Arabia, or The Greatest Story Ever Told, or 10 Commandments, or even Gone With the Wind. It is a true epic. My biggest fear is the movie's message has lost all meaning today, or worse, that it is re-made.