The character of Vince Walker (Martin Sheen), the New York Times’ journalist Gandhi initially meets in South Africa and then again at the time of Salt March is fictional, inspired by real-life American war correspondent Webb Miller who did not meet the real Gandhi in South Africa, but whose coverage of the march on the Dharasana Salt Works helped change global opinion on the British rule of India. It’s the depiction of real persons where Attenborough takes his greatest liberties and has drawn most criticism. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.Gandhi contains the important historical moments: Gandhi’s removal from a first-class train carriage due to his ethnicity and subsequent fight for Indian civil rights in South Africa (1893-1914) his return to India (1915) the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar that saw British Indian Army soldiers open fire on a gathering of unarmed men, women and children resulting in hundreds of deaths Gandhi’s numerous arrests by the British ruling party in the hope it would diminish his teachings of noncooperation the Salt March or Dandi March of 1930 in which, as a demonstration over the British tax on salt, Gandhi and his followers walked almost 400 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea near Dandi in order to make salt themselves his marriage to Kasturba Gandhi (1883-1944) the end of British rule in 1947 when the British Indian Empire split into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan and his assassination by shooting at the hands right-wing Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse in 1948.Ĭritics didn't like the director's portrayal of real people The previous year, he received his first Academy Award nomination, for his leading role in A Single Man, a performance that won him a BAFTA Award. In 2011, Firth received an Academy Award for his portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech, a performance that also earned him the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Actor (his 2nd Academy Award Nomination). Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. The previous year, he received his first Academy Award nomination, for his leading role in A Single Man, a perfo Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and theatre actor.
Description: Colin Andrew Firth, CBE (born 10 September 1960) is an English film, television, and theatre actor.