Gandhi is a biopic dramatic film portraying the life of Mahatma Gandhi. He led India to freedom from British rule by standing up for his rights through non-violence. The film holds the title of most extras used in a film from the Guinness Book of World Records. It had a reported 300,000 extras.Guinness World Records Web Archive: Most Film Extras

Mahatma Gandhi returns to his native home of India from South Africa to find many injustices plaguing the country. It was the same as in South Africa, racial prejudice and intolerance for his race was abound. Gandhi leads his countrymen in non-violent protests to gain independence from Great Britain.

• Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi
• Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White
• Edward Fox as Reginald Dyer
• John Gielgud as Lord Irwin
• Trevor Howard as Judge Broomfield
• John Mills as Lord Chelmsford
• Martin Sheen as Vince Walker
• Ian Charleson as Charlie Andrews
• Athol Fugard as Jan Christiaan Smuts

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