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“The life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is brought to the screen unhindered by the constraints of commerciality and the temptations towards epic regeneration. The late Gandhi researcher Vithalbhai Jhaveri took seven years to assemble the thousands of feet of rare newsreels and other documents used in this straightforward, irresistibly moving work. At 5-1/2 hours in length, it is a documentary of immense detail, filled with reverence for the man who preached the gospel of non-violence and galvanized India's freedom movement. ‘The world has heard a great deal about Gandhi and hardly anything about Mahatma,' writes Elliott Stein in the Village Voice. ‘The theatrical choreography of hundreds of thousands of extras in the funeral scenes of Gandhi had failed to move me; in Mahatma, the simple disordered dignity of the event was shattering... In its own way, Mahatma is as idealized a biography as Gandhi... Of necessity, both films omit a great deal. The big difference is that everything included in Jhaveri's film is true.'” Jeff Wagner