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Gandhi on Rupavahini
Award winning film 'Gandhi' produced by Richard Attenborough will be telecast with Sinhala subtitles on May 28, Saturday at 9.35 pm on the Rupavahini channel.

This is the first opportunity that Sri Lankan televiewers will get to see Gandhi- a film which won eight Oscars and got recognition and critical acclaim for actor Ben Kingsley, who played the lead. The music score was by Ravi Shanker the renowned Indian musician.

The film spans 56 out of Gandhi's 79 years. It starts with his South African days where Gandhi is shown as a young attorney who is thrown out of a first class compartment in spite of having a valid ticket. Angered at this humiliation, Gandhi decides to fight for the rights of Indians and other coloured people. It is here that he meets with his first success.

His fame spreads to India and he is invited to return home to take part in the freedom struggle. On arrival he is shocked at the poverty in the country and undertakes to travel all over the country to witness, at first hand, the atrocities rampant in British India. Gandhi's struggle to win freedom for India through his non-violent approach, his belief that men are more good than evil and his spiritual ideas all form a part of this saga, the biography of a fascinating world leader -both spiritual and political.

The cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rahini Hattangadi, Candice Bergen,
Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Alyque Padatmee, Amrish Puri. Camera by Billie Williams and Ronnie Taylor, editing by John Bloom Gandhi is produced and directed by Richard Attenborough.

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