1 00:01:57,494 --> 00:01:59,996 There are more than yesterday. 2 00:02:21,769 --> 00:02:25,646 He will be saying prayers in the garden. Just follow the others. 3 00:02:26,523 --> 00:02:30,693 He will be saying prayers in the garden. Just follow the others. 4 00:03:45,352 --> 00:03:48,104 Brother, Bapu is already late for prayers. 5 00:03:51,024 --> 00:03:52,900 Oh, God! 6 00:04:44,244 --> 00:04:47,413 The object of this massive tribute... 7 00:04:47,956 --> 00:04:49,665 died as he had always lived: 8 00:04:49,917 --> 00:04:52,251 A private man without wealth... 9 00:04:52,461 --> 00:04:53,878 without property... 10 00:04:54,129 --> 00:04:56,589 without official title or office. 11 00:04:57,591 --> 00:04:59,091 Mahatma Gandhi... 12 00:04:59,301 --> 00:05:01,135 was not the commander of armies... 13 00:05:01,386 --> 00:05:03,930 nor a ruler of vast lands. 14 00:05:04,556 --> 00:05:07,141 He could not boast any scientific achievement... 15 00:05:07,351 --> 00:05:09,101 or artistic gift. 16 00:05:09,519 --> 00:05:10,561 Yet men... 17 00:05:10,896 --> 00:05:15,524 governments, dignitaries from all over the world... 18 00:05:15,692 --> 00:05:17,693 have joined hands today to pay homage... 19 00:05:17,861 --> 00:05:20,529 to this little brown man in the loincloth... 20 00:05:20,739 --> 00:05:23,616 who led his country to freedom. 21 00:05:24,701 --> 00:05:26,827 In the words of General George C. Marshall... 22 00:05:27,704 --> 00:05:30,122 the American secretary of state: 23 00:05:30,707 --> 00:05:33,542 "Mahatma Gandhi has become the spokesman... 24 00:05:33,835 --> 00:05:36,671 for the conscience of all mankind. 25 00:05:37,214 --> 00:05:40,174 He was a man... who made humility... 26 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:42,009 and simple truth... 27 00:05:42,552 --> 00:05:45,262 more powerful than empires." 28 00:05:45,514 --> 00:05:47,431 And Albert Einstein added: 29 00:05:47,891 --> 00:05:52,311 "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this... 30 00:05:52,562 --> 00:05:54,689 ever in flesh and blood... 31 00:05:55,565 --> 00:05:57,733 walked upon this earth." 32 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:44,822 Tell me... do you think about hell? 33 00:06:45,949 --> 00:06:47,992 No, neither do I. 34 00:06:48,201 --> 00:06:50,286 But this man here... 35 00:06:50,537 --> 00:06:53,914 is a Christian, and he's written that in order to believe... 36 00:06:58,086 --> 00:06:59,211 Excuse me, sir. 37 00:06:59,421 --> 00:07:01,881 How long have you been in South Africa? 38 00:07:02,382 --> 00:07:05,885 - A week. - I don't know how you got a ticket. 39 00:07:06,845 --> 00:07:08,929 Just what are you doing in this car, coolie? 40 00:07:09,765 --> 00:07:11,390 Why, I have a ticket. 41 00:07:11,391 --> 00:07:12,231 Why, I have a ticket. 42 00:07:12,434 --> 00:07:14,477 A first-class ticket. 43 00:07:15,604 --> 00:07:18,314 - How did you get it? - I sent for it in the post. 44 00:07:18,565 --> 00:07:19,815 I'm an attorney. I didn't... 45 00:07:20,025 --> 00:07:22,318 There are no colored attorneys in South Africa. 46 00:07:22,486 --> 00:07:23,652 Sit where you belong! 47 00:07:23,862 --> 00:07:26,030 - I'll take your luggage back, sir. - No. 48 00:07:26,281 --> 00:07:28,157 Just a moment, please. 49 00:07:29,034 --> 00:07:30,117 You see? 50 00:07:30,994 --> 00:07:33,829 Mohandas K. Gandhi, attorney at law. 51 00:07:34,039 --> 00:07:37,166 I'm going to conduct a case for an Indian trading firm. 52 00:07:37,417 --> 00:07:42,088 Didn't you hear me? There are no colored attorneys in South Africa. 53 00:07:42,339 --> 00:07:44,673 I was called to the bar in London... 54 00:07:45,133 --> 00:07:48,135 and enrolled at the High Court of Chancery. 55 00:07:48,345 --> 00:07:50,262 I am, therefore, an attorney. 56 00:07:50,514 --> 00:07:53,015 And since I am, in your eyes, colored... 57 00:07:53,183 --> 00:07:55,351 I think we can deduce there is at least... 58 00:07:55,519 --> 00:07:57,686 one colored attorney in South Africa. 59 00:07:58,688 --> 00:08:00,773 Smart bloody Kaffir! 60 00:08:01,024 --> 00:08:02,066 Throw him out. 61 00:08:02,317 --> 00:08:04,652 Just move your black ass back to third class... 62 00:08:04,861 --> 00:08:07,279 or I'll have you thrown off at the next station. 63 00:08:07,531 --> 00:08:09,281 But I always go first class! 64 00:09:18,810 --> 00:09:20,853 But you're a rich man. Why put up with it? 65 00:09:21,146 --> 00:09:21,520 Yes, I am rich. But I am Indian. 66 00:09:21,521 --> 00:09:23,480 Yes, I am rich. But I am Indian. 67 00:09:23,690 --> 00:09:26,025 I do not expect to travel first class. 68 00:09:26,193 --> 00:09:28,694 - In England, I was a poor student. - That was England. 69 00:09:28,862 --> 00:09:30,529 This is part of England's Empire. 70 00:09:30,739 --> 00:09:35,492 Mr. Gandhi, you look at Mr. Khan and you see a successful Muslim trader. 71 00:09:35,744 --> 00:09:38,537 Most South Africans see him simply as an Indian. 72 00:09:38,788 --> 00:09:42,499 And the vast majority of Indians, mostly Hindus, like yourself... 73 00:09:42,709 --> 00:09:45,669 were brought here to work mines and harvest crops. 74 00:09:45,921 --> 00:09:48,380 Most Europeans don't want them doing anything else. 75 00:09:48,632 --> 00:09:52,468 - But that is very unchristian... - Mr. Gandhi, in this country... 76 00:09:52,719 --> 00:09:56,513 Indians are not allowed to walk along the pavement with a Christian. 77 00:09:59,476 --> 00:10:02,519 You mean, you employ Mr. Baker as your attorney... 78 00:10:02,687 --> 00:10:04,897 but you can't walk down the street with him? 79 00:10:05,065 --> 00:10:06,273 Well, I can. 80 00:10:06,775 --> 00:10:09,735 But I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone... 81 00:10:09,945 --> 00:10:12,571 less holy than Mr. Baker. 82 00:10:22,666 --> 00:10:24,541 Well, then it must be fought. 83 00:10:24,793 --> 00:10:27,127 We are children of God like everyone else. 84 00:10:27,337 --> 00:10:28,629 Allah be praised! 85 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,340 And what battalions will you call upon? 86 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,263 I will write to the press... 87 00:10:37,472 --> 00:10:39,723 here and in England. 88 00:10:40,183 --> 00:10:41,308 I will use the courts. 89 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,978 You'll cause a lot of trouble. Our position is... 90 00:10:44,187 --> 00:10:46,772 We are members of the Empire. 91 00:10:48,149 --> 00:10:50,985 And we come from an ancient civilization. 92 00:10:51,611 --> 00:10:54,822 Why should we not walk on the pavements like other men? 93 00:10:55,073 --> 00:10:59,118 I rather like the idea of an Indian barrister in South Africa. 94 00:10:59,452 --> 00:11:03,414 I'm sure our community could keep you in work for some time... 95 00:11:03,665 --> 00:11:06,375 even if you caused a good deal of trouble. 96 00:11:07,752 --> 00:11:11,380 Especially if you caused a good deal of trouble. 97 00:11:30,942 --> 00:11:33,944 There's the English reporter. I told you he'd come. 98 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:39,408 You also said your article would draw a thousand people. 99 00:11:41,870 --> 00:11:45,289 At least some of the Hindus brought their wives. 100 00:11:45,498 --> 00:11:49,126 No, I asked my wife to organize that. 101 00:11:50,545 --> 00:11:52,087 Some of them are leaving. 102 00:12:01,264 --> 00:12:02,806 "Ladies and gentlemen... 103 00:12:03,058 --> 00:12:07,227 we have asked you to gather here to help us proclaim our right... 104 00:12:07,437 --> 00:12:10,606 to be treated as equal citizens of the Empire. 105 00:12:11,232 --> 00:12:12,900 We do not seek conflict. 106 00:12:13,651 --> 00:12:16,695 We know the strength of the forces arrayed against us... 107 00:12:16,696 --> 00:12:17,112 We know the strength of the forces arrayed against us... 108 00:12:17,489 --> 00:12:22,201 know that because of them, we can only use peaceful means. 109 00:12:22,452 --> 00:12:25,746 But we are determined that justice will be done. 110 00:12:27,624 --> 00:12:31,126 The symbol of our status is embodied in this pass... 111 00:12:31,336 --> 00:12:33,670 which we must carry at all times... 112 00:12:33,922 --> 00:12:36,757 but which no European even has to have. 113 00:12:37,008 --> 00:12:39,843 The first step towards changing our status... 114 00:12:40,261 --> 00:12:43,222 is to eliminate this difference between us." 115 00:12:51,564 --> 00:12:53,482 Now? 116 00:12:57,904 --> 00:13:02,074 You write brilliantly, but you have much to learn about handling men. 117 00:13:04,619 --> 00:13:06,620 "We do not want to ignite... 118 00:13:07,747 --> 00:13:10,249 the fear or hatred of anyone. 119 00:13:11,167 --> 00:13:12,209 But we ask you... 120 00:13:13,044 --> 00:13:15,671 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh... 121 00:13:15,922 --> 00:13:18,715 to help us light up the sky... 122 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:22,261 and the minds of the British authorities... 123 00:13:22,470 --> 00:13:25,639 with our defiance of this injustice." 124 00:13:27,809 --> 00:13:31,854 We will now burn the passes of our committee and its supporters. 125 00:13:33,231 --> 00:13:36,233 We ask you to put your passes on the fire... 126 00:13:36,443 --> 00:13:37,776 You bloody dog! 127 00:13:43,950 --> 00:13:47,453 Those passes... are government property! 128 00:13:48,204 --> 00:13:51,957 And I will arrest the first man who tries to burn one! 129 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:04,845 Take him away. 130 00:14:26,826 --> 00:14:27,951 You little... 131 00:14:28,536 --> 00:14:29,578 Sammy... 132 00:14:30,121 --> 00:14:31,163 bastard! 133 00:14:33,082 --> 00:14:35,584 Now! Are there any more? 134 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:39,004 If you want this kind of trouble, you can have it. 135 00:15:03,029 --> 00:15:04,112 Let me go! 136 00:15:05,657 --> 00:15:07,157 Let me go! 137 00:15:26,261 --> 00:15:27,386 Stop. 138 00:15:46,614 --> 00:15:48,949 The London papers have arrived from the Cape. 139 00:15:49,117 --> 00:15:52,119 The worst was the Daily Mail. They said the burning of passes... 140 00:15:52,328 --> 00:15:55,455 - Ask Mr. Herzog to see me. - ... was the most significant act... 141 00:15:55,665 --> 00:15:58,917 in colonial affairs since the Declaration of Independence. 142 00:15:59,127 --> 00:16:01,420 They'll find we're better prepared this time. 143 00:16:01,671 --> 00:16:04,798 Mr. Gandhi will find he's on a long hiding to nothing. 144 00:16:06,426 --> 00:16:09,386 "A High Court judge confirmed that Mr. Gandhi... 145 00:16:09,637 --> 00:16:13,015 would've been within his rights to prosecute for assault... 146 00:16:13,224 --> 00:16:16,351 since neither he nor Mr. Khan resisted arrest." 147 00:16:16,644 --> 00:16:18,312 I told you about English law. 148 00:16:18,563 --> 00:16:21,481 As I told you about English policemen. 149 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:23,775 Yes? 150 00:16:25,028 --> 00:16:26,945 We're very pleased to have you back, Papa. 151 00:16:26,946 --> 00:16:27,696 We're very pleased to have you back, Papa. 152 00:16:28,072 --> 00:16:30,198 And I am glad to be back. 153 00:16:30,408 --> 00:16:32,242 Come. 154 00:16:33,202 --> 00:16:34,828 Mind your face. 155 00:16:41,502 --> 00:16:44,588 Tomorrow I'll tell you about my days in a police hospital. 156 00:16:46,174 --> 00:16:47,215 Come, come. 157 00:16:53,056 --> 00:16:56,350 Just like proper English gentlemen. I'm proud of them. 158 00:16:56,601 --> 00:16:59,853 They're boys and they're Indian. 159 00:17:01,814 --> 00:17:05,692 Will you take this off? It pinches every time I speak. 160 00:17:11,824 --> 00:17:13,408 I've got it. 161 00:17:21,793 --> 00:17:23,418 You'd be Gandhi. 162 00:17:25,004 --> 00:17:26,505 I thought you'd be bigger. 163 00:17:27,924 --> 00:17:30,217 - I'm sorry. - No, that's all right. 164 00:17:31,386 --> 00:17:33,345 My name is Charlie Andrews, sir. 165 00:17:33,554 --> 00:17:34,846 I've come from India. 166 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:37,015 I've read a great deal about you. 167 00:17:37,016 --> 00:17:38,642 I've read a great deal about you. 168 00:17:39,268 --> 00:17:40,811 Some of it good, I hope. 169 00:17:42,897 --> 00:17:44,272 Would you care to walk? 170 00:17:46,651 --> 00:17:48,360 - You're a clergyman? - Yes. 171 00:17:48,569 --> 00:17:50,487 I met some remarkable people in India. 172 00:17:50,697 --> 00:17:53,740 And when I read what you were doing, I wanted to help. 173 00:17:53,950 --> 00:17:55,867 - Does that surprise you? - Not anymore. 174 00:17:56,202 --> 00:17:57,869 At first, I was amazed... 175 00:17:58,287 --> 00:18:00,789 but when you're fighting in a just cause... 176 00:18:00,998 --> 00:18:05,335 people seem to pop up, like you, right out of the pavement. 177 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,463 Even when it's dangerous or... 178 00:18:11,551 --> 00:18:13,176 Hey, look what's coming! 179 00:18:13,469 --> 00:18:16,596 A white shepherd leading a brown Sammy! 180 00:18:17,932 --> 00:18:21,226 - Perhaps we should... - Doesn't the New Testament say: 181 00:18:21,436 --> 00:18:24,896 "If your enemy strikes you on the right cheek, offer him the left"? 182 00:18:25,064 --> 00:18:27,899 The phrase was used metaphorically. I don't think our Lord... 183 00:18:28,067 --> 00:18:31,778 I'm not so sure. I have thought about it a great deal. 184 00:18:31,988 --> 00:18:34,030 I suspect he meant you must show courage... 185 00:18:34,490 --> 00:18:37,367 be willing to take a blow, several blows, to show... 186 00:18:37,577 --> 00:18:40,245 you won't strike back, nor will you be turned aside. 187 00:18:40,455 --> 00:18:44,374 And when you do that, it calls on something in human nature... 188 00:18:44,584 --> 00:18:48,211 that makes his hatred for you decrease and his respect increase. 189 00:18:48,463 --> 00:18:51,757 I think Christ grasped that, and I have seen it work. 190 00:18:52,216 --> 00:18:53,300 Good morning. 191 00:18:53,468 --> 00:18:55,802 Get off the pavement, you bloody coon. 192 00:18:56,053 --> 00:18:57,345 - Yeah, get off. - Kaffir! 193 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:01,767 - Colin, what you doing? - Nothing. 194 00:19:01,976 --> 00:19:03,852 Come out where I can see you! 195 00:19:08,191 --> 00:19:10,108 I said, what you doing? 196 00:19:10,610 --> 00:19:13,361 We were just trying to clean up the neighborhood. 197 00:19:13,571 --> 00:19:16,948 You're late for work. I thought you'd gone 10 minutes ago. 198 00:19:17,325 --> 00:19:18,950 Get on! 199 00:19:24,874 --> 00:19:27,083 You'll find there's room for us all. 200 00:19:35,009 --> 00:19:37,469 - That was lucky. - I thought you were a man of God. 201 00:19:37,637 --> 00:19:39,846 I am, but I'm not so egotistical as to think... 202 00:19:40,014 --> 00:19:41,932 he plans his day around my dilemmas. 203 00:19:46,062 --> 00:19:48,271 You could call it a communal farm, I suppose. 204 00:19:48,481 --> 00:19:50,982 But you've all come to the same conclusions. 205 00:19:51,192 --> 00:19:53,735 Our Gita, the Muslim's Koran, your Bible. 206 00:19:53,945 --> 00:19:57,155 It's always the simple things that catch your breath. 207 00:19:57,615 --> 00:19:59,741 "Love thy neighbor as thyself." 208 00:20:00,827 --> 00:20:01,910 Not always practiced... 209 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,497 but it's something we Hindus could learn a lot from. 210 00:20:05,748 --> 00:20:08,416 That's the kind of thing you'll be seeking on this farm? 211 00:20:08,668 --> 00:20:10,085 Well, we shall try. 212 00:20:10,336 --> 00:20:12,170 Bad news, I'm afraid. 213 00:20:12,380 --> 00:20:15,090 They're going to change the pass laws. 214 00:20:19,637 --> 00:20:23,348 It's taken time, but it needed to be done fairly. 215 00:20:24,141 --> 00:20:27,310 We didn't want to create an injustice simply because Mr. Gandhi... 216 00:20:27,478 --> 00:20:29,771 was abusing our existing legislation. 217 00:20:30,106 --> 00:20:32,566 Just one moment, sir, please. 218 00:20:34,944 --> 00:20:36,736 I beg your pardon. 219 00:20:38,573 --> 00:20:39,865 But on a short trip... 220 00:20:40,074 --> 00:20:43,994 I wouldn't spend too much time on the Indian question, Mr. Walker. 221 00:20:44,287 --> 00:20:45,996 It's a tiny factor in South Africa. 222 00:20:48,666 --> 00:20:50,625 Well, it is news at the moment. 223 00:20:50,835 --> 00:20:53,628 I plan to report on the condition of the mines here... 224 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,463 - ... as well as the economy. - Good. 225 00:20:55,631 --> 00:20:58,341 But I would like to meet this Mr. Gand-eye. 226 00:20:58,551 --> 00:21:00,802 - Gandhi. - Gandhi. 227 00:21:01,846 --> 00:21:04,472 Of course. We Westerners have a weakness... 