Salman Rushdie wrote an essay criticizing the film "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough. He argues the film portrays Gandhi as more of a mystical figure like Christ rather than as the complex political leader he actually was. Rushdie also takes issue with some of the most powerful sequences in the film, such as the depiction of the Amritsar massacre, which he says presents a cruel individual and complete falsehood. Overall, Rushdie asserts the film takes more of a hagiographical than biographical approach to Gandhi.

1. Name: Maru Riddhi
Paper: 11 Post-Colonial Literature
Roll No: 21
Class: M.A.Sem.3
Year: 2016-2018
Emil Id: riddhimaru27@gmail.com
Submitted To: M.K.Bhavnagar University,
Department of English

2. 0. Salman Rushdia Born
1947
0. British Indian
Novelist and Essayist.
0. His Second novel,
Midnight’s Children
won the booker prize in
1981

3. 0. Change the history of
his country…..
0. Born: October 2,,1869
Porbandar.
0. Assassinated : January
30, 1948, New Delhi.
0. Awards : Time’s Person
of the year.

4. O. In the essay “Attenborough’s Gandhi”
in which Salman Rushdie talks about the
movies “ Gandhi”
O. Most Poweful sequence in the film
O. Cruel
O. Individual
O. Complete Falsehood
O. “ The film is a Biography, not a
Political work”.
O. “ Film is more Hagiographical than
Biographical”.

5. Spiritualism
Simplicity
Change
anything, Submit
Youself

6. The reason say Selman Rushdie might be viewing
Gandhi as a spiritual mystical person. He view that
when he saw this movie that time he found that
Attenborough unfortunately saw the image of
Gandhi as a Christ and comparison with Christ.
And we can say that Gandhi is a spiritual person.

7. First of all, why they have chosen Gandhi? Not any other
patriotic figure of spiritual figure like Sardar Patel? Subhas
Bose ? Why no Tagore ?

8. 0. There are many powerful sequences in
this movie. For example the Amritsar
massacre. In court martial an Englishman
asks the question about Jallianwala Bagh
to Dyer.
0. The scene say that his actions were
those of a cruel and immediately after
condemned by Anglo-Indian.
0And when he returned to England
he was given a heroic welcome. An
appeal fund paunch on his behalf made
him a rich man.
0.Tagore disgusted by the British
reaction to the massacre return his
knighthood.

9. A Few words more, we can say that Salman
Rushdie has written an article about “Attenborough’s
Gandhi” in which he has indicated about Gandhi and
also made criticism on him. He didn’t write only good
things about but also wrote and made mockery on
him. He writes also about Nathuram Godse and told
that he was right according to him and Gandhiji was
also right at his place. Therefore Rushdie has given his
views about Gandhi in this essay. Thus Rushdie gives
his views about Attenborough’s film and at end ,he
writes that a very significant line. Conclusion “ Rich
men like emperors, have always had a weakness for
tame holy men, for saints