Gandhi (1982) (2-Disc Set; 25th Anniversary Edition)

Might Be The Best Ever.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 30, 2002 | 1 out of 1 found this Gandhi (1982) review helpful

Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Director (Richard Attenborough). The DVD is a must.

Gandhi 2001 DVD of 1991 VHS

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 28, 2006

Pros: Kingsley couldn't have played a better portrayal of India's most beloved 20th century figure.

Cons: I can't think of any!

The film Gandhi is more a docu-drama since actual film footage from the 1930's and 1940's Satyagrahi (truth and justice seeker) movement founded by Mohandas K. Gandhi became a truth-force for British imperialism and supremacism to reckon with.... The film accurately depicts the life and nonviolent civil rights works of one of India's most important historical figures of the 20th century. It starts with the young lawyer Mohandas Gandhi, at the beginning of the century, being discriminated against on a train. He held a first class ticket there and was made to move; then was called a "coolie" (the equivalent of the US term of bigotry "nigger") and summarily kicked off the train entirely. Though MK Gandhi could have remained an aristocratic lawyer, he decided to devote his life to helping to stop the suffering of India's people that was created by British tyrannical rule. One of the main principles of Gandhi's original methods of nonviolence was noncooperation with violence. The people of India would quit working for or being taxed by the British. Instead they would "willingly suffer" becoming devotees of "dispossession."
; They would spin their own threads at a spinning wheel called a "charka" instead, thereby becoming independent of the need for British made fabrics. They would learn to live in ashrams (collective homes/
communes/
cooperatives). At one very dramatic and historical point the film depicts Gandhi's and the Satyagrahi's walk that was over 200 miles to the sea where salt was free. Much like the British were over-taxing Americans for tea, the British imperialist regime was over-taxing the people of India for vital salt (in a desert climate). The show also accurately depicts Gandhi going to jail for civil disobedience, which was his spiritual obedience; the many hunger strikes he went on to near death; the doty he wore that was hand spun; his dispossession only owning a pencil, paper, glasses, sandals, a walking stick, and a doty; Gandhi's world renowned leadership by nonviolent means, with the likes of Churchill and Roosevelt, et al; that his Satyagrahis would willing submit themselves to being beaten for defying British rules, some of the eldest and lamest, while women stood with bandages and splints on the side to nurse their broken and bleeding bodies. It was at this point, when the world wide press actually witnessed the brutality of British imperialism that the crucial turning point came for the people of India's independence in 1948. MK Gandhi lived for 6 months after seeing his life's mission fulfilled, then on his way to morning prayers was shot to death by one of his own countrymen. Ben Kingsley plays MK Gandhi quite brilliantly to the degree that he won the Oscar for best actor. The main historical facts are depicted quite on point in this film. I highly recommend it (especially to the Bush adminstration!). m_d.md.m_d Read more Less

Simply the best

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 19, 2004

Pros: Acting, direction

Cons: length

Brilliantly conceived and well exucuted is this film about the leader of Indian right sand independence. The legth of the movie may detract some, wishing for a fast pace resolution, but others should hang in there. The movie is methodical in its deli...very and presents many of the complexities of the life of Mahatma Gandhi. The fabric of this tale is as rich and as colorful as any Indian sari, never plain or unideminsional. Read more Less

Non violence - Peace in the World - or a

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 22, 2003

Like others I saw this movie, twice, twenty years ago. I think there are some scenes that are missing in the DVD? This does not detract from the portrayal of the life and work of a most extraordinary man. I simply fail to understand the bitternes...s expoused in some of the "reviews" posted here. Read more Less

A must have!!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 10, 2003

Absolutely stunning movie and a great story. This is a must have in any DVD movie collection. Perhaps one of the last movies made with real crowds and locations, before the digital replication took over. Excellent acting by Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hatt...angadi. The interview with Ben Kingsley is quite interesting! The DVD quality could have been a little better on the sound side, I don't know if the DVD really captures the cinema experience. Nevertheless a great movie to have and what a story! Read more Less

This movie was the best movie of the 80'

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 2, 2003

This movie is a cinematic masterpiece and was truly touched by Ben Kingsley's performance.
It is one of the best movies of all time!

adamscupm must be a jerk

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 10, 2002

you cannot be a better judge than the Oscar Jurr, so go home lick yourself.

Great Movie

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 1, 2002

One of the best movie i have seen. May be it won't be like by others who spend their life in their own world.

worthless utter shittty film

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 22, 2002

use this as a coaster--believe me, this movie sucked 20 years ago and it sucks now.what a waste. attenborough is a bitchboy.