228 00:21:04,682 --> 00:21:07,559 for these spiritually inclined men of India. 229 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:10,687 But as an old lawyer, let me warn you. 230 00:21:10,938 --> 00:21:13,857 Mr. Gandhi is as shrewd a man as you will ever meet... 231 00:21:14,066 --> 00:21:16,735 however otherworldly he may seem. 232 00:21:17,153 --> 00:21:19,863 But I'm sure you're enough of a reporter to see that. 233 00:21:20,072 --> 00:21:22,866 I hope so. Thank you for your time, sir. 234 00:21:27,246 --> 00:21:29,956 So it's not spiritualism or nationalism. 235 00:21:30,207 --> 00:21:34,377 We're not resisting anything but the idea that people can't live together. 236 00:21:34,587 --> 00:21:35,795 You see? 237 00:21:36,672 --> 00:21:38,381 Hindus, Muslims... 238 00:21:38,633 --> 00:21:40,508 Sikhs, Jews... 239 00:21:41,302 --> 00:21:42,385 even Christians. 240 00:21:42,887 --> 00:21:45,013 Mr. Walker of the New York Times. 241 00:21:45,222 --> 00:21:46,264 How you doing? 242 00:21:47,850 --> 00:21:51,019 Without a paper, a journal of some kind... 243 00:21:51,228 --> 00:21:53,104 you cannot unite a community. 244 00:21:53,356 --> 00:21:56,441 You belong to a very important profession. 245 00:21:58,945 --> 00:22:02,489 And what do you think an important professional should write... 246 00:22:02,698 --> 00:22:06,242 about your response to General Smuts' newest legislation? 247 00:22:06,702 --> 00:22:08,244 I don't know. 248 00:22:08,496 --> 00:22:10,789 I'm still searching for a response. 249 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,832 You will respect the law? 250 00:22:13,793 --> 00:22:18,421 There are unjust laws as there are unjust men. 251 00:22:19,048 --> 00:22:21,841 You're a small minority to take on the South African government... 252 00:22:22,051 --> 00:22:27,263 - ... not to mention the British Empire. - If you are a minority of one... 253 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,891 the truth is the truth. 254 00:22:31,727 --> 00:22:33,019 Herman Kallenbach... 255 00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:36,231 our chief carpenter, also our chief benefactor. 256 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,315 Vince Walker, New York Times. 257 00:22:37,316 --> 00:22:38,149 Vince Walker, New York Times. 258 00:22:38,401 --> 00:22:40,318 This is quite a place you've got here. 259 00:22:41,070 --> 00:22:43,530 And you call it an ashram? 260 00:22:43,739 --> 00:22:46,658 That's right. The word only means "community." 261 00:22:46,867 --> 00:22:50,161 But it could stand for "village" or "the world." 262 00:22:50,413 --> 00:22:52,664 You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi. 263 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:54,582 I hope not. 264 00:22:57,461 --> 00:23:01,423 I hear that you also prepare the meals and clean the toilets. 265 00:23:01,674 --> 00:23:04,384 - Is that part of the experiment? - Ba! 266 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,139 We will need another place set for Mr. Walker's driver. 267 00:23:10,016 --> 00:23:11,558 I will tell Tara. 268 00:23:13,352 --> 00:23:17,272 Yes, it's one way to learn that each man's labor... 269 00:23:17,481 --> 00:23:19,232 is as important as another's. 270 00:23:19,442 --> 00:23:21,651 While you're doing it, cleaning the toilet... 271 00:23:21,902 --> 00:23:24,112 seems far more important than the law. 272 00:23:24,697 --> 00:23:26,322 Please, come and join us. 273 00:23:26,574 --> 00:23:29,325 You'll need something before your journey back. 274 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:32,746 - Would you excuse me, please? - Yeah, sure. 275 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,215 What is it? 276 00:23:45,301 --> 00:23:47,927 Sora was sent to tell me I must... 277 00:23:48,637 --> 00:23:50,388 rake and cover the latrine. 278 00:23:50,639 --> 00:23:53,808 That's right. Everyone takes their turn. 279 00:23:54,101 --> 00:23:55,602 It is the work of untouchables! 280 00:23:55,770 --> 00:23:58,563 In this place, there are no untouchables... 281 00:23:58,773 --> 00:24:00,690 and no work is beneath any of us. 282 00:24:01,525 --> 00:24:02,650 I'm your wife! 283 00:24:02,902 --> 00:24:04,611 All the more reason. 284 00:24:07,448 --> 00:24:08,907 As you command. 285 00:24:11,744 --> 00:24:15,246 The others may follow you, but you forget... 286 00:24:15,790 --> 00:24:17,916 I knew you when you were a boy. 287 00:24:18,167 --> 00:24:19,709 It's not me. 288 00:24:20,669 --> 00:24:22,420 It's the principle. 289 00:24:22,755 --> 00:24:26,341 And you will do it with joy or not do it at all. 290 00:24:27,384 --> 00:24:29,260 Not at all then. 291 00:24:33,265 --> 00:24:35,308 All right then, go. You don't belong here! 292 00:24:35,518 --> 00:24:39,354 Go and leave the ashram altogether. We don't want you! 293 00:24:40,189 --> 00:24:41,314 Have you no shame? 294 00:24:41,524 --> 00:24:42,982 I'm your wife! 295 00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:57,413 Where do you expect me to go? 296 00:24:59,125 --> 00:25:01,167 What's the matter with me? 297 00:25:09,051 --> 00:25:10,426 You're human. 298 00:25:12,596 --> 00:25:14,305 Only human. 299 00:25:16,767 --> 00:25:18,893 And it's even harder for those of us... 300 00:25:19,103 --> 00:25:22,856 who do not even want to be as good as you do. 301 00:25:26,902 --> 00:25:28,361 I apologize. 302 00:25:34,618 --> 00:25:37,078 I must get back to that reporter. 303 00:25:38,747 --> 00:25:40,373 And I must... 304 00:25:41,208 --> 00:25:44,586 rake and cover the latrine. 305 00:26:10,779 --> 00:26:12,864 I want to welcome you all. 306 00:26:14,450 --> 00:26:16,075 Every one of you. 307 00:26:16,702 --> 00:26:19,662 We have no secrets. 308 00:26:27,046 --> 00:26:29,797 Let us begin by being clear... 309 00:26:30,007 --> 00:26:32,759 about General Smuts' new law. 310 00:26:33,844 --> 00:26:36,888 All Indians must now be fingerprinted... 311 00:26:37,097 --> 00:26:38,139 like criminals. 312 00:26:38,432 --> 00:26:40,058 Men and women. 313 00:26:40,309 --> 00:26:44,312 No marriage other than a Christian marriage is considered valid. 314 00:26:44,521 --> 00:26:46,064 Under this act... 315 00:26:46,523 --> 00:26:49,067 our wives and mothers are whores. 316 00:26:49,818 --> 00:26:52,946 And every man here is a bastard. 317 00:26:57,409 --> 00:26:59,869 He has become quite good at this. 318 00:27:02,373 --> 00:27:04,666 And a policeman... 319 00:27:05,501 --> 00:27:08,169 passing an Indian dwelling... 320 00:27:08,379 --> 00:27:10,255 I will not call them homes. 321 00:27:10,506 --> 00:27:14,425 May enter and demand the card of any Indian woman whose dwelling it is. 322 00:27:14,635 --> 00:27:16,636 Goddamn them! 323 00:27:18,055 --> 00:27:19,222 Understand... 324 00:27:20,266 --> 00:27:23,184 he does not have to stand at the door. 325 00:27:24,603 --> 00:27:25,812 He may enter. 326 00:27:26,063 --> 00:27:27,355 I will not allow it! 327 00:27:27,898 --> 00:27:30,358 I swear to Allah. 328 00:27:30,693 --> 00:27:35,071 I'll kill the man who offers that insult to my home and my wife... 329 00:27:35,614 --> 00:27:37,991 and let them hang me! 330 00:27:41,787 --> 00:27:46,124 I say talk means nothing! 331 00:27:46,625 --> 00:27:50,920 Kill a few officials before they disgrace one Indian woman. 332 00:27:51,213 --> 00:27:54,757 Then they might think twice about such laws. 333 00:27:55,009 --> 00:27:59,012 In that cause, I would be willing to die! 334 00:28:07,563 --> 00:28:10,189 I praise such courage. 335 00:28:10,399 --> 00:28:13,192 I need such courage... 336 00:28:13,402 --> 00:28:16,696 because, in this cause, I too am prepared to die. 337 00:28:16,947 --> 00:28:18,406 But, my friend... 338 00:28:19,199 --> 00:28:23,786 there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. 339 00:28:24,913 --> 00:28:26,622 Whatever they do to us... 340 00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:31,002 we will attack no one... kill no one. 341 00:28:31,253 --> 00:28:35,089 But we will not give our fingerprints, not one of us. 342 00:28:35,924 --> 00:28:40,053 They will imprison us. They will fine us. They will seize our possessions. 343 00:28:40,763 --> 00:28:43,556 But they cannot take away our self-respect... 344 00:28:43,724 --> 00:28:45,308 if we do not give it to them. 345 00:28:45,476 --> 00:28:47,518 Have you been to prison? 346 00:28:48,228 --> 00:28:50,980 They beat us and torture us. I say... 347 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,275 I am asking you to fight. 348 00:28:55,152 --> 00:28:59,155 To fight against their anger, not to provoke it. 349 00:29:00,366 --> 00:29:04,285 We will not strike a blow. 350 00:29:05,204 --> 00:29:07,455 But we will receive them. 351 00:29:07,664 --> 00:29:09,165 And through our pain... 352 00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:12,794 we will make them see their injustice. 353 00:29:13,003 --> 00:29:14,670 And it will hurt... 354 00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:17,298 as all fighting hurts. 355 00:29:18,926 --> 00:29:20,802 But we cannot lose. 356 00:29:21,595 --> 00:29:23,137 We cannot. 357 00:29:25,182 --> 00:29:27,392 They may torture my body... 358 00:29:28,102 --> 00:29:33,689 break my bones... even kill me. Then... 359 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,776 they will have my dead body... 360 00:29:37,736 --> 00:29:40,321 not my obedience. 361 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,219 We are Hindu and Muslim... 362 00:30:04,096 --> 00:30:06,806 children of God, each one of us. 363 00:30:08,225 --> 00:30:11,811 Let us take a solemn oath in his name... 364 00:30:12,604 --> 00:30:14,647 that, come what may... 365 00:30:15,858 --> 00:30:19,193 we will not submit to this law. 366 00:30:59,943 --> 00:31:04,906 God save our gracious King 367 00:31:05,115 --> 00:31:10,244 God save our noble King 368 00:31:10,746 --> 00:31:14,499 God save our King 369 00:32:15,435 --> 00:32:18,062 These men are contracted laborers. 370 00:32:18,272 --> 00:32:19,647 They belong in the mines. 371 00:32:19,898 --> 00:32:22,316 You put their comrades in jail. 372 00:32:22,526 --> 00:32:23,901 When you free them... 373 00:32:24,069 --> 00:32:25,903 they will go back to work. 374 00:32:26,780 --> 00:32:28,155 I've warned you. 375 00:32:28,949 --> 00:32:30,449 We've warned each other. 376 00:32:40,252 --> 00:32:42,378 I don't think that's very good. 377 00:33:27,382 --> 00:33:29,634 Steady, steady. 378 00:33:29,885 --> 00:33:31,010 Stop! 379 00:33:42,105 --> 00:33:44,899 At the canter, charge! 380 00:33:47,778 --> 00:33:50,029 We should lie down. Down! 381 00:33:51,531 --> 00:33:54,033 The horses won't trample on us. Lie down! 382 00:34:33,073 --> 00:34:36,325 Follow me! Follow me! 383 00:34:56,638 --> 00:34:58,222 Now what the hell do we do? 384 00:34:58,557 --> 00:35:00,516 Let them march. 385 00:35:03,437 --> 00:35:06,814 In our own sweet time, in our own sweet way... 386 00:35:07,190 --> 00:35:08,816 we'll get them. 387 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,447 - One law! - One king! 388 00:35:14,698 --> 00:35:17,199 - One law! - One king! 389 00:35:21,997 --> 00:35:26,041 Some of you may be rejoicing that Mr. Gandhi has been put into prison. 390 00:35:27,335 --> 00:35:30,963 But I would ask you, assembled here in this house of God... 391 00:35:31,548 --> 00:35:35,134 to recognize that we are witnessing something new... 392 00:35:35,385 --> 00:35:38,596 something so unexpected, so unusual... 393 00:35:38,847 --> 00:35:41,599 that it is not surprising the government is at a loss. 394 00:35:43,310 --> 00:35:45,728 What Mr. Gandhi has forced us to do... 395 00:35:45,937 --> 00:35:48,606 is ask questions about ourselves. 396 00:35:49,983 --> 00:35:54,028 As Christians, those are difficult questions to answer. 397 00:35:55,739 --> 00:36:00,701 How do we treat men who defy an unjust law... 398 00:36:01,870 --> 00:36:03,662 who will not fight... 399 00:36:04,372 --> 00:36:06,499 but will not comply? 400 00:36:07,167 --> 00:36:10,044 As Christians, or as people who have not heard the word... 401 00:36:24,309 --> 00:36:26,435 They're sparing no one, I see. 402 00:36:27,813 --> 00:36:30,648 No, you were the surprise. 403 00:36:30,941 --> 00:36:32,900 It has been all over the prison. 404 00:36:33,068 --> 00:36:35,569 We thought they'd be too afraid of the English press. 405 00:36:35,737 --> 00:36:37,446 So did I. 406 00:36:46,790 --> 00:36:49,875 I don't know who they've left out there to do the work. 407 00:36:51,211 --> 00:36:54,421 - Have they touched the women? - My wife publicly defied the law. 408 00:36:54,589 --> 00:36:56,799 They've arrested her and four others. 409 00:36:57,050 --> 00:36:58,926 It split the government. 410 00:36:59,135 --> 00:37:01,637 Well, that's one victory. 411 00:37:01,847 --> 00:37:05,391 If we hold firm, it won't be the last. 412 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:06,684 Don't worry. 413 00:37:06,935 --> 00:37:09,728 I've never seen men so determined. 414 00:37:09,980 --> 00:37:12,273 You have given them a way to fight. 415 00:37:17,487 --> 00:37:18,529 Gandhi! 416 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,573 I want Gandhi! 417 00:37:20,824 --> 00:37:22,741 Which Sammy is it? 418 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:05,492 Mr. Gandhi. 419 00:38:07,245 --> 00:38:09,580 I thought we might have a little talk. 420 00:38:11,166 --> 00:38:12,708 Thank you, Daniels. 421 00:38:15,962 --> 00:38:17,963 Will you have a glass of sherry? 422 00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:20,132 Thank you, no. 423 00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:23,636 - Perhaps some tea? - I dined at the prison. 424 00:38:28,308 --> 00:38:30,893 Please, do come and sit down. 425 00:38:44,741 --> 00:38:45,783 Mr. Gandhi. 426 00:38:46,952 --> 00:38:50,496 I've more or less decided to ask the House to repeal the act... 427 00:38:50,705 --> 00:38:53,207 that you have taken such exception to. 428 00:38:53,541 --> 00:38:58,003 Well, if you asked, General Smuts, I'm sure it will be done. 429 00:38:58,463 --> 00:39:00,506 It's not quite that simple. 430 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:02,800 Somehow, I expected not. 431 00:39:03,051 --> 00:39:05,803 I thought of calling for a royal commission... 432 00:39:06,054 --> 00:39:08,222 to investigate the new legislation. 433 00:39:09,057 --> 00:39:12,476 I think I could guarantee they would recommend the act be repealed. 434 00:39:13,144 --> 00:39:14,687 I congratulate them. 435 00:39:14,896 --> 00:39:16,480 But they might also recommend... 436 00:39:17,524 --> 00:39:21,026 that all future Indian immigration be severely restricted... 437 00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:23,445 even stopped. 438 00:39:31,746 --> 00:39:35,958 Immigration was not an issue on which we fought. 439 00:39:36,167 --> 00:39:39,503 It would be wrong of us to make it one, now that we... 440 00:39:41,131 --> 00:39:43,590 We are in a position of advantage. 441 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,059 I'm ordering the release of all prisoners within the next 24 hours. 442 00:39:55,186 --> 00:39:57,896 You yourself are free as from this moment. 443 00:40:06,489 --> 00:40:07,990 Assuming we are in agreement. 444 00:40:08,783 --> 00:40:10,409 Yes, yes. 445 00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:15,205 It's just that in these clothes, I would prefer to go by taxi. 446 00:40:15,498 --> 00:40:16,582 All right. Fine. 447 00:40:18,877 --> 00:40:20,419 I'm afraid I have no money. 448 00:40:22,922 --> 00:40:24,173 Neither have I. 449 00:40:25,592 --> 00:40:27,676 I'm awfully sorry. 450 00:40:28,094 --> 00:40:29,136 Daniels... 451 00:40:29,345 --> 00:40:32,473 will you lend Mr. Gandhi a shilling for a taxi? 452 00:40:33,349 --> 00:40:34,767 I beg your pardon, sir? 453 00:40:35,852 --> 00:40:37,895 How far will you be going, Gandhi? 454 00:40:38,146 --> 00:40:42,691 Now that this is settled, I'd thought seriously of going back to India. 455 00:40:43,526 --> 00:40:46,779 But a shilling will do splendidly for the moment. 456 00:40:55,205 --> 00:40:56,413 Thank you. 457 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,296 I'm obliged, Mr. Daniels... 458 00:41:04,547 --> 00:41:07,132 but I can find my own way out. 459 00:41:24,359 --> 00:41:25,692 Guard of honor! 460 00:41:27,445 --> 00:41:28,612 Guard of honor! 461 00:41:28,863 --> 00:41:30,656 Attention! 462 00:41:43,711 --> 00:41:46,213 Present arms! 463 00:41:51,678 --> 00:41:54,429 - My God, he loves it! - I'm sure he hates it. 464 00:41:54,889 --> 00:41:57,891 Generals' reputations are being made in France today... 465 00:41:58,101 --> 00:41:59,768 fighting on the Western front. 