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GANDHI the film

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FILM REVIEWS & PROFILES

Movie Reviews UK

Flick filosopher

Popcorn peacemaker

City Review

Johnson review

Genova, Gandhi: saint or politician

Brain, Teaching modern Indian history through the film Gandhi

Younger, Gandhi: the person and the film, Theology Today, 1983

INITIAL POINTERS

• How is Gandhi portrayed (continuity & change)?
• How did Gandhi respond to his environment?
• Why did Gandhi act the way he did ?
• How was Jinnah portrayed ?
• How were Ambedkar and Aurobindo portrayed, or not ?
• How were the British portrayed (comparisons here with A Passage to India)?
• Was Gandhi 'a saint or politician' (see Genova article), neither, both, etc. ?
• To portray Gandhi by an English actor (Ben Kingsley), what does that imply or not?
• Film as history, as re-enactment, 'empathy', what ?
• What do we see of Gandhi's religious imperatives?
• What do we see of his vision of society ?
• Is his vision of society derived from his religious standpoint, or vice-versa?

Gandhi as an individual - his context - comparisons - his legacy

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