The turntable featured in a few shots is a Gyro SE, made by the UK company Michell Engineering. It has been in continuous production since 1983.
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The part of Charlie Andrews was first intended for Michael Denison.
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Gerald Sim (Magistrate) was the brother-in-law of the director Richard Attenborough.
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Sir Richard Attenborough and his wife Sheila Sim owned a share of the rights in Britain's longest-running play "The Mousetrap", which they sold to fund the production of this movie.
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Dominic Guard appeared in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings (1978). Sir Michael Hordern appeared in the BBC Radio drama of The Lord of the Rings, Bernard Hill appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Mohammad Ali Jinnah became the subject of his own movie, Jinnah (1998), which featured Sir Christopher Lee.
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Anupam Kher auditioned for the role of Nehru but lost out to Roshan Seth.
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Sir David Lean and producer Sam Spiegel planned to make a movie about Gandhi with Sir Alec Guinness as Gandhi after they'd finished The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), but then they opted to make Lawrence of Arabia (1962) instead.
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For the funeral scene, advertisements calling for 300,000 extras were either distributed in pamphlets and by newspapers in Delhi. Extras were not allowed to wear anything other than white and as part of security measures, turnstiles were built at selected entry points for crowd control. The crew bought any clothing that was not white.
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A duplicate of this movie's Best Picture Oscar is on display at the "World of Coca-Cola" exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia. Columbia Pictures, this movie's distributor, was owned by the Coca-Cola Company at the time.
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Gandhi - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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