466 00:42:01,271 --> 00:42:03,981 Not as military governors in India. 467 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,693 What the devil's going on back there? 468 00:42:07,861 --> 00:42:10,737 Must be that Indian who made all that fuss in Africa. 469 00:42:10,989 --> 00:42:12,906 My cabin boy told me he was on board. 470 00:42:14,242 --> 00:42:15,492 There he is. 471 00:42:18,163 --> 00:42:20,330 God, he's dressed like a coolie! 472 00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:22,124 I thought he was a lawyer. 473 00:42:22,458 --> 00:42:25,919 Mr. Gandhi, have you refused to wear European clothes? 474 00:42:26,171 --> 00:42:27,754 No, I haven't refused. 475 00:42:28,006 --> 00:42:28,505 I simply wanted to dress the way my comrades in prison dress. 476 00:42:28,506 --> 00:42:31,091 I simply wanted to dress the way my comrades in prison dress. 477 00:42:31,342 --> 00:42:33,051 Will you support the war effort? 478 00:42:33,261 --> 00:42:38,098 If I wish to enjoy the benefits and protection of the British Empire... 479 00:42:38,349 --> 00:42:41,852 it would be wrong of me not to help in its defense. 480 00:42:42,020 --> 00:42:44,313 Now that you're back in India, what will you do? 481 00:42:44,522 --> 00:42:45,814 I don't know. 482 00:42:46,065 --> 00:42:47,816 - I don't know. - One more question. 483 00:42:48,067 --> 00:42:51,778 As an Indian woman, how could you accept the indignity of prison? 484 00:42:52,030 --> 00:42:55,032 My dignity comes from following my husband. 485 00:42:55,283 --> 00:42:56,575 Thank you very much. 486 00:43:03,541 --> 00:43:06,210 Just a few words, then we'll get you to civilization. 487 00:43:06,461 --> 00:43:07,586 May I? 488 00:43:19,057 --> 00:43:20,807 I'm glad to be home... 489 00:43:26,356 --> 00:43:28,273 and I thank you for your greeting. 490 00:43:47,126 --> 00:43:48,418 I'll follow with your wife. 491 00:43:48,670 --> 00:43:50,379 Don't worry. Everything's arranged. 492 00:43:54,592 --> 00:43:57,010 - Who's that young man? - That's young Nehru. 493 00:43:57,178 --> 00:44:00,013 He's got his father's intellect, his mother's good looks... 494 00:44:00,181 --> 00:44:01,556 and the devil's own charm. 495 00:44:01,808 --> 00:44:05,352 If they don't ruin him at Cambridge... Wave, wave! 496 00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:07,521 He might amount to something. 497 00:44:13,027 --> 00:44:17,864 I must say, when I first saw you as a bumbling lawyer here in Bombay... 498 00:44:18,032 --> 00:44:20,575 I never thought I'd greet you as a national hero. 499 00:44:20,743 --> 00:44:22,494 I'm hardly that, Mr. Patel. 500 00:44:22,787 --> 00:44:24,371 Yes, you are! 501 00:44:24,580 --> 00:44:27,499 It's been 200 years since an Indian cocked a snook... 502 00:44:27,750 --> 00:44:30,002 at the British Empire and got away with it. 503 00:44:30,211 --> 00:44:34,923 And stop calling me Mr. Patel. You're not a junior clerk anymore. 504 00:44:59,782 --> 00:45:03,994 The new military governor of the Northwest Province was on that ship. 505 00:45:04,287 --> 00:45:06,496 Too bad you came back third class. 506 00:45:06,664 --> 00:45:08,165 He might have been impressed... 507 00:45:08,416 --> 00:45:11,877 by a successful barrister who'd outmaneuvered General Smuts. 508 00:45:13,421 --> 00:45:14,838 Yes, I'm sure. 509 00:45:25,767 --> 00:45:28,310 Are you involved too, Mrs. Nehru? 510 00:45:29,062 --> 00:45:32,773 No. I leave practical matters to my husband... 511 00:45:33,024 --> 00:45:35,317 and revolution to my son. 512 00:45:35,610 --> 00:45:39,279 Mr. Gandhi, I'd like you to meet Mr. Jinnah, our joint host... 513 00:45:39,447 --> 00:45:41,823 member of congress and leader of the Muslim League. 514 00:45:41,991 --> 00:45:43,325 How do you do? 515 00:45:43,576 --> 00:45:45,702 And Mr. Prakash, who, I fear... 516 00:45:45,912 --> 00:45:49,247 is awaiting trial for sedition and inducement to murder. 517 00:45:50,291 --> 00:45:52,876 I have not actually pulled the trigger, Mr. Gandhi. 518 00:45:53,127 --> 00:45:54,336 I have simply written... 519 00:45:54,545 --> 00:45:57,881 if an Englishman kills an Indian for disobeying his law... 520 00:45:58,132 --> 00:46:00,384 it is an Indian's duty to kill an Englishman... 521 00:46:00,551 --> 00:46:02,928 for enforcing his law in a land that is not his. 522 00:46:03,304 --> 00:46:06,723 It's a clever argument. It may not produce the end you desire. 523 00:46:06,974 --> 00:46:11,311 We hope you'll join us in our struggle for home rule, Mr. Gandhi. 524 00:46:11,521 --> 00:46:15,565 Excuse me. May I, Mohan? There's someone I'd like him to meet. 525 00:46:15,817 --> 00:46:16,858 Excuse me. 526 00:46:19,153 --> 00:46:20,695 Sorry to rush you. 527 00:46:22,073 --> 00:46:24,616 He told the press he'd support the British in the war. 528 00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:26,535 That's nonviolence for you. 529 00:46:28,329 --> 00:46:29,704 You know, Mohan... 530 00:46:29,872 --> 00:46:32,040 now I have a confession to make. 531 00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:35,001 I didn't decide to come to South Africa. 532 00:46:35,211 --> 00:46:37,212 Professor Gokhale sent me. 533 00:46:38,965 --> 00:46:41,341 We are trying to make a nation, Gandhi. 534 00:46:41,592 --> 00:46:43,760 But the British keep trying to break us up... 535 00:46:43,761 --> 00:46:44,261 But the British keep trying to break us up... 536 00:46:44,554 --> 00:46:48,223 into religions, principalities, provinces. 537 00:46:49,058 --> 00:46:51,560 What you were writing in South Africa... 538 00:46:51,853 --> 00:46:53,311 that's what we need here. 539 00:46:53,563 --> 00:46:55,772 I have so much to learn about India. 540 00:46:55,982 --> 00:46:59,943 And I have to begin my practice again. One needs money to run a journal. 541 00:47:00,194 --> 00:47:03,530 Nonsense. Go on, Charlie. This is Indian talk. 542 00:47:03,990 --> 00:47:06,700 We want none of you imperialists here. 543 00:47:07,493 --> 00:47:10,704 All right, I'll go and write my report to the viceroy. 544 00:47:11,038 --> 00:47:13,373 You go and find a pretty Hindu woman... 545 00:47:13,666 --> 00:47:13,790 and convert her to Christianity. 546 00:47:13,791 --> 00:47:15,500 And convert her to Christianity. 547 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,503 That's as much mischief as you're allowed. 548 00:47:20,047 --> 00:47:22,632 Come, let's find a quiet corner. 549 00:47:23,801 --> 00:47:26,595 Now, you forget about your practice. 550 00:47:26,929 --> 00:47:28,889 You have other things to do. 551 00:47:29,849 --> 00:47:33,310 India has many men with too much wealth. 552 00:47:33,728 --> 00:47:37,689 And it's their privilege to nourish the effort of the few... 553 00:47:37,940 --> 00:47:41,776 who can raise India from servitude and apathy. 554 00:47:42,236 --> 00:47:43,695 I'll see to it. 555 00:47:44,030 --> 00:47:45,489 You begin your journal. 556 00:47:45,823 --> 00:47:46,990 I have little to say. 557 00:47:47,366 --> 00:47:49,075 Come, let's sit down. 558 00:47:49,327 --> 00:47:51,328 India is an alien country to me. 559 00:47:51,704 --> 00:47:52,954 Change that. 560 00:47:53,998 --> 00:47:56,416 Go and find India. 561 00:47:56,667 --> 00:47:58,043 Not what you see here... 562 00:47:58,252 --> 00:48:00,837 but the real India. 563 00:48:01,422 --> 00:48:03,924 You'll see what needs to be said... 564 00:48:04,592 --> 00:48:06,927 what we need to hear. 565 00:48:13,392 --> 00:48:15,810 When I saw you in that tunic, I knew. 566 00:48:17,939 --> 00:48:20,732 I knew I could die in peace. 567 00:48:22,151 --> 00:48:24,945 Make India proud of herself. 568 00:51:51,944 --> 00:51:54,404 Charlie, please. You're both being foolish. 569 00:51:54,613 --> 00:51:57,699 But the air is lovely. Anyway, there's no room in there. 570 00:51:57,950 --> 00:52:00,452 Please! Come in. 571 00:52:01,078 --> 00:52:02,454 No violence, please. 572 00:52:02,705 --> 00:52:05,999 Let me hang on with two hands or I will fall. 573 00:52:06,250 --> 00:52:07,542 Englishman, sahib! 574 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,669 Come, there is room up here! 575 00:52:12,631 --> 00:52:15,341 Put your foot on the window. Come! 576 00:52:22,183 --> 00:52:25,477 - What are you doing? - I'm going nearer to God. 577 00:52:27,980 --> 00:52:29,439 Charlie! Be careful! 578 00:52:29,899 --> 00:52:31,858 Let go. Let go! 579 00:52:32,902 --> 00:52:34,402 - Let go! - Oh, dear! 580 00:52:47,208 --> 00:52:49,083 Hello. 581 00:52:50,252 --> 00:52:53,046 You see? It is most comfortable. 582 00:52:53,297 --> 00:52:54,672 Sahib? 583 00:52:55,883 --> 00:52:56,925 Are you a Christian? 584 00:52:57,802 --> 00:52:59,385 Yes, I'm a Christian. 585 00:52:59,637 --> 00:53:01,179 I know a Christian. 586 00:53:01,931 --> 00:53:03,848 She drinks blood. 587 00:53:05,059 --> 00:53:07,101 Blood of Christ. Every Sunday. 588 00:53:11,649 --> 00:53:13,483 Charlie! 589 00:53:17,071 --> 00:53:19,072 It's all right, sahib. It's very safe. 590 00:53:19,865 --> 00:53:21,157 Bend! 591 00:53:24,703 --> 00:53:28,623 Pray to God, sahib. Now is when it is best to be Hindu. 592 00:53:29,500 --> 00:53:31,584 I agree with Jinnah. 593 00:53:32,086 --> 00:53:35,797 Now that the Americans are in, the war will be over soon. 594 00:53:36,048 --> 00:53:38,466 The Germans are worn out as it is. 595 00:53:38,968 --> 00:53:39,175 And our first act should be... 596 00:53:39,176 --> 00:53:41,010 And our first act should be... 597 00:53:41,679 --> 00:53:44,305 to convene a congress party convention... 598 00:53:44,807 --> 00:53:47,016 and demand independence. 599 00:53:47,268 --> 00:53:50,436 And we will speak with one voice, united. 600 00:53:52,314 --> 00:53:53,815 And we should invite Gandhi. 601 00:53:54,066 --> 00:53:55,817 What the devil's happened to him? 602 00:53:56,402 --> 00:53:58,194 He's discovering India. 603 00:53:58,404 --> 00:54:01,155 Which is better than making trouble where it matters. 604 00:54:01,407 --> 00:54:04,367 Invite him, let him say his piece about South Africa... 605 00:54:04,618 --> 00:54:06,786 then let him slip into oblivion. 606 00:54:36,984 --> 00:54:38,151 Insurgents. 607 00:54:38,444 --> 00:54:40,069 They've derailed a troop train. 608 00:54:41,780 --> 00:54:43,489 Keep clear! Come on. 609 00:54:49,580 --> 00:54:51,873 They've killed an English soldier. 610 00:54:59,673 --> 00:55:02,550 We were asked for toleration. 611 00:55:03,052 --> 00:55:05,845 We were asked for patience. 612 00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:08,014 Some of us gave it... 613 00:55:08,265 --> 00:55:10,391 and some did not. 614 00:55:10,601 --> 00:55:14,270 Well, their war is over. 615 00:55:15,230 --> 00:55:17,690 And those of us who supported it... 616 00:55:17,942 --> 00:55:20,443 and those of us who refused... 617 00:55:20,694 --> 00:55:24,030 must forget our differences. 618 00:55:24,531 --> 00:55:27,575 And there can be no excuses... 619 00:55:27,785 --> 00:55:30,078 from the British now. 620 00:55:30,329 --> 00:55:33,831 India wants... home rule. 621 00:55:34,083 --> 00:55:35,166 India... 622 00:55:35,417 --> 00:55:37,418 demands home rule! 623 00:55:53,894 --> 00:55:55,603 Congratulations. 624 00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,700 And let no one question... 625 00:56:08,909 --> 00:56:10,910 that Mr. Jinnah speaks... 626 00:56:11,161 --> 00:56:13,329 not just for the Muslims... 627 00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:14,622 but for all India! 628 00:56:21,672 --> 00:56:25,591 And now... I'm going to introduce to you... 629 00:56:25,801 --> 00:56:27,760 a man whose writings... 630 00:56:28,012 --> 00:56:30,096 we are all becoming familiar with. 631 00:56:30,305 --> 00:56:34,434 A man who stood in high esteem with our own beloved Gokhale. 632 00:56:34,685 --> 00:56:37,353 A man whose accomplishments in South Africa... 633 00:56:37,521 --> 00:56:39,105 will always be remembered. 634 00:56:39,398 --> 00:56:41,399 Mr. Mohandas Gandhi! 635 00:56:43,569 --> 00:56:45,653 Your journal has made great impact. 636 00:56:45,863 --> 00:56:48,197 I'm flattered by Mr. Patel. 637 00:56:48,449 --> 00:56:51,492 I would be even more flattered if what he said were true. 638 00:56:51,744 --> 00:56:52,952 But it is true. 639 00:56:53,203 --> 00:56:55,580 I read it. Often! 640 00:57:07,509 --> 00:57:11,012 Since I returned from South Africa... 641 00:57:13,057 --> 00:57:15,933 I've traveled over much of India. 642 00:57:16,685 --> 00:57:20,688 And I know that I could travel for many more years... 643 00:57:20,981 --> 00:57:24,150 and still only see a small part of her. 644 00:57:24,860 --> 00:57:27,028 And yet, I already know... 645 00:57:27,321 --> 00:57:29,155 that what we say here... 646 00:57:29,406 --> 00:57:33,201 means nothing to the masses of our country. 647 00:57:33,827 --> 00:57:37,371 Here, we make speeches for each other... 648 00:57:38,123 --> 00:57:42,168 and those English liberal magazines that may grant us a few lines. 649 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,839 But the people of India... 650 00:57:47,091 --> 00:57:48,382 are... 651 00:57:49,093 --> 00:57:50,384 untouched. 652 00:57:51,345 --> 00:57:54,514 Their politics are confined to bread... 653 00:57:54,848 --> 00:57:56,182 and salt. 654 00:57:56,642 --> 00:57:58,810 Illiterate they may be, but they're not blind. 655 00:57:59,061 --> 00:58:02,313 They see no reason to give their loyalty to rich and powerful men... 656 00:58:02,606 --> 00:58:05,691 who simply want to take over the role of the British... 657 00:58:05,901 --> 00:58:07,735 in the name of freedom. 658 00:58:09,446 --> 00:58:12,281 This congress tells the world... 659 00:58:12,491 --> 00:58:14,659 it represents India. 660 00:58:15,744 --> 00:58:17,036 My brothers... 661 00:58:17,496 --> 00:58:22,291 India... is 700,000 villages... 662 00:58:23,710 --> 00:58:26,337 not a few hundred lawyers in Delhi... 663 00:58:26,505 --> 00:58:28,089 and Bombay. 664 00:58:28,799 --> 00:58:31,509 Until we stand in the fields... 665 00:58:31,718 --> 00:58:35,638 with the millions that toil each day under the hot sun... 666 00:58:36,515 --> 00:58:39,684 we will not represent India. 667 00:58:39,893 --> 00:58:43,604 Nor will we ever be able to challenge the British... 668 00:58:44,189 --> 00:58:45,898 as one nation. 669 00:59:03,167 --> 00:59:04,750 Have you read his magazine? 670 00:59:05,377 --> 00:59:06,502 No. 671 00:59:07,254 --> 00:59:08,838 But I think I'm going to. 672 00:59:13,427 --> 00:59:14,886 Pull over. 673 00:59:15,095 --> 00:59:16,679 This can't be the way. 674 00:59:16,972 --> 00:59:20,600 Yes, I'm sure this is the direction India is taking. 675 00:59:21,810 --> 00:59:24,604 To think I almost got excited by Mr. Jinnah... 676 00:59:24,813 --> 00:59:26,898 when all this was awaiting me. 677 00:59:46,126 --> 00:59:47,877 We're looking for Mr. Gandhi. 678 00:59:50,964 --> 00:59:53,507 - You'll find him under that tree. - Thank you. 679 00:59:54,593 --> 00:59:56,969 I'm anxious to meet this new force. 680 00:59:57,429 --> 01:00:00,598 I try to live like an Indian, as you see. 681 01:00:00,849 --> 01:00:02,892 It's stupid, of course. 682 01:00:03,143 --> 01:00:04,685 Because in our country... 683 01:00:04,895 --> 01:00:07,438 it is the British who decide how an Indian lives... 684 01:00:08,315 --> 01:00:10,566 what he may buy, what he may sell. 685 01:00:10,776 --> 01:00:12,568 And from their luxury... 686 01:00:12,819 --> 01:00:16,572 in the midst of our terrible poverty... 687 01:00:17,491 --> 01:00:21,118 they instruct us on what is justice, what is sedition. 688 01:00:21,370 --> 01:00:25,373 So it's only natural that our best young minds... 689 01:00:25,624 --> 01:00:28,459 assume an air of Eastern dignity... 690 01:00:28,710 --> 01:00:30,378 while greedily assimilating... 691 01:00:30,587 --> 01:00:34,423 every Western weakness as quickly as they can acquire it. 692 01:00:37,761 --> 01:00:39,470 If we have home rule... 693 01:00:40,222 --> 01:00:41,305 that'll change. 694 01:00:45,435 --> 01:00:47,311 Would you, please? 695 01:00:48,397 --> 01:00:51,023 Why should the British grant us home rule? 696 01:00:52,985 --> 01:00:55,569 We must take the peelings to the goats. 697 01:00:56,154 --> 01:01:00,574 We only make wild speeches or perform even wilder acts of terrorism. 698 01:01:00,909 --> 01:01:02,576 We've bred an army of anarchists... 699 01:01:02,744 --> 01:01:06,038 but not one group that can fight the British anywhere. 700 01:01:06,290 --> 01:01:08,165 Hello! Hello! 701 01:01:08,375 --> 01:01:10,251 But I thought you were against fighting. 702 01:01:10,502 --> 01:01:13,671 Now just spread it around. 