Ben Kingsley was offered the title role only after Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins turned it down.
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Jan Christiaan Smuts is referred to as the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa in this film when Gandhi is there. Smuts didn't gain the office until 1919, after the death of Prime Minister Louis Botha. Gandhi left South Africa in 1914 and never returned. See more...
Ben Kingsley was offered the title role only after Alec Guinness and Anthony Hopkins turned it down.
British actor Ben Kingsley who played Mahatma Gandhi is of Indian and English descent.
For his role in Gandhi, Kingsley became the first actor of Indian descent to win an Oscar for an acting role.
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