Ben Kingsley was offered the title role only after Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins turned it down.
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In the scene where Gandhi leads out the striking mineworkers, he confronts the mine owner who then drives away in his car. The car turns the corner and drives out of sight. Then the police come round the same corner on horseback. The cloud of dust caused by the car disappears a split-second before the horses come into view, indicating that it is really two shots with a time gap which has been edited out. See more...
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Ben Kingsley was offered the title role only after Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins turned it down.
For his role in Gandhi, Kingsley became the first actor of Indian descent to win an Oscar for an acting role.
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