In the 1982 motion picture, “Gandhi,” Richard Attenborough tried capturing the life and work of Mohandas K. Gandhi. In this epic biography, a lifetime was put into 190 minutes of film and Gandhi’s ever existing story was told. The movie portrays Gandhi’s experiences with accuracy and detail but, the biography lacked many blocks of time and left out several important factors to the make-up of Gandhi’s life. Certain happenings were not mentioned at all and others were briefly discussed during dialogue. The audience was given a basic understanding of Gandhi’s timeline but missing pieces were present.

In 1944, “Ba” Gandhi’s wife passed away in Aga Khan’s palace this and the talks of a Muslim Pakistan were briefly shown. Many historical facts were form then on omitted to save the screenplay time. Gandhi’s fasts due to violence were briefly shown and the amount of pain and the seriousness of each fast were not shown enough. Details that would have given Gandhi’s character depth were also not there.

The Movie began in 1893, leaving twenty four years out of the movie. From Gandhi’s birth to his arrival in South Africa, Attenborough chose to not show any of these years leaving out Gandhi’s entire childhood and schooling. In these early years, Gandhi attended primary school and was married to Kasturba at the age of thirteen. His college years and his first sail to England were also omitted from the film. His involvement with the Vegetarian Society and his struggles with legal practice in Bombay, India were also not captured. These events not being shown gave the audience no sense of character to Gandhi in the first few minutes of the movie.

In 1948, Gandhi was assassinated on the way to evening prayer. This was one of the most accurate scenes filmed. Gandhi was sitting on the floor of his room in the rear of Birla House in New Delhi. Gandhi exiting his house and heading to the crowd, he leaned on two young women. The granddaughter’s of cousins. As he removed his arms form the shoulders of Abha and Manu, he touched his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. Just then a man elbowed his way out of the congregation into the lane. He looked as if he wished to receive the blessing of Gandhi by touching his feet. But since they were late, Manu tried to stop him and caught hold of his hand. He pushed her away and planting himself about two feet from Gandhi, fired three shots from a small automatic pistol. As Gandhi slowly lowered to the floor, he murmured, “Oh God,” and fell to the ground. Every detail and every description written about the assassination of Gandhi was careful

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