703 01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:15,423 There you are. 704 01:01:15,799 --> 01:01:19,468 They like the new peelings mixed in with the rotting ones. 705 01:01:21,638 --> 01:01:24,765 Where there's injustice, I always believed in fighting. 706 01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:29,353 The question is, do you fight to change things or to punish? 707 01:01:29,563 --> 01:01:33,399 I've found we're all such sinners, we should leave punishment to God. 708 01:01:33,650 --> 01:01:36,277 And if we really want to change things... 709 01:01:36,903 --> 01:01:39,030 there are better ways of doing it... 710 01:01:39,281 --> 01:01:42,658 than derailing trains or slashing someone with a sword. 711 01:01:42,868 --> 01:01:44,618 The fire is ready. 712 01:01:45,787 --> 01:01:47,872 You see, even here... 713 01:01:49,082 --> 01:01:50,875 we live under tyranny. 714 01:01:57,424 --> 01:02:00,176 What did I tell you? Look at him! 715 01:02:00,886 --> 01:02:03,304 I can see the British shaking now. 716 01:02:20,864 --> 01:02:22,615 Hello! 717 01:02:22,866 --> 01:02:25,701 I'm looking for Mr. Gandhi. 718 01:02:27,871 --> 01:02:31,374 I've been trying to speak to you for a long time. 719 01:02:33,710 --> 01:02:35,294 Our crops. 720 01:02:35,545 --> 01:02:37,296 We cannot sell them. 721 01:02:38,632 --> 01:02:40,007 We have no money. 722 01:02:40,509 --> 01:02:43,344 But the landlords still demand the same rent. 723 01:02:44,930 --> 01:02:47,390 We have nothing left. 724 01:03:30,517 --> 01:03:33,269 Mr. Taylor, sir. Up here! 725 01:03:45,574 --> 01:03:46,866 Jesus! 726 01:03:48,034 --> 01:03:49,869 What the hell is going on? 727 01:03:50,579 --> 01:03:52,246 I don't know, sir. 728 01:03:57,252 --> 01:03:58,711 The agent got a telegram. 729 01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,673 And it just said, "He is coming," and gave the time of the train. 730 01:04:08,472 --> 01:04:10,806 Who the hell is "he"? 731 01:04:12,017 --> 01:04:13,058 I don't know, sir. 732 01:04:37,334 --> 01:04:39,210 Out of the way. Come on, you! 733 01:04:44,174 --> 01:04:48,260 - Who the devil are you? - My name is Mohandas K. Gandhi. 734 01:04:48,428 --> 01:04:50,304 Whoever you are, we don't want you here. 735 01:04:51,014 --> 01:04:53,557 I suggest you get back on that train before it leaves. 736 01:04:54,226 --> 01:04:55,684 They seem to want me. 737 01:04:55,936 --> 01:04:56,977 Now, look here. 738 01:04:57,187 --> 01:04:59,230 I'll put you under arrest if you'd prefer. 739 01:05:00,190 --> 01:05:01,357 On what charge? 740 01:05:05,737 --> 01:05:07,321 I don't want any trouble. 741 01:05:07,531 --> 01:05:12,159 I'm an Indian traveling in my own country. I see no reason for trouble. 742 01:05:14,788 --> 01:05:16,914 Well, there had better not be. 743 01:05:21,294 --> 01:05:23,170 Make way for the officer. 744 01:05:42,607 --> 01:05:44,233 For years... 745 01:05:44,776 --> 01:05:46,986 the landlords have ordered us... 746 01:05:47,195 --> 01:05:48,529 to grow indigo... 747 01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:50,739 for dyeing cloth. 748 01:05:51,616 --> 01:05:55,494 Always, they took part of the crop as rent. 749 01:05:56,496 --> 01:05:57,580 But now... 750 01:05:58,164 --> 01:06:02,209 everyone buys their cloth from England. 751 01:06:02,419 --> 01:06:03,627 So no one wants... 752 01:06:04,212 --> 01:06:06,338 our indigo. 753 01:06:06,923 --> 01:06:08,007 The landlords... 754 01:06:08,341 --> 01:06:11,093 say we must pay our rent... 755 01:06:11,344 --> 01:06:12,761 in cash. 756 01:06:14,723 --> 01:06:16,140 What we could... 757 01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:18,225 we sold. 758 01:06:18,476 --> 01:06:21,270 The police have taken the rest. 759 01:06:22,105 --> 01:06:25,524 There is... no food. 760 01:06:26,610 --> 01:06:28,652 I understand. 761 01:06:31,114 --> 01:06:32,489 The landlords are British? 762 01:06:43,001 --> 01:06:44,918 What we can do, we will try to do. 763 01:07:05,148 --> 01:07:08,901 Shukla... is all Champaran like this? 764 01:07:09,569 --> 01:07:11,028 Yes, Bapu. 765 01:07:11,363 --> 01:07:13,030 The whole region. 766 01:07:13,531 --> 01:07:15,908 Hundreds. Thousands. 767 01:07:18,578 --> 01:07:20,913 Some landlords have tried to help. 768 01:07:21,414 --> 01:07:23,290 But what can they do? 769 01:07:38,181 --> 01:07:40,974 - Are you Mr. M.K. Gandhi? - Yes. 770 01:07:41,184 --> 01:07:43,227 I'm sorry, you're under arrest. 771 01:07:44,104 --> 01:07:45,479 I'm not sorry at all. 772 01:07:55,865 --> 01:07:58,325 Who did you say would be buying the drinks? 773 01:08:01,746 --> 01:08:03,247 Oh, no! 774 01:08:09,587 --> 01:08:13,340 Wouldn't you know, that's the best innings I've had since Oxford. 775 01:08:13,633 --> 01:08:16,468 - India's full of grief, old man. - I've got no idea. 776 01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,305 All I know is there's a riot or something at Motihari in Champaran. 777 01:08:20,473 --> 01:08:22,015 The whole company's ordered out. 778 01:08:39,909 --> 01:08:41,618 I would like to see the prisoner. 779 01:08:53,673 --> 01:08:55,257 On the left, sir. 780 01:09:03,475 --> 01:09:05,100 - Charlie. - Shades of South Africa. 781 01:09:05,101 --> 01:09:06,769 - Charlie. - Shades of South Africa. 782 01:09:07,020 --> 01:09:08,103 Not quite. 783 01:09:08,480 --> 01:09:10,063 They're only holding me... 784 01:09:10,273 --> 01:09:12,399 until the magistrate's hearing. 785 01:09:12,650 --> 01:09:14,651 Then it will be prison. 786 01:09:17,363 --> 01:09:19,072 Did they take your clothes? 787 01:09:20,700 --> 01:09:22,367 These are my clothes now. 788 01:09:24,329 --> 01:09:27,456 You always had a puritanical streak, Mohan. 789 01:09:28,208 --> 01:09:30,042 If I want to be one with them... 790 01:09:30,460 --> 01:09:32,002 I have to live like them. 791 01:09:32,212 --> 01:09:33,545 Yes, I think you do. 792 01:09:34,672 --> 01:09:36,840 But thank God we all don't. 793 01:09:37,091 --> 01:09:39,051 My puritanism runs in a different way. 794 01:09:39,302 --> 01:09:41,261 I'm far too modest for such a display. 795 01:09:47,644 --> 01:09:50,729 Couldn't I be let in with the prisoner? I am a clergyman. 796 01:10:04,369 --> 01:10:05,869 They're calling you "Bapu." 797 01:10:06,162 --> 01:10:07,788 I thought it meant "father." 798 01:10:08,456 --> 01:10:09,915 It does. 799 01:10:10,917 --> 01:10:12,960 We must be getting old, Charlie. 800 01:10:16,047 --> 01:10:17,506 What do you want me to do? 801 01:10:21,052 --> 01:10:22,761 I think that you can help us most... 802 01:10:22,971 --> 01:10:26,390 by taking that assignment you've been offered in Fiji. 803 01:10:29,602 --> 01:10:31,478 I have to be sure... 804 01:10:32,105 --> 01:10:34,147 They have to be sure that what we do... 805 01:10:34,357 --> 01:10:37,609 can be done by Indians alone. 806 01:10:49,414 --> 01:10:50,998 But you know the strategy. 807 01:10:51,207 --> 01:10:54,501 The world is full of people who will despise what's happening here. 808 01:10:54,794 --> 01:10:56,461 It is their strength that we need. 809 01:10:56,671 --> 01:10:58,046 Before you go... 810 01:10:58,965 --> 01:11:02,259 you could start us in the right direction. 811 01:11:11,936 --> 01:11:13,854 I must leave from Calcutta... 812 01:11:14,981 --> 01:11:16,648 and soon. 813 01:11:19,402 --> 01:11:21,069 Say goodbye to Ba for me. 814 01:11:26,075 --> 01:11:27,159 Well, I... 815 01:11:28,828 --> 01:11:31,288 There are no goodbyes for us, Charlie. 816 01:11:32,332 --> 01:11:35,417 Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. 817 01:11:56,564 --> 01:11:59,816 - I'm going to clear the courtroom. - I'm not sure we'd be able to. 818 01:11:59,984 --> 01:12:02,361 It is a first hearing. It's supposed to be public. 819 01:12:02,612 --> 01:12:04,404 And he's a lawyer. 820 01:12:05,573 --> 01:12:07,449 I don't know where they found the nerve. 821 01:12:07,617 --> 01:12:10,619 I don't either, but the troops won't be here till tomorrow. 822 01:12:10,954 --> 01:12:13,288 How did the press get here before the military? 823 01:12:13,581 --> 01:12:16,416 That English clergyman sent a number of telegrams yesterday. 824 01:12:16,584 --> 01:12:19,836 I understand one of them even went to the viceroy. 825 01:12:33,059 --> 01:12:35,143 You have been ordered out of the province... 826 01:12:35,395 --> 01:12:37,938 on the grounds of disturbing the peace. 827 01:12:44,654 --> 01:12:46,738 With respect, I refuse to go. 828 01:12:49,617 --> 01:12:51,994 Do you want to go to jail? 829 01:12:52,245 --> 01:12:53,453 As you wish. 830 01:12:58,876 --> 01:12:59,918 All right. 831 01:13:01,087 --> 01:13:02,838 I will release you on bail... 832 01:13:03,089 --> 01:13:06,967 of 100 rupees until I reach a sentence. 833 01:13:09,887 --> 01:13:12,097 I refuse to pay 100 rupees. 834 01:13:22,483 --> 01:13:24,443 Then I will grant release on bail... 835 01:13:24,694 --> 01:13:28,447 without payment until I reach a decision. 836 01:13:54,724 --> 01:13:55,849 Gandhiji! Gandhiji! 837 01:14:02,398 --> 01:14:03,648 We are from Bihar. 838 01:14:04,192 --> 01:14:06,401 We received a cable from an old friend... 839 01:14:06,611 --> 01:14:08,320 who was at Cambridge with us. 840 01:14:08,529 --> 01:14:09,863 His name is Nehru. 841 01:14:10,114 --> 01:14:12,157 - I believe you know him. - Indeed. 842 01:14:12,450 --> 01:14:15,827 He tells us you need help, and we have come to give it. 843 01:14:17,872 --> 01:14:22,459 I want to document coldly, rationally, what is being done here. 844 01:14:22,752 --> 01:14:24,044 It may take months. 845 01:14:24,295 --> 01:14:25,837 We have no pressing engagements. 846 01:14:26,089 --> 01:14:28,715 You will have to live with the peasants. 847 01:14:29,300 --> 01:14:31,009 There will be risks. 848 01:14:49,987 --> 01:14:51,988 I don't know what this country's coming to. 849 01:14:52,156 --> 01:14:53,281 But good God, man! 850 01:14:53,449 --> 01:14:57,202 You yourself raised the rent simply to finance a hunting expedition. 851 01:14:58,371 --> 01:15:01,748 And some of these others: Beatings, illegal seizures... 852 01:15:01,999 --> 01:15:04,042 demanding services without pay. 853 01:15:04,293 --> 01:15:05,460 Even refusing them water. 854 01:15:05,461 --> 01:15:06,628 Even refusing them water. 855 01:15:07,171 --> 01:15:08,588 In India! 856 01:15:08,756 --> 01:15:11,591 Nobody knows what it is to try to get these people to work. 857 01:15:11,759 --> 01:15:13,885 You've made this half-naked whatever-he-is... 858 01:15:14,053 --> 01:15:16,429 into an international hero. 859 01:15:16,639 --> 01:15:20,725 "One lone man, marching dusty roads, armed only with honesty... 860 01:15:20,977 --> 01:15:24,437 and a bamboo staff, doing battle with the British Empire." 861 01:15:24,689 --> 01:15:27,941 At home, children are writing essays about him. 862 01:15:29,694 --> 01:15:32,320 What do they want? 863 01:15:32,572 --> 01:15:33,780 Gareth! 864 01:15:35,199 --> 01:15:36,491 Yes, sir. 865 01:15:36,742 --> 01:15:38,910 There's a rebate on rents paid. 866 01:15:39,412 --> 01:15:41,913 They're to be free to grow crops of their own choice. 867 01:15:42,331 --> 01:15:46,501 And a commission, part Indian, to hear grievances. 868 01:15:49,881 --> 01:15:52,883 That would satisfy him? 869 01:15:53,384 --> 01:15:54,885 And His Majesty's government. 870 01:15:55,761 --> 01:15:58,305 It only needs your signature for the landlords. 871 01:16:07,523 --> 01:16:09,858 It'll be worth it to see the back of him. 872 01:16:13,362 --> 01:16:14,863 Thank you, sir. 873 01:16:16,115 --> 01:16:18,950 - We're too damned liberal. - Perhaps. 874 01:16:19,994 --> 01:16:24,039 At least this has made the government see some sense about what men... 875 01:16:24,290 --> 01:16:27,876 like Mr. Gandhi should be allowed, and what they should be denied. 876 01:16:42,808 --> 01:16:44,684 Where is Mr. Gandhi? 877 01:16:45,394 --> 01:16:47,729 He said he preferred to walk, sir. 878 01:16:47,980 --> 01:16:51,775 I followed him most of the way. He's just turned the corner. 879 01:16:52,276 --> 01:16:54,277 He came third class. 880 01:16:55,154 --> 01:16:57,822 God, give me patience. 881 01:17:02,787 --> 01:17:04,621 My house is honored. 882 01:17:04,872 --> 01:17:06,414 The honor is ours. 883 01:17:06,624 --> 01:17:09,334 I'd like you to meet Dr. Kallenbach, an old friend. 884 01:17:09,543 --> 01:17:13,672 He's interested in flowers. I told him he could wander your garden. 885 01:17:14,173 --> 01:17:15,590 I'll send for my gardener. You'll have plenty to discuss. 886 01:17:15,591 --> 01:17:17,133 I'll send for my gardener. You'll have plenty to discuss. 887 01:17:17,385 --> 01:17:18,885 Thank you. 888 01:17:22,932 --> 01:17:25,475 Gentlemen, the hero of Champaran. 889 01:17:25,726 --> 01:17:28,061 Only the stubborn man of Champaran. 890 01:17:28,312 --> 01:17:30,397 Mr. Patel you know. 891 01:17:30,648 --> 01:17:33,233 Maulana Azad, my colleague and a fellow Muslim... 892 01:17:33,442 --> 01:17:36,278 and just recently released from prison. 893 01:17:38,155 --> 01:17:39,531 Mr. Kripalani. 894 01:17:40,658 --> 01:17:43,910 And of course, you know Mr. Nehru. 895 01:17:44,787 --> 01:17:47,038 I'm beginning to know Mr. Nehru. 896 01:17:47,290 --> 01:17:49,374 Please sit down. Do sit down. 897 01:17:49,625 --> 01:17:54,004 Gentlemen, I've asked you to come here through Mr. Jinnah's kindness... 898 01:17:54,213 --> 01:17:57,048 because I've had the chance to see the legislation. 899 01:17:57,258 --> 01:17:59,426 And it is exactly as was rumored. 900 01:17:59,844 --> 01:18:03,179 Arrest without warrant, and automatic imprisonment... 901 01:18:03,389 --> 01:18:05,974 for possession of materials considered seditious. 902 01:18:06,392 --> 01:18:09,728 And your writings are specifically listed. 903 01:18:10,271 --> 01:18:12,272 So much for helping them in the Great War. 904 01:18:12,481 --> 01:18:16,109 There is only one answer. Direct action on a scale... 905 01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,111 they can never handle. 906 01:18:19,113 --> 01:18:20,572 I don't think so. 907 01:18:21,032 --> 01:18:24,576 Terrorism would only justify their repression. 908 01:18:25,453 --> 01:18:27,912 And what kind of leaders would it throw up? 909 01:18:29,248 --> 01:18:32,000 Are they men that we'd want at the head of our country? 910 01:18:32,251 --> 01:18:35,295 I too have read Mr. Gandhi's writings... 911 01:18:35,546 --> 01:18:39,174 but I'd rather be ruled by an Indian terrorist than an English one. 912 01:18:39,383 --> 01:18:41,760 And I don't intend to submit to that kind of law. 913 01:18:41,969 --> 01:18:44,095 I must say, it seems to me... 914 01:18:44,347 --> 01:18:49,184 that it's gone beyond remedies like passive resistance. 915 01:18:50,061 --> 01:18:51,311 If I may... 916 01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:55,023 I, for one, have never advocated passive anything. 917 01:18:57,568 --> 01:19:01,029 I'm with Mr. Jinnah. We must never submit to such laws... 918 01:19:01,489 --> 01:19:02,739 ever. 919 01:19:03,824 --> 01:19:08,912 And I think our resistance must be active and provocative. 920 01:19:11,165 --> 01:19:12,207 May I? 921 01:19:14,502 --> 01:19:18,213 I want to embarrass all those who wish to treat us as slaves. 922 01:19:19,924 --> 01:19:21,299 Thank you. 923 01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,304 All of them. 924 01:19:26,972 --> 01:19:29,224 - Forgive my stupid illustration. - Allow me. 925 01:19:29,475 --> 01:19:31,142 No, please. 926 01:19:31,352 --> 01:19:33,478 But I want to change their minds... 927 01:19:33,687 --> 01:19:37,148 not kill them for weaknesses we all possess. 928 01:19:39,944 --> 01:19:42,320 And what resistance would you offer? 929 01:19:43,072 --> 01:19:46,741 The law is due to take effect from April 6. 930 01:19:47,243 --> 01:19:48,910 I want to call upon the nation... 931 01:19:49,161 --> 01:19:52,956 to make that a day of prayer and fasting. 932 01:19:53,207 --> 01:19:54,290 A general strike? 933 01:19:55,709 --> 01:19:58,336 I mean a day of prayer and fasting. 934 01:19:58,587 --> 01:20:02,048 Of course, no work could be done. No buses. 935 01:20:03,050 --> 01:20:04,300 No trains. 936 01:20:04,552 --> 01:20:05,969 No factories. 937 01:20:06,220 --> 01:20:07,804 No administration. 938 01:20:09,014 --> 01:20:10,723 The country would stop. 939 01:20:12,184 --> 01:20:14,727 My God, it would terrify them! 940 01:20:15,604 --> 01:20:17,772 350 million people at prayer? 941 01:20:18,482 --> 01:20:21,192 Even the English newspapers would have to report that... 942 01:20:21,569 --> 01:20:23,236 and explain why. 943 01:20:23,487 --> 01:20:26,030 - But could we get people to do it? - Why not? 944 01:20:26,949 --> 01:20:29,284 Champaran stirred the whole country. 945 01:20:30,703 --> 01:20:32,412 Thank you. 946 01:20:32,913 --> 01:20:34,831 They're calling you "Mahatma." 