At a loss of words....!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2010)

Making a film on a personality who has not only shaped the destiny of India but also showed the world that War is always not the way....violence breeds violence...An eye for an eye would make the entire world blind. Being an Indian I was always skeptical of a foreigner making a movie about Gandhiji, about the treatment about the originality but all fears were banished when I saw this. I remember as a kid being dragged to the screening of this movie, which I saw very unwillingly, no songs, no fights I actually hated being there. Over the years I have grown up with this movie, periodic telecasts on the national network on his birthdays etc.
What can I say, the acting, the sets, the story , the directing...is par excellence. Ben Kingsley is Gandhi.It is a monumental effort which attempts to trace the evolution of a barrister in South Africa in creased shirt and trousers to the Mahatma in khadi who taught not only the British and the Indians but the entire world that we all are bound with one thread and that is humanity.
Thank you Richard Attenborough....!!!