GANDHI

A movie that I cannot include in any list. Its an entirely different genre, in a list by itself, and in a class of its own. You cannot ever compare it with another movie. But, yes... there is one other movie... it is the same movie, dubbed in Hindi. Both superhits.

Ben Kingsley, as the Mahatma, won the Oscar in 1982 or 1983, if I remember correctly. The movie won several other awards. Simply because, you could not avoid giving it the awards in most categories.

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Maulana Azad meet with the British after the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre. Kinnock, played by the famous actor from "Yes, Minister" is on the other side.

Gandhi asks the British to leave India. The British are sceptical and ask him if he really believes that the British would leave India, "just like that"? Yes, replies Gandhi. He talks of non-cooperation. A really cool video clip, that presents the courage, humility, pragmatism and the sensibilities of that time.

A violent reaction to the Jalianwala Bagh issue would perhaps have destroyed the freedom movement. Cinema history, about history... Excellent.