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Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi.

Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Hudson have something in common. They both won Oscars in their big-screen debut.

Whereas Hudson won hers portraying Effie White in Dreamgirls, Kinglsey won his playing the ultimate pacifist - the father of modern India, Mohandas Karmachand Gandhi.

You know me. I got to give credit where it's due. Despite being over three hours long, Richard Attenborough's flim about the life of Gandhi is a pretty good one. Unlike most biopics, this one starts off at his assassination in 1948.

Gandhi got his start with the business of non-violent resistance following an incident in which he was booted off a train in British-controlled South Africa during his days as a lawyer. After winning more rights for his fellow Indians, Gandhi returns to India to help jumpstart the move for Indian independence, which gains steam following the fiasco which came to be known as the Armistar Massacare.

If you haven't seen this movie, get off your butt and rent it. You'll see why Kingsley earned that Oscar.

Trivia:

Kingley himself is half-Indian. His real name is Krishna Bhanji - the son of an Indian man and a British woman.

Roshan Seth (Dhalsim from the 1994 Street Fighter movie) and Amrish Puri would both work together in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Seth would play the Maharajah's advisor Chattar Lal and Puri would play Thuggee High Priest Mola Ram.

Great movie, seen it several times throughout the years. Will likely see it again at some point.

Ghandhi has some dark parts in his life:

-He refused to let his dying wife take penicillin, that would have saved her. Said her hands were in God's hand. Yet he took quinine to save his own ass from Malaria not long after.

-Late in life, he sleep naked next to teenage girls, some of them his own family members. Was supposed to be a test of his celibacy and to "keep warm at night."

-There's some decent proof that he had a very bad view of blacks(Africans), seeing them as inferior. May have been racist towards Caucasians too.

Originally posted by Robtard
Great movie, seen it several times throughout the years. Will likely see it again at some point.

Ghandhi has some dark parts in his life:

-He refused to let his dying wife take penicillin, that would have saved her. Said her hands were in God's hand. Yet he took quinine to save his own ass from Malaria not long after.

-Late in life, he sleep naked next to teenage girls, some of them his own family members. Was supposed to be a test of his celibacy and to "keep warm at night."

-There's some decent proof that he had a very bad view of blacks(Africans), seeing them as inferior. May have been racist towards Caucasians too.

I know as much. He helped out his fellow Hindus in South Africa, but did squat for the blacks living there. But I'm not going to rip on the guy in his own respect thread.

I'm not ripping on him either. His actions are his actions, and many of his actions helped people.

Originally posted by Robtard
I'm not ripping on him either. His actions are his actions, and many of his actions helped people.

Martin Luther King, Jr. modeled the civil rights movement after Gandhi's own.