947 01:20:35,749 --> 01:20:37,208 "Great Soul." 948 01:20:38,335 --> 01:20:40,795 Fortunately, such news comes very slowly to where I live. 949 01:20:40,796 --> 01:20:43,037 Fortunately, such news comes very slowly to where I live. 950 01:20:44,925 --> 01:20:47,677 I think if we all worked to publicize it... 951 01:20:47,928 --> 01:20:49,137 all of congress... 952 01:20:49,722 --> 01:20:51,473 every avenue we know... 953 01:20:51,807 --> 01:20:56,186 I could get articles printed in most of the papers in Delhi and Bombay. 954 01:20:56,211 --> 01:20:58,211 SharePirate.Com-Movie Stream and Downloads 955 01:21:06,864 --> 01:21:09,949 Only civilians will visit. Don't you think so, Your Highness? 956 01:21:10,159 --> 01:21:13,036 Of course, the army will always be loyal. 957 01:21:13,245 --> 01:21:16,122 I'll have you know, we've got 500 troops. 958 01:21:19,418 --> 01:21:23,213 They'll be damn hungry by morning, I'll tell you that. 959 01:21:28,219 --> 01:21:31,638 Excuse me, Your Excellency. Mr. Kinnoch. 960 01:21:32,348 --> 01:21:34,307 Sir, I'm afraid it's confirmed. 961 01:21:35,392 --> 01:21:36,684 Nothing's working, sir. 962 01:21:36,936 --> 01:21:39,604 The buses, the trains, the markets. 963 01:21:39,980 --> 01:21:40,855 There's not even any ordinary civilian staff here, sir. 964 01:21:40,856 --> 01:21:43,017 There's not even any ordinary civilian staff here, sir. 965 01:21:43,067 --> 01:21:45,527 Is it simply Delhi and Bombay? 966 01:21:45,778 --> 01:21:48,988 Karachi, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore. It's total. 967 01:21:49,448 --> 01:21:52,242 The army had to take over the telegraph... 968 01:21:53,452 --> 01:21:55,328 or we'd be cut off from the world. 969 01:22:01,126 --> 01:22:02,752 I can't believe it. 970 01:22:02,962 --> 01:22:05,672 He's going to sell his own paper tomorrow in Bombay, sir. 971 01:22:05,839 --> 01:22:09,175 They've called for a parade on Victoria Road. 972 01:22:09,802 --> 01:22:10,969 Arrest him. 973 01:22:18,227 --> 01:22:20,645 He's to go to the visitors' room. 974 01:22:38,956 --> 01:22:40,164 Bapu. 975 01:22:41,166 --> 01:22:42,750 You too? 976 01:22:44,086 --> 01:22:47,130 It seems less formal than Mahatma. 977 01:22:55,514 --> 01:22:58,850 Since your arrest, the riots have hardly stopped. 978 01:22:59,518 --> 01:23:01,936 Not big, but they keep breaking out. 979 01:23:02,187 --> 01:23:03,688 I want to stop them. 980 01:23:04,440 --> 01:23:08,610 And Patel and Kripalani, they're never at rest. 981 01:23:09,737 --> 01:23:13,406 But some English civilians have been killed. 982 01:23:16,410 --> 01:23:19,370 And the army is attacking crowds with clubs. 983 01:23:21,290 --> 01:23:22,915 Sometimes worse. 984 01:23:28,797 --> 01:23:30,715 Maybe I'm wrong. 985 01:23:31,425 --> 01:23:33,760 Maybe we're not ready yet. 986 01:23:34,970 --> 01:23:37,388 In South Africa, our numbers were small. 987 01:23:42,686 --> 01:23:45,938 The government's afraid. They don't know what to do. 988 01:23:46,649 --> 01:23:49,275 They're more afraid of terrorism than of you. 989 01:23:49,777 --> 01:23:54,113 The viceroy's agreed to your release if you will speak for nonviolence. 990 01:23:57,076 --> 01:23:59,869 I've never spoken for anything else. 991 01:24:25,771 --> 01:24:27,063 England... 992 01:24:27,398 --> 01:24:29,065 is so powerful. 993 01:24:29,942 --> 01:24:32,568 Its army... and its navy... 994 01:24:33,362 --> 01:24:35,363 all its modern weapons... 995 01:24:36,490 --> 01:24:38,616 But when a great power like that... 996 01:24:39,576 --> 01:24:41,661 strikes defenseless people... 997 01:24:42,454 --> 01:24:45,331 it shows its brutality... 998 01:24:45,582 --> 01:24:46,624 its own weakness. 999 01:24:46,875 --> 01:24:49,711 Especially when those people do not strike back. 1000 01:25:18,699 --> 01:25:20,867 Fighting back will not work. 1001 01:25:21,118 --> 01:25:23,327 And that is why the Mahatma... 1002 01:25:24,204 --> 01:25:27,123 begs us to take the course of nonviolence. 1003 01:25:58,322 --> 01:26:01,073 Back away! Back away! 1004 01:26:10,751 --> 01:26:12,335 But if we riot... 1005 01:26:12,961 --> 01:26:14,545 if we fight back... 1006 01:26:16,381 --> 01:26:17,965 we become the vandals... 1007 01:26:18,217 --> 01:26:19,634 and they become the law. 1008 01:26:20,719 --> 01:26:25,264 If we bear their blows, they are the vandals. 1009 01:26:26,517 --> 01:26:28,893 God and his law are on our... 1010 01:26:59,216 --> 01:27:01,759 Front rank, kneel in position! 1011 01:27:05,055 --> 01:27:06,556 We... 1012 01:27:06,974 --> 01:27:09,308 must have the courage... 1013 01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:11,769 to take their anger. 1014 01:27:24,992 --> 01:27:26,826 Should we issue a warning, sir? 1015 01:27:29,162 --> 01:27:30,955 They've had their warning: 1016 01:27:31,790 --> 01:27:33,457 No meetings. 1017 01:27:37,504 --> 01:27:39,171 Fire! 1018 01:28:11,121 --> 01:28:13,247 Take your time! 1019 01:28:34,978 --> 01:28:36,145 Corporal! 1020 01:28:36,563 --> 01:28:37,939 To your left. 1021 01:29:26,488 --> 01:29:27,947 General Dyer... 1022 01:29:29,116 --> 01:29:31,867 is it correct that you ordered your troops to fire... 1023 01:29:32,077 --> 01:29:34,453 at the thickest part of the crowd? 1024 01:29:35,038 --> 01:29:36,831 That is so. 1025 01:29:41,712 --> 01:29:44,714 1516 casualties with... 1026 01:29:46,299 --> 01:29:49,844 1650 bullets. 1027 01:29:50,262 --> 01:29:52,096 My intention was to inflict a lesson... 1028 01:29:52,264 --> 01:29:55,224 that would have an impact throughout all India. 1029 01:30:00,564 --> 01:30:01,689 General... 1030 01:30:03,150 --> 01:30:07,111 had you been able to take in the armored car... 1031 01:30:07,738 --> 01:30:10,197 would you have opened fire with the machine gun? 1032 01:30:14,661 --> 01:30:16,120 I think, probably, yes. 1033 01:30:19,624 --> 01:30:23,919 General, did you realize there were children and women in the crowd? 1034 01:30:25,297 --> 01:30:26,714 I did. 1035 01:30:27,674 --> 01:30:30,384 But that was irrelevant to the point you were making? 1036 01:30:30,635 --> 01:30:32,261 That is correct. 1037 01:30:38,852 --> 01:30:42,730 Could I ask you what provision you made for the wounded? 1038 01:30:46,651 --> 01:30:49,070 I was ready to help any who applied. 1039 01:30:51,448 --> 01:30:54,200 General, how does a child... 1040 01:30:54,701 --> 01:30:57,244 shot with a.303 Lee-Enfield... 1041 01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,247 apply for help? 1042 01:34:47,182 --> 01:34:50,643 Forgive me, gentlemen, but you must understand... 1043 01:34:51,228 --> 01:34:55,898 that His Majesty's government and the British people repudiate... 1044 01:34:56,150 --> 01:35:00,445 both the massacre and the philosophy that prompted it. 1045 01:35:00,904 --> 01:35:04,490 Now... what I would like to do... 1046 01:35:04,908 --> 01:35:09,329 is to come to some compromise over the new... 1047 01:35:09,538 --> 01:35:12,040 If you will excuse me, Your Excellency... 1048 01:35:12,291 --> 01:35:15,460 it is our view that matters have gone beyond legislation. 1049 01:35:16,003 --> 01:35:17,795 We think it is time you recognized... 1050 01:35:18,005 --> 01:35:21,090 that you are masters in someone else's home. 1051 01:35:23,093 --> 01:35:25,428 Despite the best intentions of the best of you... 1052 01:35:25,596 --> 01:35:29,640 you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. 1053 01:35:30,684 --> 01:35:34,645 General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle. 1054 01:35:35,689 --> 01:35:37,357 It is time you left. 1055 01:35:41,695 --> 01:35:43,946 With respect, Mr. Gandhi... 1056 01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:46,324 without British administration... 1057 01:35:46,533 --> 01:35:48,576 this country would be reduced to chaos. 1058 01:35:48,911 --> 01:35:50,203 Mr. Kinnoch... 1059 01:35:52,247 --> 01:35:54,624 I beg you to accept that there is no people... 1060 01:35:54,792 --> 01:35:57,210 who would not prefer their own bad government... 1061 01:35:57,419 --> 01:35:59,712 to the good government of an alien power. 1062 01:35:59,922 --> 01:36:02,715 My dear sir, India is British. 1063 01:36:02,966 --> 01:36:05,259 We're hardly an alien power. 1064 01:36:11,433 --> 01:36:12,517 Mr. Gandhi. 1065 01:36:12,684 --> 01:36:17,647 Even if His Majesty could waive all other considerations... 1066 01:36:17,898 --> 01:36:21,984 he has a duty to the millions of his Muslim subjects... 1067 01:36:22,236 --> 01:36:24,320 who are a minority in this realm. 1068 01:36:24,571 --> 01:36:27,949 And experience suggests that his troops... 1069 01:36:28,200 --> 01:36:31,786 and his administration are essential... 1070 01:36:32,037 --> 01:36:34,580 in order to secure the peace. 1071 01:36:35,416 --> 01:36:38,751 All nations contain religious minorities. 1072 01:36:38,961 --> 01:36:42,088 Like other countries, ours will have its problems. 1073 01:36:42,381 --> 01:36:44,048 But they will be ours... 1074 01:36:44,425 --> 01:36:45,591 not yours. 1075 01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:48,845 How do you propose to make them yours? 1076 01:36:49,888 --> 01:36:52,432 You don't think we're just going to walk out of India. 1077 01:36:53,142 --> 01:36:54,976 Yes. 1078 01:36:55,185 --> 01:36:57,979 In the end, you will walk out... 1079 01:36:58,147 --> 01:37:01,816 because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control... 1080 01:37:02,025 --> 01:37:04,735 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse... 1081 01:37:04,987 --> 01:37:06,612 to cooperate. 1082 01:37:06,822 --> 01:37:09,282 And that is what we intend to achieve. 1083 01:37:09,533 --> 01:37:13,828 Peaceful, nonviolent noncooperation... 1084 01:37:15,080 --> 01:37:17,748 till you yourself see the wisdom of leaving... 1085 01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:19,917 Your Excellency. 1086 01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:25,756 I said to him, "You don't expect us just to walk out." 1087 01:37:25,966 --> 01:37:27,842 And he said, "Yes." 1088 01:37:28,218 --> 01:37:30,803 What an extraordinary little man, isn't he? 1089 01:37:31,013 --> 01:37:33,264 "Nonviolence, noncooperation." 1090 01:37:33,432 --> 01:37:36,559 For a moment, I was afraid they were actually gonna do something. 1091 01:37:36,727 --> 01:37:41,272 Yes, but I think it would be wise to be very cautious for a time. 1092 01:37:41,690 --> 01:37:44,317 The Antiterrorist Act will remain on the statutes... 1093 01:37:44,526 --> 01:37:47,987 but on no account is Gandhi to be arrested. 1094 01:37:48,530 --> 01:37:50,698 Whatever mischief he causes... 1095 01:37:50,908 --> 01:37:53,951 I have no intention of making a martyr of him. 1096 01:37:57,998 --> 01:38:00,833 But now something worse is happening. 1097 01:38:01,043 --> 01:38:03,336 When Gandhiji and I were growing up... 1098 01:38:04,004 --> 01:38:06,839 women wove their own cloth. 1099 01:38:07,925 --> 01:38:10,801 But now there are millions who have no work... 1100 01:38:11,553 --> 01:38:16,474 because those who can buy all they need from England. 1101 01:38:17,726 --> 01:38:19,936 I say with Gandhiji: 1102 01:38:20,604 --> 01:38:23,689 There is no beauty in the finest cloth... 1103 01:38:23,941 --> 01:38:27,944 if it makes hunger and unhappiness. 1104 01:38:59,184 --> 01:39:01,269 My message to you... 1105 01:39:02,145 --> 01:39:05,690 is the message I have given to your brothers everywhere. 1106 01:39:06,567 --> 01:39:08,901 To gain independence... 1107 01:39:09,319 --> 01:39:11,279 we must prove worthy of it. 1108 01:39:12,656 --> 01:39:17,577 There must be Hindu-Muslim unity always. 1109 01:39:25,127 --> 01:39:28,671 No Indian must be treated as the English treat us. 1110 01:39:28,922 --> 01:39:31,299 We must remove untouchability... 1111 01:39:31,508 --> 01:39:34,385 from our hearts and from our lives. 1112 01:39:42,019 --> 01:39:44,687 We must defy the British. 1113 01:40:01,663 --> 01:40:05,916 Not with violence that will inflame their will... 1114 01:40:07,169 --> 01:40:10,588 but with a firmness that will open their eyes. 1115 01:40:11,214 --> 01:40:13,841 English factories make the cloth... 1116 01:40:14,343 --> 01:40:16,552 that makes our poverty. 1117 01:40:17,304 --> 01:40:20,306 All those who wish to make the English see... 1118 01:40:20,891 --> 01:40:22,975 bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today... 1119 01:40:22,976 --> 01:40:25,737 bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today... 1120 01:40:25,854 --> 01:40:28,648 and we will light a fire that will be seen in Delhi... 1121 01:40:29,941 --> 01:40:31,400 and in London. 1122 01:40:31,902 --> 01:40:33,110 And if... 1123 01:40:33,820 --> 01:40:35,279 like me... 1124 01:40:36,031 --> 01:40:39,200 you are left with only one piece of homespun... 1125 01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,330 wear it with dignity. 1126 01:41:27,541 --> 01:41:29,542 Thank you very much. 1127 01:41:30,210 --> 01:41:32,253 No, thank you, I can manage. 1128 01:41:33,964 --> 01:41:36,716 Don't destroy my good intentions. I already feel guilty... 1129 01:41:36,883 --> 01:41:40,177 - ... about traveling second class. - You've earned a few indulgences. 1130 01:41:40,345 --> 01:41:42,972 Perhaps, but Maulana's made of sterner stuff. 1131 01:41:43,223 --> 01:41:44,849 Our trains met in Bombay. 1132 01:41:45,058 --> 01:41:48,185 And there he is, back in that lot, the model disciple. 1133 01:41:48,437 --> 01:41:50,312 There's another passenger. 1134 01:41:50,605 --> 01:41:54,358 A Miss Slade from London. She's been writing to Gandhiji for years. 1135 01:41:54,651 --> 01:41:56,986 She's the daughter of an English admiral. 1136 01:41:57,487 --> 01:42:00,698 What do you think the daughter of an English admiral... 1137 01:42:00,907 --> 01:42:02,575 proposes to do in our ashram? 1138 01:42:02,784 --> 01:42:05,828 - Sink us? - From the looks of the luggage, yes. 1139 01:42:06,121 --> 01:42:09,665 She wants to make her home with us. And Gandhiji has agreed. 1140 01:42:09,916 --> 01:42:11,500 Miss Slade! 1141 01:42:12,210 --> 01:42:13,794 You'd be Mr. Kallenbach. 1142 01:42:14,629 --> 01:42:17,256 And you would be Miss Slade? 1143 01:42:17,632 --> 01:42:20,092 I prefer the name Gandhiji has given me: 1144 01:42:20,302 --> 01:42:21,594 Mirabehn. 1145 01:42:27,559 --> 01:42:31,520 Don't pull it so fast. You'll break it again. 1146 01:42:38,278 --> 01:42:41,530 Leave it. Leave it. 1147 01:42:41,823 --> 01:42:43,866 God gave you 10 thumbs. 1148 01:42:44,117 --> 01:42:45,284 Eleven. 1149 01:42:49,623 --> 01:42:51,332 Sardar! 1150 01:42:57,422 --> 01:42:58,130 Mirabehn! 1151 01:42:58,131 --> 01:42:59,131 Mirabehn! 1152 01:43:05,722 --> 01:43:07,389 Come, come. 1153 01:43:09,100 --> 01:43:11,352 You will be my daughter. 1154 01:43:13,313 --> 01:43:14,814 But then... 1155 01:43:15,065 --> 01:43:17,149 some rioting broke out... 1156 01:43:17,359 --> 01:43:20,194 between Hindus and Muslims. 1157 01:43:21,112 --> 01:43:23,656 Violent, terrible. 1158 01:43:25,158 --> 01:43:26,909 Whether it was provoked... 1159 01:43:27,410 --> 01:43:29,286 I don't know. 1160 01:43:30,121 --> 01:43:34,041 But it gave them an excuse to impose martial law throughout Bengal. 1161 01:43:35,794 --> 01:43:38,337 Some of the things the military have done... 1162 01:43:38,713 --> 01:43:40,756 Is the campaign weakening? 1163 01:43:41,049 --> 01:43:44,134 The marches and protests are bigger, if anything. 1164 01:43:44,344 --> 01:43:46,262 But with the censorship here... 1165 01:43:47,013 --> 01:43:50,766 they know more in England than we do. 1166 01:43:50,976 --> 01:43:54,311 It saps the courage to think you may be suffering alone. 1167 01:43:55,230 --> 01:43:56,814 They are not alone. 1168 01:43:57,315 --> 01:44:01,527 And martial law only shows how desperate the British are. 1169 01:44:05,824 --> 01:44:08,075 Is that homespun? 1170 01:44:09,578 --> 01:44:13,122 I sent for it from here. I dyed it myself. 1171 01:44:17,294 --> 01:44:19,962 What do the workers in England make of what we're doing? 1172 01:44:20,130 --> 01:44:21,714 It must have produced hardship. 1173 01:44:21,923 --> 01:44:23,299 It has... 1174 01:44:23,550 --> 01:44:26,260 but you'd be surprised. They do understand. 1175 01:44:26,469 --> 01:44:27,678 Good. 1176 01:44:30,807 --> 01:44:33,142 Ba will have to teach you to spin too. 1177 01:44:33,393 --> 01:44:35,394 - I'd rather march. - First, spin! 1178 01:44:36,938 --> 01:44:39,356 Let the others march for a time. 1179 01:44:40,275 --> 01:44:42,943 I'll teach you all our foolishness. 1180 01:44:43,194 --> 01:44:44,945 And you must teach me yours. 1181 01:44:53,413 --> 01:44:57,249 We burn British cloth! We burn British cloth! 1182 01:45:04,090 --> 01:45:08,052 Long live Gandhiji! Long live Gandhiji! 