India will remember Gandhi Along with this film and its team of his.A wonderful Oscar winning movie and talked a lot about the meticulous legendary planning in making the Movie!
I will remember him for his role in Jurassic Park!
May bring fond memories of him, to his family and well wishers from us all here in India!
Re: Directors are important invisible figures in Films!
by kallol paul on Aug 25, 2014 11:28 PM
We get inspirations from Passion involved in detailed works!
No matter what people say, Gandhi was and still is the greatest human that India ever produced. Its easy for people to say any thing in present scenario with multiple comforts at their disposal, but that time was different. Salute to that great man and hats off to this man too for making such a brilliant film on him.
No matter what people say, Gandhi was and still is the greatest human that India ever produced. Its easy for people to say any thing in present scenario with multiple comforts at their disposal, but that time was different. Salute to that great man and hats off to this man too for making such a brilliant film on him.
thanks for creating a brilliant mater piece which we can cherish for long long time. the canvas of the movie was so big that even present indian biopics dwarfs against it....dont know about your other accomplishments, but your name will be carried to generations for the master piece created. RIP - RICHARD
Re: rip - richard
by Dirgahpattan Sinha on Aug 25, 2014 12:32 PM
All Richard did was pioneer 'Poverty P0rn0graphy'!
A major part of the movie 'Gandhi' was dedicated to showing India's post-independence poverty and backwardness 30 odd years after India became an independent country!
The most insulting facet of this movie is that Richard did not have to spend any money on recreating the pre-independence poverty and misery of India 30 odd years after independence!
It was a telling way for the British to prove that Indians are incompetent and backward!
But here we are besotted with what was a glaring insult to our national identity!
Re: Re: rip - richard
by Sunit Kumar on Aug 25, 2014 02:18 PM
The vocabulary is so stupendous that even the Victorians would wave their hats and todays Elizabethan wont understand what u r saying. The English did wrong but they did right things too, look at the positive side and move on !!
Naseeruddin Shah nursed a huge grouse against Sir Richard Attenborough for not picking him for the lead role even though he was called for an audition.
Naseeruddin Shah went to that extent of accusing Attenborough of a racial bias for picking a white man.
Naseer said all this audition stuff is an eyewash when he came to know that he is not selected but Ben Kingsley.
When I met Sir Richard much later in Cannes, I asked him this question of Naseeruddin Shah.
Sir Richard replied, I can understand Naseer's feelings; to be honest quite a few things went against him and the prime reason, if am compelled to choose one, is that intensity in his eyes; this intensity is caused by constricting pupils which happens over a very long period of time and is a function of so many factors including the personality of that person. I can't change that piercing eyes; Gandhi is a noble and peaceful character and not an intense one; hence the actor playing this character must have dilated pupils as much as possible. Naseer never understood that. It is not about the shape of your face, height, built; almost always it is about eyes and audience connect with those stares. Naseer built his character on the lines of Al Pacino projecting intensity in every role that he does; it may have won accolades elsewhere but here that factor goes against him. Now you accuse me of racial bias; Gawd help me!
A true firl maker and a person who perform his character dedication towards India which none of India had ever thought - admiring Hero and an International Loss to society of earth.
