GANDHI opens with the showing of the Mahatma's assassination and funeral. An old and haggard man, Gandhi walks with two women acting as his walking stick into a loud crowd. A man called Nathuram Godse bows down to him, draws his pistol and shoots Gandhi three times in the chest. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, then nearly eighty years old, dies with God's name on his lips. The movie then shows Gandhi's memorial service, which has a …
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…house. He is just going before he tells the American admirer that he has failed in his mission. Miraban tells the admirer that he has offered a word out of madness; but he doesn't see it, neither does the world. Meanwhile we are shown the ending Gandhi's life again; and this time not the funeral procession but his cremation. Thus, Gandhi dies a sad man; but the film GANDHI shows honestly the greatness in him.