1183 01:45:21,733 --> 01:45:25,736 British rule must go! British rule must go! 1184 01:45:32,494 --> 01:45:34,620 I'll stuff it down your damn throat! 1185 01:45:36,373 --> 01:45:37,957 Help us! 1186 01:45:38,333 --> 01:45:40,501 Leave us alone! We're not harming you. 1187 01:45:41,086 --> 01:45:42,878 Go on your way. On your way! 1188 01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:45,547 Come back! 1189 01:45:47,300 --> 01:45:49,343 Help us! Help us! 1190 01:45:52,013 --> 01:45:53,889 Help! Help! 1191 01:47:25,231 --> 01:47:27,649 That's one bit of news they haven't censored. 1192 01:47:31,279 --> 01:47:33,530 Now it's all over the world. 1193 01:47:33,782 --> 01:47:36,700 India's "nonviolence." 1194 01:47:38,787 --> 01:47:40,370 What can we do? 1195 01:47:40,955 --> 01:47:42,664 We must end the campaign. 1196 01:47:46,002 --> 01:47:49,588 After what they did at the massacre? It's only an eye for an eye. 1197 01:47:49,839 --> 01:47:54,426 An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. 1198 01:47:54,928 --> 01:47:57,346 Do you know the sacrifices people have made? 1199 01:47:57,555 --> 01:47:59,932 We'd never get the same commitment again, ever. 1200 01:48:00,141 --> 01:48:03,102 The whole of India is on the move! 1201 01:48:03,311 --> 01:48:05,562 Yes, but in what direction? 1202 01:48:05,855 --> 01:48:09,733 If we obtain our freedom by murder and bloodshed, I want no part of it. 1203 01:48:11,444 --> 01:48:16,031 Bapu, you are the father of the nation. 1204 01:48:16,282 --> 01:48:19,409 Today, I see no ground in that for anything but shame. 1205 01:48:22,580 --> 01:48:25,124 This was one incident. 1206 01:48:25,375 --> 01:48:28,252 Tell that to the families of the policemen who died. 1207 01:48:32,382 --> 01:48:37,427 Bapu, the whole nation is marching. 1208 01:48:37,804 --> 01:48:40,931 They wouldn't stop, even if we asked them to. 1209 01:48:43,434 --> 01:48:45,227 I will ask. 1210 01:48:45,854 --> 01:48:50,315 And I will fast as a penance for my part in arousing such emotions. 1211 01:48:50,525 --> 01:48:53,152 And I will not stop until they stop. 1212 01:48:54,988 --> 01:48:56,071 But... 1213 01:48:56,489 --> 01:48:59,616 God! You can be sure the British won't censor that. 1214 01:48:59,826 --> 01:49:01,910 They'll put it on every street corner. 1215 01:49:03,121 --> 01:49:07,082 Gandhiji, people are aroused. 1216 01:49:07,292 --> 01:49:09,042 They won't stop! 1217 01:49:10,753 --> 01:49:13,714 If I die, perhaps they will stop. 1218 01:49:53,087 --> 01:49:55,964 I must get ready for morning prayers. 1219 01:49:56,216 --> 01:49:58,217 Mirabehn is here. 1220 01:50:44,806 --> 01:50:47,015 I've brought your drinking water. 1221 01:50:59,821 --> 01:51:03,031 There's a little lemon juice in it. That's all. 1222 01:51:15,837 --> 01:51:18,922 Herman has gone to meet Pandit Nehru. 1223 01:51:19,507 --> 01:51:21,300 There was a telegram. 1224 01:51:21,634 --> 01:51:24,594 Almost everywhere, it has stopped. 1225 01:51:25,013 --> 01:51:26,847 When it is everywhere... 1226 01:51:28,308 --> 01:51:30,976 then my prayers will be answered. 1227 01:51:34,939 --> 01:51:37,065 Do you find me stubborn? 1228 01:51:37,900 --> 01:51:39,151 I don't know. 1229 01:51:40,153 --> 01:51:42,279 I know that you are right. 1230 01:51:42,739 --> 01:51:45,198 I don't know that this is right. 1231 01:51:47,785 --> 01:51:49,578 May I turn you? 1232 01:52:03,176 --> 01:52:05,302 When I despair... 1233 01:52:05,803 --> 01:52:09,306 I remember that all through history... 1234 01:52:10,183 --> 01:52:14,394 the way of truth and love has always won. 1235 01:52:16,356 --> 01:52:19,274 There have been tyrants and murderers... 1236 01:52:19,484 --> 01:52:23,612 and, for a time, they can seem invincible. 1237 01:52:23,821 --> 01:52:26,990 But in the end, they always fall. 1238 01:52:28,659 --> 01:52:30,077 Think of it. 1239 01:52:31,662 --> 01:52:33,372 Always. 1240 01:52:35,291 --> 01:52:38,752 Whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way... 1241 01:52:38,961 --> 01:52:41,922 the way the world is meant to be... 1242 01:52:42,131 --> 01:52:43,673 think of that... 1243 01:52:45,093 --> 01:52:48,387 and then try to do it his way. 1244 01:52:51,557 --> 01:52:56,103 And now, could I have another feast of lemon juice? 1245 01:53:00,024 --> 01:53:01,525 Panditji! 1246 01:53:14,414 --> 01:53:15,956 Jinnah... 1247 01:53:16,207 --> 01:53:17,374 Patel... 1248 01:53:17,959 --> 01:53:22,087 all of congress has called for the end of noncooperation. 1249 01:53:22,338 --> 01:53:26,007 There's not been one demonstration. 1250 01:53:27,009 --> 01:53:31,763 All over India, people are praying that you will end the fast. 1251 01:53:32,223 --> 01:53:33,807 They're walking in the streets... 1252 01:53:34,016 --> 01:53:36,768 offering garlands to the police... 1253 01:53:38,855 --> 01:53:40,272 and British soldiers. 1254 01:53:43,192 --> 01:53:45,527 Perhaps I have overdone it. 1255 01:54:06,757 --> 01:54:09,384 - Good morning, Bapu. - Good morning. 1256 01:54:09,677 --> 01:54:12,929 Don't let him go. If he bumps me, I'm done for. 1257 01:54:13,139 --> 01:54:15,056 Don't worry, I won't let him go. 1258 01:54:43,878 --> 01:54:45,504 I'm sorry, Mr. Gandhi, sir... 1259 01:54:45,713 --> 01:54:47,255 but you're under arrest. 1260 01:54:47,590 --> 01:54:49,257 On what charge? 1261 01:54:49,509 --> 01:54:50,884 Sedition. 1262 01:54:51,385 --> 01:54:53,303 You can't be serious. 1263 01:54:53,679 --> 01:54:55,514 This man has just stopped a revolution. 1264 01:54:55,681 --> 01:54:56,848 That's as may be. 1265 01:54:57,058 --> 01:54:58,975 I only know what I am charged to perform. 1266 01:54:59,227 --> 01:55:00,644 I don't believe it! 1267 01:55:00,895 --> 01:55:03,271 Even the British can't be that stupid. 1268 01:55:04,190 --> 01:55:05,982 Help me, please. 1269 01:55:06,150 --> 01:55:09,027 Mira, you must look after Ba. 1270 01:55:13,616 --> 01:55:17,744 If there is one protest, one riot, a disgrace of any kind... 1271 01:55:17,954 --> 01:55:19,371 I will fast again. 1272 01:55:19,705 --> 01:55:20,914 Herman. 1273 01:55:21,374 --> 01:55:23,500 I have been on many trips. 1274 01:55:24,085 --> 01:55:25,710 Monda. 1275 01:55:26,003 --> 01:55:27,963 This is just another trip. 1276 01:55:28,839 --> 01:55:30,715 I am at your command. 1277 01:55:36,305 --> 01:55:39,516 I know we are not ready for my kind of independence. 1278 01:55:39,725 --> 01:55:42,894 If I'm sent to jail, perhaps that is the best protest... 1279 01:55:43,104 --> 01:55:45,355 our country can make at this time. 1280 01:55:46,357 --> 01:55:51,194 And if it helps India, I've never refused His Majesty's hospitality. 1281 01:55:59,370 --> 01:56:01,538 Call the prisoner to the bar. 1282 01:56:47,543 --> 01:56:50,462 "Noncooperation has one aim: 1283 01:56:50,671 --> 01:56:52,881 The overthrow of the government. 1284 01:56:53,174 --> 01:56:55,592 Sedition must become our creed. 1285 01:56:56,177 --> 01:56:58,094 We must give no quarter... 1286 01:56:58,346 --> 01:57:01,222 nor can we expect any." 1287 01:57:01,432 --> 01:57:03,683 - Do you deny writing it? - Not at all. 1288 01:57:04,644 --> 01:57:06,561 And I will save the court's time... 1289 01:57:06,771 --> 01:57:09,314 my lord, by stating under oath that, to this day... 1290 01:57:09,523 --> 01:57:11,900 I believe noncooperation with evil is a duty... 1291 01:57:12,068 --> 01:57:14,361 and that British rule of India is evil. 1292 01:57:15,404 --> 01:57:17,989 The prosecution rests, my lord. 1293 01:57:22,119 --> 01:57:25,914 I presume you are conducting your own defense, Mr. Gandhi. 1294 01:57:26,082 --> 01:57:28,750 I have no defense, my lord. I am guilty as charged. 1295 01:57:29,335 --> 01:57:31,670 And if you truly believe in your system of law... 1296 01:57:31,921 --> 01:57:36,633 you must inflict on me the severest penalty possible. 1297 01:57:47,812 --> 01:57:51,523 It is impossible for me to ignore that you're in a different category... 1298 01:57:51,732 --> 01:57:54,734 from any person I have ever tried... 1299 01:57:55,569 --> 01:57:57,654 or am likely to try. 1300 01:57:58,155 --> 01:58:00,657 Nevertheless, it is my duty to sentence you... 1301 01:58:00,866 --> 01:58:04,661 to six years' imprisonment. 1302 01:58:14,922 --> 01:58:18,925 If, however, His Majesty's government should, at some later date... 1303 01:58:19,677 --> 01:58:22,721 see fit to reduce the term... 1304 01:58:25,057 --> 01:58:27,976 no one will be better pleased than I. 1305 01:58:55,713 --> 01:58:58,006 Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what they hoped. 1306 01:58:58,299 --> 01:59:01,551 Put him in prison a few years. With luck, he'd be forgotten. 1307 01:59:02,219 --> 01:59:04,304 Maybe they could even subdue him. 1308 01:59:05,181 --> 01:59:07,056 Well, he certainly wasn't forgotten. 1309 01:59:07,224 --> 01:59:10,185 As soon as he got out, he was back tramping the countryside... 1310 01:59:10,352 --> 01:59:13,646 preaching nonviolence and demanding a free India. 1311 01:59:15,065 --> 01:59:18,026 Everyone knows another showdown's coming. 1312 01:59:19,779 --> 01:59:22,363 How does an American journalist in Central America... 1313 01:59:22,573 --> 01:59:25,325 learn that Gandhi was born in Porbandar anyway? 1314 01:59:25,701 --> 01:59:27,535 I've been aware of him for a long time. 1315 01:59:27,745 --> 01:59:29,746 He certainly makes good copy. 1316 01:59:30,080 --> 01:59:34,125 The other day, Winston Churchill called him a half-naked Indian fakir. 1317 01:59:34,126 --> 01:59:34,709 The other day, Winston Churchill called him a half-naked Indian fakir. 1318 01:59:36,420 --> 01:59:37,629 I met him once. 1319 01:59:37,880 --> 01:59:39,547 - What, you mean Gandhi? - Yeah. 1320 01:59:39,799 --> 01:59:42,091 South Africa, a long time ago. 1321 01:59:42,593 --> 01:59:44,511 I wonder if he'll recognize me. 1322 01:59:44,762 --> 01:59:45,804 What was he like? 1323 01:59:46,055 --> 01:59:48,264 He had a full head of hair then. 1324 01:59:48,432 --> 01:59:51,643 We were like college students, trying to figure everything out. 1325 01:59:51,811 --> 01:59:54,646 Well, he must have found some of the answers. 1326 02:00:01,153 --> 02:00:04,989 In every worthy wish of yours, I shall be your helpmate. 1327 02:00:05,241 --> 02:00:07,242 Helpmate. 1328 02:00:08,369 --> 02:00:13,039 Take the fourth step, that we may be ever full of joy. 1329 02:00:14,333 --> 02:00:16,793 I will ever live devoted to you... 1330 02:00:17,044 --> 02:00:21,631 speaking words of love and praying for your happiness. 1331 02:00:22,967 --> 02:00:24,175 Take the fifth step... 1332 02:00:24,176 --> 02:00:25,301 Take the fifth step... 1333 02:00:25,553 --> 02:00:27,303 the walking around a fire... 1334 02:00:29,932 --> 02:00:33,017 that we may serve the people. 1335 02:00:33,269 --> 02:00:35,937 I will follow close behind you... 1336 02:00:36,146 --> 02:00:38,731 and help to serve the people. 1337 02:00:40,442 --> 02:00:42,318 Take the sixth step... 1338 02:00:43,529 --> 02:00:47,073 that we may follow our vows in life. 1339 02:00:47,449 --> 02:00:51,870 I will follow you in all our vows and duties. 1340 02:00:52,997 --> 02:00:55,123 Take the seventh step... 1341 02:00:58,002 --> 02:01:01,087 that we may ever live as friends. 1342 02:01:03,215 --> 02:01:05,842 You are my best friend... 1343 02:01:06,969 --> 02:01:08,970 my highest guru... 1344 02:01:09,889 --> 02:01:12,307 and my sovereign lord. 1345 02:01:16,437 --> 02:01:19,230 And then I put a sweetened wheat cake in her mouth. 1346 02:01:19,231 --> 02:01:19,439 And then I put a sweetened wheat cake in her mouth. 1347 02:01:19,690 --> 02:01:22,233 And I put a sweetened wheat cake in his mouth. 1348 02:01:22,484 --> 02:01:25,028 And with that, we were pronounced... 1349 02:01:25,321 --> 02:01:26,905 man and wife. 1350 02:01:29,158 --> 02:01:31,701 We were both 13. 1351 02:01:44,048 --> 02:01:45,673 It's beautiful. 1352 02:01:47,217 --> 02:01:50,887 Even as a boy... I thought so. 1353 02:01:52,932 --> 02:01:54,432 Thank you. 1354 02:01:55,517 --> 02:01:58,811 Trying to keep up with you is like chasing a jackrabbit. 1355 02:02:00,689 --> 02:02:04,400 You've come because you think something is going to happen. 1356 02:02:05,986 --> 02:02:08,821 - Is it? - Perhaps. 1357 02:02:09,740 --> 02:02:11,699 I've come here to think about it. 1358 02:02:15,496 --> 02:02:17,580 Do you remember much of South Africa? 1359 02:02:17,790 --> 02:02:20,291 Oh, yes. A great deal. 1360 02:02:22,670 --> 02:02:24,545 I've traveled so far... 1361 02:02:25,172 --> 02:02:27,382 and thought so much. 1362 02:02:31,595 --> 02:02:35,723 As you can see, my city is a sea city. 1363 02:02:37,059 --> 02:02:41,145 Always full of Hindus... Muslims... 1364 02:02:41,355 --> 02:02:43,564 Sikhs, Jews, Persians. 1365 02:02:46,026 --> 02:02:49,070 My family's sect was the Pranami. 1366 02:02:49,488 --> 02:02:50,780 Hindu, of course. 1367 02:02:50,990 --> 02:02:54,242 But in our temple, the priest used to read... 1368 02:02:54,451 --> 02:02:56,703 from the Muslim Koran... 1369 02:02:56,912 --> 02:02:59,747 and the Hindu Gita, moving from one to the other... 1370 02:02:59,957 --> 02:03:02,500 as if it mattered not which book was read... 1371 02:03:02,710 --> 02:03:04,585 as long as God was worshiped. 1372 02:03:08,298 --> 02:03:09,549 When I was a boy... 1373 02:03:10,134 --> 02:03:12,260 I used to sing a song in the temple. 1374 02:03:15,764 --> 02:03:20,059 A true disciple Knows another's woes 1375 02:03:20,269 --> 02:03:22,478 As his own 1376 02:03:22,980 --> 02:03:26,607 He bows to all... and despises none. 1377 02:03:27,901 --> 02:03:30,820 Like all other boys... I sang the words... 1378 02:03:31,488 --> 02:03:35,575 not thinking what they meant or how they might influence me. 1379 02:03:39,163 --> 02:03:41,205 I've traveled so far. 1380 02:03:42,499 --> 02:03:44,959 And all I've done is come back... 1381 02:03:45,753 --> 02:03:47,045 home. 1382 02:03:57,264 --> 02:03:59,098 Wait a minute. 1383 02:03:59,641 --> 02:04:02,894 - You know what you're gonna do? - It would have been uncivil of me... 1384 02:04:03,103 --> 02:04:05,855 to let you make such a long trip for nothing. 1385 02:04:08,067 --> 02:04:09,984 - Where are you going? - Come. 1386 02:04:11,820 --> 02:04:14,072 - Where are we going? - Back to the ashram. 1387 02:04:14,323 --> 02:04:16,282 Then to prove to the new viceroy... 1388 02:04:16,533 --> 02:04:19,452 that the king's writ no longer runs in India. 1389 02:04:19,787 --> 02:04:20,828 Salt? 1390 02:04:21,038 --> 02:04:24,999 Yes, sir. He's going to march to the sea and make salt. 1391 02:04:27,086 --> 02:04:29,420 There's a royal monopoly on the manufacture of salt. 1392 02:04:29,421 --> 02:04:30,463 There's a royal monopoly on the manufacture of salt. 1393 02:04:30,672 --> 02:04:35,218 It's illegal to make it or sell it without a government license. 1394 02:04:35,677 --> 02:04:37,887 All right, he's breaking the law. 1395 02:04:38,138 --> 02:04:41,432 What will that deprive us of? Two rupees of salt tax? 1396 02:04:41,642 --> 02:04:46,354 It's not a serious attack on the revenue. Its primary importance is symbolic. 1397 02:04:46,563 --> 02:04:50,191 - Don't patronize me, Charles. - No, sir, I... 1398 02:04:53,028 --> 02:04:56,322 In this climate, nothing lives without water or salt. 1399 02:04:56,573 --> 02:05:00,660 Our absolute control of it is a control on the pulse of India. 1400 02:05:01,495 --> 02:05:05,248 And that's the basis of this declaration of independence? 1401 02:05:05,457 --> 02:05:06,707 The day he sets off... 1402 02:05:06,959 --> 02:05:10,962 everyone is supposed to raise the flag of "Free India." 1403 02:05:11,672 --> 02:05:16,384 And then he walks some 240 miles to the sea and makes salt. 1404 02:05:20,639 --> 02:05:22,682 I say ignore it. 1405 02:05:22,933 --> 02:05:25,393 Let them raise their damned flags. 1406 02:05:25,644 --> 02:05:26,686 Let him make his salt. 1407 02:05:27,813 --> 02:05:30,898 It's only symbolic if we choose to make it so. 1408 02:05:33,277 --> 02:05:34,944 He'll arrive at the sea... 1409 02:05:35,154 --> 02:05:38,281 on the anniversary of the Massacre of Amritsar. 1410 02:05:47,416 --> 02:05:49,917 General Edgar is right. Ignore it. 1411 02:05:50,335 --> 02:05:53,171 Mr. Gandhi will find it takes a great deal more... 1412 02:05:53,422 --> 02:05:57,216 than a pinch of salt to bring down the British Empire. 1413 02:06:51,480 --> 02:06:54,357 You've done me a great service. 1414 02:06:54,608 --> 02:06:55,816 Not at all, sir. 1415 02:06:56,068 --> 02:07:00,154 It would be uncivil for us to let you make such a long trip for nothing. 1416 02:07:15,045 --> 02:07:16,254 We'll go. 1417 02:07:16,505 --> 02:07:20,091 Long live Gandhiji! Long live Gandhiji! 1418 02:07:42,698 --> 02:07:44,573 Is it over if they arrest you now? 1419 02:07:44,741 --> 02:07:45,908 Not if they arrest me... 1420 02:07:46,159 --> 02:07:48,577 or 1000 or 10,000. 1421 02:07:48,829 --> 02:07:52,748 It's not only generals who know how to plan campaigns. 1422 02:07:53,208 --> 02:07:56,210 What if they don't arrest you? What if they don't react at all? 1423 02:07:56,378 --> 02:07:57,712 Something for your notebook: 1424 02:07:58,005 --> 02:08:01,382 The function of a civil resister is to provoke response. 1425 02:08:01,675 --> 02:08:03,384 And we will continue to provoke... 1426 02:08:03,593 --> 02:08:06,929 until they respond or they change the law. 1427 02:08:07,180 --> 02:08:10,308 They are not in control. We are. 1428 02:08:10,934 --> 02:08:13,978 That is the strength of civil resistance. 1429 02:08:18,650 --> 02:08:20,026 Vince! 1430 02:08:20,944 --> 02:08:24,572 - What did he say? - He said he's in control. 1431 02:08:46,553 --> 02:08:48,596 Do you intend to walk all the way? 1432 02:08:48,847 --> 02:08:51,140 It's the only way I can get the story. 1433 02:08:51,391 --> 02:08:53,809 Besides, my name is Walker. 1434 02:08:54,436 --> 02:08:56,729 "My name is Walker." 1435 02:09:50,909 --> 02:09:54,954 - My dear Mrs. Nehru! - Bapu. 1436 02:10:48,133 --> 02:10:50,134 Man needs salt... 1437 02:10:50,343 --> 02:10:53,012 as he needs air and water. 1438 02:10:53,555 --> 02:10:57,516 This salt comes from the Indian Ocean. 1439 02:10:57,767 --> 02:11:01,645 Let every Indian claim it as his right. 1440 02:11:03,190 --> 02:11:06,066 And so, once more, the man of nonviolence... 1441 02:11:06,318 --> 02:11:09,570 has challenged the might of the British Empire. 1442 02:11:24,878 --> 02:11:27,838 They're making it everywhere, sir. Mobs of them. 1443 02:11:28,089 --> 02:11:29,215 Publicly. 1444 02:11:29,466 --> 02:11:32,801 Congress leaders are selling it on the streets of Delhi. 1445 02:11:33,345 --> 02:11:36,388 We're being made fools of, sir, around the world. 1446 02:11:36,640 --> 02:11:38,807 Isn't there any instruction from London? 1447 02:11:39,059 --> 02:11:42,436 We're required to stop it. And stop it we will! 1448 02:11:42,687 --> 02:11:45,105 I don't care if we fill the jails. Stop it! 1449 02:11:46,149 --> 02:11:48,984 Arrest anyone, any rank, except Gandhi. 1450 02:11:50,070 --> 02:11:52,279 We'll cut the strength from under him. 1451 02:11:53,448 --> 02:11:56,784 And then we'll deal with the Mahatma. 1452 02:12:14,302 --> 02:12:16,887 Jump to it! Clear this beach! 1453 02:12:52,382 --> 02:12:55,092 Don't hit back! No violence! 1454 02:13:05,228 --> 02:13:09,523 There must be 100,000 under arrest. And it still goes on. 1455 02:13:09,774 --> 02:13:12,860 - Who's leading them? - I don't know. Nehru, Patel... 1456 02:13:13,069 --> 02:13:17,281 most congress officials are in jail. And their wives and children. 1457 02:13:17,532 --> 02:13:20,326 We've even arrested Nehru's mother. 1458 02:13:22,662 --> 02:13:24,622 Has there been any violence? 1459 02:13:24,873 --> 02:13:27,708 In Peshawar, the deputy police commissioner... 1460 02:13:27,917 --> 02:13:31,170 lost his head and opened fire with a machine gun. 1461 02:13:32,380 --> 02:13:35,382 But he's facing disciplinary court. 1462 02:13:35,592 --> 02:13:37,885 You can't expect things like that not to happen. 1463 02:13:38,053 --> 02:13:42,640 The question was intended to discover if there was any violence on their side. 1464 02:13:45,435 --> 02:13:46,602 No, sir. 1465 02:13:46,853 --> 02:13:48,896 I'm afraid not. 1466 02:13:49,189 --> 02:13:53,067 Perhaps if we arrested Gandhi, it might... 1467 02:13:56,363 --> 02:13:58,947 He's addressed this letter directly to you, has he? 1468 02:13:59,157 --> 02:14:00,324 Yes, sir, he has. 1469 02:14:00,575 --> 02:14:01,742 The usual thing: 1470 02:14:01,951 --> 02:14:04,161 "India's salt belongs to India." 1471 02:14:04,412 --> 02:14:05,496 Then he says flatly... 1472 02:14:05,664 --> 02:14:10,000 that he will lead a raid tomorrow on the Dharasana Salt Works. 1473 02:14:11,294 --> 02:14:13,128 Thank him for his letter... 1474 02:14:13,546 --> 02:14:15,381 and put him in jail. 1475 02:14:17,300 --> 02:14:18,926 Yes, sir. 1476 02:14:20,679 --> 02:14:22,304 Yes, sir. It'll be my pleasure. 1477 02:14:22,555 --> 02:14:24,807 - And Fields? - Sir? 1478 02:14:25,058 --> 02:14:27,476 Keep that salt works open. 1479 02:14:27,769 --> 02:14:29,561 Yes, sir. 1480 02:14:35,193 --> 02:14:36,235 I'm sorry, sir. 1481 02:14:36,403 --> 02:14:39,863 My orders are to allow regular staff only through these gates. 1482 02:14:40,073 --> 02:14:41,448 Very well. 1483 02:14:43,493 --> 02:14:44,827 In his name. 1484 02:14:45,036 --> 02:14:49,832 And for his sake, we will not raise a hand. 1485 02:14:50,083 --> 02:14:53,252 Long live Mahatma Gandhi! 1486 02:14:55,505 --> 02:14:57,506 Long live Gandhiji! 1487 02:15:01,344 --> 02:15:03,137 We are ready! 1488 02:15:10,270 --> 02:15:12,354 I want firmness and discipline. 1489 02:15:32,584 --> 02:15:35,461 - All right, take up your positions. - Yes, sir. 1490 02:15:42,385 --> 02:15:44,678 To your mark. Forward! 1491 02:15:55,356 --> 02:15:57,483 Last night at midnight... 1492 02:15:58,276 --> 02:15:59,902 they took Gandhiji from us. 1493 02:16:01,404 --> 02:16:03,739 They expect us to lose heart... 1494 02:16:03,948 --> 02:16:05,657 or to fight back. 1495 02:16:06,409 --> 02:16:08,577 We will do neither! 1496 02:16:39,984 --> 02:16:41,360 On your guard! 1497 02:16:58,211 --> 02:16:59,753 No, sir. The gate is closed! 1498 02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:20,208 "They walked... 1499 02:18:20,752 --> 02:18:22,794 both Hindu and Muslim alike... 1500 02:18:23,796 --> 02:18:25,756 with heads held high... 1501 02:18:26,215 --> 02:18:28,091 without any hope of escape... 1502 02:18:28,593 --> 02:18:30,385 from injury or death. 1503 02:18:30,678 --> 02:18:33,972 It went on and on into the night." 1504 02:18:34,182 --> 02:18:35,223 Stop. 1505 02:18:35,391 --> 02:18:39,645 "Women carried the wounded and broken bodies from the road... 1506 02:18:39,854 --> 02:18:42,356 until they dropped from exhaustion." 1507 02:18:42,565 --> 02:18:48,737 Stop. "But still, it went on and on." Stop. 1508 02:18:48,988 --> 02:18:53,700 "Whatever moral ascendancy the West held... 1509 02:18:53,910 --> 02:18:55,786 was lost here today. 1510 02:18:56,579 --> 02:18:58,664 India is free... 1511 02:18:58,873 --> 02:19:03,752 for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give... 1512 02:19:03,962 --> 02:19:09,549 and she has neither cringed nor retreated." Stop. 1513 02:20:18,536 --> 02:20:23,123 I am aware that I must have given you much cause for irritation... 1514 02:20:23,332 --> 02:20:24,624 Your Excellency. 1515 02:20:24,876 --> 02:20:27,878 I hope it will not stand between us as men. 1516 02:20:32,425 --> 02:20:33,633 Mr. Gandhi... 1517 02:20:34,385 --> 02:20:37,721 I am instructed to request your attendance... 1518 02:20:37,930 --> 02:20:40,182 at an all-government conference in London... 1519 02:20:41,142 --> 02:20:46,021 to discuss the possible independence... 1520 02:20:46,230 --> 02:20:47,689 of India. 1521 02:20:58,576 --> 02:21:00,952 Only recently released from prison... 1522 02:21:01,162 --> 02:21:05,123 Mahatma Gandhi leaves Bombay on the SS Rajputana... 1523 02:21:05,333 --> 02:21:08,168 to attend the conference on Indian independence... 1524 02:21:08,419 --> 02:21:12,672 called by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. 1525 02:21:13,800 --> 02:21:16,843 Mr. Gandhi, the sole Indian Congress Party delegate... 1526 02:21:17,053 --> 02:21:19,596 is staying at Kingsley Hall in London's East End... 1527 02:21:19,764 --> 02:21:21,431 for the duration of the talks. 1528 02:21:21,891 --> 02:21:24,101 He's seen here amongst local cockneys... 1529 02:21:24,310 --> 02:21:26,269 who have taken him to their hearts. 1530 02:21:26,521 --> 02:21:28,188 Besides attending the conference... 1531 02:21:28,397 --> 02:21:31,399 he has found time to meet political and religious leaders... 1532 02:21:31,567 --> 02:21:33,527 like Mr. Lloyd George... 1533 02:21:33,778 --> 02:21:36,988 the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Bernard Shaw... 1534 02:21:37,198 --> 02:21:39,074 and Charlie Chaplin. 1535 02:21:41,536 --> 02:21:43,912 He journeyed last week from Kingsley Hall... 1536 02:21:44,122 --> 02:21:48,375 to accept an invitation to tea from King George and Queen Mary... 1537 02:21:48,584 --> 02:21:52,045 at Buckingham Palace before attending the conference. 1538 02:21:52,296 --> 02:21:55,841 And I would emphasize that I think our first duty... 1539 02:21:56,050 --> 02:22:00,262 is to recognize that there is not one India... 1540 02:22:01,055 --> 02:22:02,472 but several. 1541 02:22:03,224 --> 02:22:05,142 A Hindu India... 1542 02:22:05,393 --> 02:22:07,602 a Muslim India... 1543 02:22:07,812 --> 02:22:10,397 and an India of princely states. 1544 02:22:10,648 --> 02:22:13,483 And all these must be respected... 1545 02:22:13,693 --> 02:22:15,277 and cared for. 1546 02:22:15,528 --> 02:22:16,903 Not just one. 1547 02:22:42,096 --> 02:22:43,930 Mr. Gandhi, who has been attending... 1548 02:22:44,182 --> 02:22:45,515 the London Round Table Conference on Indian Independence... 1549 02:22:45,516 --> 02:22:47,267 the London Round Table Conference on Indian Independence... 1550 02:22:47,476 --> 02:22:50,103 journeyed north to visit a cotton mill. 1551 02:22:50,646 --> 02:22:53,106 Although not dressed for the Lancashire climate... 1552 02:22:53,316 --> 02:22:56,193 Mr. Gandhi received a warm welcome from mill workers... 1553 02:22:57,111 --> 02:22:58,653 before heading back south... 1554 02:22:58,905 --> 02:23:01,489 for a final meeting with Mr. MacDonald. 1555 02:23:01,949 --> 02:23:06,786 The prime minister said the talks were both constructive and frank. 1556 02:23:09,874 --> 02:23:12,250 So farewell, Mr. Gandhi. 1557 02:23:12,752 --> 02:23:15,086 And bon voyage! 1558 02:23:17,131 --> 02:23:19,591 So the truth is, after all your travels... 1559 02:23:19,800 --> 02:23:21,468 after all your efforts... 1560 02:23:21,719 --> 02:23:25,597 they've stopped the campaign and sent you back empty-handed. 1561 02:23:26,015 --> 02:23:29,309 They're only clinging to old dreams... 1562 02:23:29,560 --> 02:23:32,395 and trying to split us in the old way. 1563 02:23:33,105 --> 02:23:34,898 But the will has gone. 1564 02:23:35,149 --> 02:23:38,193 Independence will fall like a ripe apple. 1565 02:23:38,402 --> 02:23:40,987 The only question is, when and how. 1566 02:23:41,364 --> 02:23:43,156 Well, I say, when is now! 1567 02:23:45,409 --> 02:23:47,786 And we will determine how. 1568 02:23:48,037 --> 02:23:49,704 Precisely. 1569 02:23:50,122 --> 02:23:52,123 Bapu, she is limping again. 1570 02:23:52,625 --> 02:23:54,042 It's only a sprain. 1571 02:23:54,502 --> 02:23:57,879 Take her to the river. We'll make a mud pack for her. 1572 02:23:59,173 --> 02:24:01,841 Go. I won't be a moment. 1573 02:24:05,429 --> 02:24:07,430 They are preparing for war. 1574 02:24:08,266 --> 02:24:09,557 I will not support it. 1575 02:24:09,767 --> 02:24:13,603 But I do not intend to take advantage of their danger. 1576 02:24:13,854 --> 02:24:16,231 That's when you take advantage. 1577 02:24:16,565 --> 02:24:19,401 That is just another way of hitting back. 1578 02:24:20,528 --> 02:24:22,821 We've come a long way together with the British. 1579 02:24:22,989 --> 02:24:25,991 When they leave, we want to see them off as friends. 1580 02:24:26,242 --> 02:24:31,204 Now, if you'll excuse me, there is something I must attend to. 1581 02:24:37,461 --> 02:24:38,628 Mud packs. 1582 02:24:51,017 --> 02:24:52,934 Mr. Gandhi, sir. 1583 02:24:53,144 --> 02:24:56,813 I've been instructed to inquire as to the subject of your speech tonight. 1584 02:24:57,023 --> 02:25:00,191 The value of goat's milk in daily diet. 1585 02:25:02,236 --> 02:25:05,864 But you can be sure that I will also speak against war. 1586 02:25:06,532 --> 02:25:08,116 Sorry, that can't be permitted. 1587 02:25:08,326 --> 02:25:09,367 Corporal! 1588 02:25:14,332 --> 02:25:15,665 It's all right, Mrs. Gandhi. 1589 02:25:15,833 --> 02:25:19,294 I have orders to return with you and your companion to the ashram. 1590 02:25:20,046 --> 02:25:23,715 If you take my husband, I intend to speak in his place. 1591 02:25:49,283 --> 02:25:51,076 Hold it a second, will you? 1592 02:25:52,661 --> 02:25:55,789 It was the Aga Khan's palace before they turned it into a prison. 1593 02:25:55,956 --> 02:25:58,917 They're holding Gandhi and congress politicians there. 1594 02:25:59,794 --> 02:26:03,296 Pandit Nehru and the others are up at Ahmednagar Fort. 1595 02:26:05,091 --> 02:26:06,758 Not bad for a prison, eh? 1596 02:26:06,967 --> 02:26:09,469 I guess no place is good if you're locked in. 1597 02:26:09,678 --> 02:26:11,721 Your timing's pretty lucky. 1598 02:26:11,972 --> 02:26:13,932 They had him cut off from the press. 1599 02:26:14,141 --> 02:26:15,725 But his personal secretary died, so they let up on restrictions. 1600 02:26:15,726 --> 02:26:18,246 But his personal secretary died, so they let up on restrictions. 1601 02:26:23,067 --> 02:26:25,985 Yes, I have heard of LIFE magazine. 1602 02:26:26,237 --> 02:26:30,198 I've even heard of Margaret Bourke-White. 1603 02:26:30,449 --> 02:26:34,369 But I don't know why either should be interested in an old man... 1604 02:26:34,578 --> 02:26:37,038 sitting alone in prison... 1605 02:26:37,289 --> 02:26:40,750 while the rest of the world is blowing itself to pieces. 1606 02:26:41,585 --> 02:26:45,296 Well, you're the only man I know who makes his own clothes. 1607 02:26:47,550 --> 02:26:51,428 But for me, that's not much of an accomplishment. 1608 02:26:57,351 --> 02:27:01,271 No, prison is rather agreeable to me. 1609 02:27:01,605 --> 02:27:05,233 And there is no doubt that after the war... 1610 02:27:05,484 --> 02:27:07,652 independence will come. 1611 02:27:07,987 --> 02:27:09,112 My only worry... 1612 02:27:09,321 --> 02:27:11,781 is what shape it will take. 1613 02:27:12,032 --> 02:27:13,783 - Jinnah has... - Stop! 1614 02:27:14,326 --> 02:27:17,662 I'm sorry, but... Could you come forward, please? 1615 02:27:18,330 --> 02:27:20,540 - Come, come. - Just up to the railing. 1616 02:27:20,791 --> 02:27:22,375 Thank you very much. 1617 02:27:23,544 --> 02:27:24,586 Thank you. 1618 02:27:24,795 --> 02:27:26,171 Now, sorry. 1619 02:27:26,380 --> 02:27:28,590 Go on. "What shape it will take..." 1620 02:27:28,799 --> 02:27:30,300 Jinnah has what? 1621 02:27:31,969 --> 02:27:35,597 Jinnah has cooperated with the British. 1622 02:27:35,806 --> 02:27:40,018 It has given him power and the freedom to speak. 1623 02:27:40,269 --> 02:27:42,812 And he's filled the Muslims with fears... 1624 02:27:43,063 --> 02:27:45,231 of what will happen to them... 1625 02:27:45,441 --> 02:27:48,401 in a country that is predominantly Hindu. 1626 02:27:49,111 --> 02:27:52,030 And that I find hard to bear... 1627 02:27:52,281 --> 02:27:53,948 even in prison. 1628 02:27:54,158 --> 02:27:55,867 Mr. Gandhi? 1629 02:28:01,916 --> 02:28:06,503 It's hard for me to see this as a solution to the 20th century's problems. 1630 02:28:07,254 --> 02:28:09,839 I have friends who keep telling me... 1631 02:28:10,049 --> 02:28:14,010 how much it costs them to keep me in poverty. 1632 02:28:15,763 --> 02:28:20,433 But I know happiness does not come with things... 1633 02:28:20,684 --> 02:28:22,310 even 20th-century things. 1634 02:28:22,561 --> 02:28:27,232 It can come from work and pride in what you do. 1635 02:28:28,234 --> 02:28:31,152 India lives in her villages... 1636 02:28:31,403 --> 02:28:34,280 and the terrible poverty there can only be removed... 1637 02:28:34,490 --> 02:28:37,867 if their local skills can be revived. 1638 02:28:38,285 --> 02:28:41,287 Poverty is the worst form of violence. 1639 02:28:42,039 --> 02:28:44,457 And a constructive program is the only... 1640 02:28:44,667 --> 02:28:47,961 nonviolent solution to India's agony. 1641 02:28:48,671 --> 02:28:51,339 It will not necessarily be progress for India... 1642 02:28:51,549 --> 02:28:55,843 if she simply imports the unhappiness of the West. 1643 02:28:58,472 --> 02:29:02,016 Do you really believe you could use nonviolence against Hitler? 1644 02:29:04,019 --> 02:29:07,272 Not without defeats and great pain. 1645 02:29:08,482 --> 02:29:11,150 But are there no defeats in this war? 1646 02:29:11,860 --> 02:29:13,778 No pain? 1647 02:29:14,572 --> 02:29:16,072 What you cannot do... 1648 02:29:16,323 --> 02:29:18,992 is accept injustice from Hitler or anyone. 1649 02:29:19,201 --> 02:29:22,328 You must make the injustice visible. 1650 02:29:22,538 --> 02:29:26,165 Be prepared to die like a soldier to do so. 1651 02:29:29,587 --> 02:29:32,380 Is this what I'm meant to end up with here? 1652 02:29:32,548 --> 02:29:33,673 No. 1653 02:29:33,882 --> 02:29:35,967 That's what you get for distracting me. 1654 02:29:36,176 --> 02:29:38,261 What do you expect when you talk like that? 1655 02:29:38,470 --> 02:29:43,057 I expect you to show as much patience as I am now. 1656 02:29:43,976 --> 02:29:47,270 Turn slowly and pull it gently. 1657 02:29:52,735 --> 02:29:55,528 And that includes the life of women. 1658 02:29:56,196 --> 02:29:58,990 Bapu has always said... 1659 02:29:59,199 --> 02:30:02,035 there were two kinds of slavery in India: 1660 02:30:02,453 --> 02:30:06,205 One for women, one for the untouchables. 1661 02:30:06,749 --> 02:30:10,043 And he has always fought against both. 1662 02:30:12,755 --> 02:30:16,007 Does it rankle, being separated in this way? 1663 02:30:19,637 --> 02:30:21,888 In Hindu philosophy... 1664 02:30:22,723 --> 02:30:24,182 the way to God... 1665 02:30:24,391 --> 02:30:27,143 is to free yourself of possessions... 1666 02:30:28,103 --> 02:30:29,520 and of passions. 1667 02:30:30,439 --> 02:30:34,817 Bapu has always struggled to find the way to God. 1668 02:30:38,572 --> 02:30:42,742 Do you mean that he gave up married life? 1669 02:30:45,371 --> 02:30:45,995 Four times he tried... 1670 02:30:45,996 --> 02:30:48,081 Four times he tried... 1671 02:30:48,832 --> 02:30:50,291 and failed. 1672 02:30:52,044 --> 02:30:54,045 But then he took a solemn vow. 1673 02:30:56,882 --> 02:30:58,091 And he's never broken it? 1674 02:31:01,637 --> 02:31:02,804 Not yet. 1675 02:31:20,739 --> 02:31:24,075 - I've got permission to move her. - I'm very sorry, sir. 1676 02:31:24,284 --> 02:31:27,120 She's had a massive thrombosis. It's a serious heart attack. 1677 02:31:27,371 --> 02:31:28,955 She'll never survive the trip. 1678 02:31:29,164 --> 02:31:32,125 It's better if we just keep her here and hope. 1679 02:32:19,673 --> 02:32:22,508 It's time for my walk. 1680 02:32:24,928 --> 02:32:26,095 I won't be long. 1681 02:32:26,096 --> 02:32:26,736 I won't be long. 1682 02:34:44,484 --> 02:34:47,820 Guard... present arms! 1683 02:35:03,670 --> 02:35:07,673 We have come to crown victory with friendship. 1684 02:35:09,801 --> 02:35:12,720 To assist at the birth of an independent India... 1685 02:35:12,888 --> 02:35:14,847 and to welcome her as an equal member... 1686 02:35:15,015 --> 02:35:16,265 in the British Commonwealth of Nations. 1687 02:35:16,266 --> 02:35:17,906 In the British Commonwealth of Nations. 1688 02:35:18,685 --> 02:35:21,687 I am here to see that I am the last British viceroy... 1689 02:35:21,897 --> 02:35:25,733 ever to have the honor of such a reception. 1690 02:35:38,205 --> 02:35:40,957 I am not concerned about the independence of India. 1691 02:35:41,208 --> 02:35:43,417 I'm concerned about the slavery of Muslims. 1692 02:35:43,669 --> 02:35:45,753 Please, Mr. Jinnah. 1693 02:35:46,004 --> 02:35:48,589 I won't watch the mastery of the British... 1694 02:35:48,799 --> 02:35:51,092 replaced by the mastery of the Hindus. 1695 02:35:57,599 --> 02:36:01,644 Muslim and Hindu are the right and left eye of India. 1696 02:36:02,229 --> 02:36:05,022 No one will be master, no one slave. 1697 02:36:05,273 --> 02:36:07,566 The world is not made of Mahatma Gandhis. 1698 02:36:07,818 --> 02:36:09,485 I'm talking about the real world. 1699 02:36:09,736 --> 02:36:11,320 - How the... - The real India has... 1700 02:36:11,571 --> 02:36:15,449 Muslims and Hindus in every village and every city. 1701 02:36:16,868 --> 02:36:18,202 How will you separate them? 1702 02:36:18,745 --> 02:36:21,789 Where there is a Muslim majority... 1703 02:36:22,124 --> 02:36:23,916 that will be Pakistan. 1704 02:36:24,167 --> 02:36:26,752 The rest is your India. 1705 02:36:26,962 --> 02:36:28,045 My dear Jinnah... 1706 02:36:28,588 --> 02:36:31,340 the Muslims are in a majority on two different sides of the country. 1707 02:36:31,341 --> 02:36:32,508 The Muslims are in a majority on two different sides of the country. 1708 02:36:32,759 --> 02:36:36,804 Let us worry about Pakistan. You worry about India. 1709 02:36:37,055 --> 02:36:38,139 Gentlemen... 1710 02:36:38,390 --> 02:36:40,516 I think perhaps we should recommence. 1711 02:36:54,781 --> 02:36:58,576 Death to Jinnah! Death to Jinnah! 1712 02:37:26,063 --> 02:37:28,064 Thank God, they've stopped. 1713 02:37:31,526 --> 02:37:33,319 Manu. Abha. 1714 02:37:41,119 --> 02:37:41,410 I'm your granduncle... 1715 02:37:41,411 --> 02:37:42,661 I'm your granduncle... 1716 02:37:42,913 --> 02:37:46,248 but I can still walk either of you into the ground. 1717 02:37:46,458 --> 02:37:48,959 I don't need to be pampered in this way. 1718 02:37:49,169 --> 02:37:51,420 Finish your quota of spinning. 1719 02:38:32,796 --> 02:38:35,798 Bapu. Bapu. 1720 02:38:35,966 --> 02:38:37,716 Bapu, please don't do it. 1721 02:38:37,926 --> 02:38:40,636 What do you want me not to do? 1722 02:38:40,929 --> 02:38:42,972 Not to meet with Mr. Jinnah? 1723 02:38:44,766 --> 02:38:46,767 I am a Muslim... 1724 02:38:47,102 --> 02:38:48,185 and a Hindu... 1725 02:38:48,645 --> 02:38:50,729 and a Christian and a Jew. 1726 02:38:51,565 --> 02:38:54,024 And so are all of you. 1727 02:38:56,194 --> 02:38:58,988 When you wave those flags and shout... 1728 02:38:59,322 --> 02:39:02,491 you send fear into the hearts of your brothers. 1729 02:39:02,701 --> 02:39:04,702 That is not the India I want. 1730 02:39:04,953 --> 02:39:06,036 Stop it! 1731 02:39:06,288 --> 02:39:09,248 For God's sake, stop it. 1732 02:39:26,808 --> 02:39:28,559 If you've finished your prayers... 1733 02:39:28,768 --> 02:39:31,562 perhaps we could begin our business. 1734 02:39:35,817 --> 02:39:38,777 My dear Jinnah... 1735 02:39:39,029 --> 02:39:41,530 you and I are brothers... 1736 02:39:41,531 --> 02:39:41,906 you and I are brothers... 1737 02:39:42,115 --> 02:39:46,327 born of the same mother India. If you have fears... 1738 02:39:46,536 --> 02:39:49,622 I want to put them at rest. 1739 02:39:49,873 --> 02:39:52,833 Begging the understanding of my friends... 1740 02:39:53,376 --> 02:39:56,962 I am asking Panditji to stand down. 1741 02:39:57,422 --> 02:40:01,425 I want you to be the first prime minister of India... 1742 02:40:01,635 --> 02:40:04,595 to name your entire cabinet... 1743 02:40:04,804 --> 02:40:08,641 to make the head of every government department a Muslim. 1744 02:40:24,115 --> 02:40:25,824 Bapu. 1745 02:40:27,285 --> 02:40:29,453 For me and the rest... 1746 02:40:29,704 --> 02:40:31,830 if that is what you want... 1747 02:40:32,040 --> 02:40:34,333 we will accept it. 1748 02:40:35,502 --> 02:40:37,753 But out there... 1749 02:40:38,505 --> 02:40:40,130 already there is rioting... 1750 02:40:40,340 --> 02:40:44,468 because Hindus fear you are going to give too much away. 1751 02:40:45,262 --> 02:40:47,346 If you did this... 1752 02:40:47,973 --> 02:40:50,432 no one would control it. 1753 02:40:51,017 --> 02:40:52,476 No one. 1754 02:41:08,201 --> 02:41:09,868 It is your choice. 1755 02:41:11,246 --> 02:41:15,416 Do you want an independent India and an independent Pakistan... 1756 02:41:15,792 --> 02:41:18,294 or do you want civil war? 1757 02:41:55,123 --> 02:41:58,125 Jinnah! Jinnah! Jinnah! 1758 02:44:31,404 --> 02:44:34,907 What you did in Noakhali, Bapu, was a miracle. 1759 02:44:35,325 --> 02:44:36,867 Miracle. 1760 02:44:37,368 --> 02:44:39,661 But millions are on the move... 1761 02:44:39,871 --> 02:44:41,997 and no one can count the dead. 1762 02:44:44,250 --> 02:44:48,128 In Calcutta, it's like civil war. 1763 02:44:49,881 --> 02:44:53,509 The Muslims rose and there was a bloodbath. 1764 02:44:54,594 --> 02:44:56,970 Now the Hindus are taking revenge. 1765 02:44:58,389 --> 02:44:59,890 If we can't stop it... 1766 02:45:00,099 --> 02:45:03,185 there'll be no hope for the Hindus left in Pakistan. 1767 02:45:04,437 --> 02:45:07,481 An eye for an eye, making the whole world blind. 1768 02:45:09,817 --> 02:45:11,401 Aren't there any troops to spare? 1769 02:45:13,071 --> 02:45:14,112 Nothing. 1770 02:45:17,951 --> 02:45:19,243 Nothing. 1771 02:45:23,623 --> 02:45:26,667 The divisions in Bombay and Delhi can hardly keep the peace now. 1772 02:45:26,834 --> 02:45:31,171 And each fresh bit of news creates another wave of madness. 1773 02:45:31,381 --> 02:45:33,715 We could cut all news off. 1774 02:45:34,300 --> 02:45:35,968 Bapu, please, where are you going? 1775 02:45:36,469 --> 02:45:37,970 I don't want to hear more. 1776 02:45:39,430 --> 02:45:41,181 We need your help. 1777 02:45:41,724 --> 02:45:44,142 There is nothing I can give. 1778 02:45:47,188 --> 02:45:48,438 Where are you going? 1779 02:45:51,818 --> 02:45:53,151 Calcutta. 1780 02:46:36,446 --> 02:46:40,532 If I had shunned death or feared it, I would not be here now... 1781 02:46:40,742 --> 02:46:42,784 nor would you be concerned for me. 1782 02:46:42,994 --> 02:46:44,953 But, sir, please. 1783 02:46:45,204 --> 02:46:47,623 I don't have the men to protect you... 1784 02:46:47,832 --> 02:46:50,584 not in a Muslim house, not this quarter. 1785 02:46:50,793 --> 02:46:53,920 I'm staying with the friend of a friend and... 1786 02:46:54,130 --> 02:46:58,091 Death to Muslims! Death to Muslims! 1787 02:46:59,594 --> 02:47:01,762 Why are you staying at the home of a Muslim? 1788 02:47:02,013 --> 02:47:03,180 They are murderers! 1789 02:47:03,431 --> 02:47:04,640 They killed my family! 1790 02:47:04,891 --> 02:47:06,850 Get out of Calcutta, Gandhi! 1791 02:47:07,060 --> 02:47:09,853 Death to Muslims! Death to Muslims! 1792 02:47:58,653 --> 02:47:59,820 Prime Minister. 1793 02:48:04,826 --> 02:48:07,703 Why must I read news like this in the paper? 1794 02:48:12,792 --> 02:48:15,377 Inform Sardar Patel. Arrange a plane. 1795 02:48:15,920 --> 02:48:17,087 We will go Friday. 1796 02:48:18,005 --> 02:48:19,089 Four days, sir? 1797 02:48:48,995 --> 02:48:50,662 Bapu. 1798 02:48:52,915 --> 02:48:55,459 Sardar, you have gained weight. 1799 02:48:55,710 --> 02:48:57,919 You must join me in the fast. 1800 02:48:58,129 --> 02:49:00,547 If I fast, I die. 1801 02:49:01,174 --> 02:49:05,343 If you fast, people go to all sorts of trouble... 1802 02:49:05,553 --> 02:49:06,762 to keep you alive. 1803 02:49:08,139 --> 02:49:09,765 Bapu, forgive me, I've cheated. 1804 02:49:10,349 --> 02:49:12,476 I could have come earlier... 1805 02:49:12,685 --> 02:49:15,145 but your fast has helped. 1806 02:49:15,730 --> 02:49:19,441 These last days, people's minds have begun to turn to this bed... 1807 02:49:19,692 --> 02:49:21,693 and away from the atrocities. 1808 02:49:21,903 --> 02:49:24,905 But now... it is enough. 1809 02:49:27,575 --> 02:49:31,870 All that has happened is that I've grown a little thinner. 1810 02:49:35,541 --> 02:49:39,169 Tomorrow, 5000 Muslim students... 1811 02:49:39,378 --> 02:49:40,587 of all ages... 1812 02:49:40,838 --> 02:49:44,549 are marching here, in Calcutta, for peace. 1813 02:49:45,259 --> 02:49:48,887 And 5000 Hindu students are marching with them. 1814 02:49:49,972 --> 02:49:51,765 I'm glad. 1815 02:49:52,600 --> 02:49:55,519 But it will not be enough. 1816 02:50:08,825 --> 02:50:14,621 Bapu, you are not so young anymore. 1817 02:50:15,081 --> 02:50:16,623 Don't worry for me. 1818 02:50:18,000 --> 02:50:22,629 I cannot watch the destruction of all that I've lived for. 1819 02:51:31,908 --> 02:51:33,450 Death to Gandhi! 1820 02:51:33,743 --> 02:51:36,036 Who dares say such things? 1821 02:51:36,412 --> 02:51:37,704 Who? 1822 02:51:38,998 --> 02:51:41,750 You kill me first! 1823 02:51:42,793 --> 02:51:43,960 Come! 1824 02:51:46,839 --> 02:51:48,256 Where are you? 1825 02:51:49,175 --> 02:51:50,926 Kill me first! 1826 02:51:53,846 --> 02:51:55,180 Where are you? 1827 02:52:05,650 --> 02:52:09,277 His pulse is very irregular. The kidneys aren't functioning. 1828 02:52:22,208 --> 02:52:24,417 Bapu? 1829 02:52:24,794 --> 02:52:27,545 I have brought Mr. Suhrawardy. 1830 02:52:27,838 --> 02:52:31,716 It was he who called on the Muslims to rise. 1831 02:52:32,009 --> 02:52:33,510 He is now telling them... 1832 02:52:34,053 --> 02:52:36,554 to go back to their homes... 1833 02:52:36,806 --> 02:52:38,723 to lay down their arms. 1834 02:52:51,195 --> 02:52:53,363 Think what you can do by living... 1835 02:52:53,698 --> 02:52:56,825 that you cannot do by dying. 1836 02:53:06,419 --> 02:53:08,795 What do you want? 1837 02:53:12,216 --> 02:53:15,010 That the fighting will stop. 1838 02:53:15,219 --> 02:53:17,762 That you make me believe... 1839 02:53:20,683 --> 02:53:23,518 that it will never start again. 1840 02:53:32,862 --> 02:53:34,029 Sometimes... 1841 02:53:34,238 --> 02:53:37,991 it is when you are quite without hope... 1842 02:53:38,701 --> 02:53:41,786 and in utter darkness... 1843 02:53:42,496 --> 02:53:45,707 that God comes to the rescue. 1844 02:53:47,585 --> 02:53:49,002 Gandhiji... 1845 02:53:49,462 --> 02:53:51,046 is dying... 1846 02:53:52,923 --> 02:53:55,592 because of our madness. 1847 02:53:57,511 --> 02:54:00,096 Put away your revenge. 1848 02:54:00,431 --> 02:54:04,976 What good will come of more killing? 1849 02:54:05,227 --> 02:54:07,562 Have the courage to do... 1850 02:54:07,772 --> 02:54:11,191 what you know is right. 1851 02:54:11,692 --> 02:54:13,610 For God's sake... 1852 02:54:14,236 --> 02:54:18,239 let us embrace like brothers. 1853 02:54:32,129 --> 02:54:33,922 It's our promise. 1854 02:54:34,673 --> 02:54:35,924 We stop. 1855 02:54:38,594 --> 02:54:40,553 Hindu swords. 1856 02:54:41,889 --> 02:54:43,515 It's a promise. 1857 02:54:46,685 --> 02:54:48,103 Go. 1858 02:54:49,855 --> 02:54:51,272 God be with you. 1859 02:55:04,245 --> 02:55:05,703 Here, eat! 1860 02:55:07,206 --> 02:55:08,665 Eat! 1861 02:55:09,875 --> 02:55:11,417 I'm going to hell... 1862 02:55:11,836 --> 02:55:14,504 but not with your death on my soul. 1863 02:55:15,089 --> 02:55:18,424 Only God decides who goes to hell. 1864 02:55:18,801 --> 02:55:20,677 I killed a child. 1865 02:55:22,304 --> 02:55:25,098 I smashed his head against a wall. 1866 02:55:26,851 --> 02:55:28,143 Why? 1867 02:55:30,312 --> 02:55:32,105 They killed my son. 1868 02:55:35,192 --> 02:55:36,568 My boy. 1869 02:55:38,863 --> 02:55:41,114 The Muslims killed my son! 1870 02:55:46,036 --> 02:55:49,747 I know a way out of hell. 1871 02:55:51,083 --> 02:55:53,501 Find a child. 1872 02:55:53,794 --> 02:55:58,798 A child whose mother and father have been killed. 1873 02:55:59,175 --> 02:56:03,595 A little boy about this high... 1874 02:56:05,264 --> 02:56:07,932 and raise him as your own. 1875 02:56:11,562 --> 02:56:14,898 Only be sure that he is a Muslim... 1876 02:56:16,692 --> 02:56:19,861 and that you raise him as one. 1877 02:56:47,598 --> 02:56:49,057 Go. 1878 02:56:49,850 --> 02:56:51,267 Go. 1879 02:56:52,770 --> 02:56:54,312 God bless you. 1880 02:57:21,048 --> 02:57:22,590 Bapu? 1881 02:57:24,802 --> 02:57:26,970 Bapu? 1882 02:57:28,639 --> 02:57:30,932 There's been no fighting... 1883 02:57:31,558 --> 02:57:32,642 anywhere. 1884 02:57:33,978 --> 02:57:35,436 It's stopped. 1885 02:57:36,230 --> 02:57:38,815 The madness has stopped. 1886 02:57:42,903 --> 02:57:44,487 It's foolish... 1887 02:57:44,697 --> 02:57:48,324 if it's just to save the life of an old man. 1888 02:57:48,575 --> 02:57:53,579 No. In every temple and mosque... 1889 02:57:53,956 --> 02:57:56,040 they have pledged to die... 1890 02:57:56,292 --> 02:57:59,294 before they lift a hand against each other. 1891 02:58:01,797 --> 02:58:03,548 It is true, Bapu. 1892 02:58:11,724 --> 02:58:13,516 Everywhere. 1893 02:58:48,177 --> 02:58:50,511 Maulana, my friend... 1894 02:58:52,556 --> 02:58:55,099 could I have some orange juice? 1895 02:59:01,982 --> 02:59:03,649 Then you and I... 1896 02:59:03,859 --> 02:59:06,736 will take a piece of bread together. 1897 02:59:36,975 --> 02:59:39,185 He will be saying prayers in the garden. 1898 02:59:47,653 --> 02:59:49,487 That is how you eat muli. 1899 02:59:50,364 --> 02:59:52,740 I'm not sure that I want to be remembered that way. 1900 02:59:52,741 --> 02:59:52,990 I'm not sure that I want to be remembered that way. 1901 02:59:53,200 --> 02:59:55,326 Don't worry. With luck, you may not be. 1902 02:59:55,536 --> 02:59:59,163 No, he will be remembered for tempting fate. 1903 03:00:00,332 --> 03:00:02,166 Mickey Mouse! 1904 03:00:03,377 --> 03:00:05,378 You're really going to Pakistan? 1905 03:00:10,259 --> 03:00:12,135 You are a stubborn man. 1906 03:00:14,221 --> 03:00:16,180 I'm simply going to prove... 1907 03:00:16,390 --> 03:00:18,975 to Hindus here and Muslims there... 1908 03:00:19,226 --> 03:00:22,437 that the only devils in the world are those... 1909 03:00:22,688 --> 03:00:25,148 running around in our own hearts. 1910 03:00:25,732 --> 03:00:29,193 And that is where all our battles ought to be fought. 1911 03:00:29,403 --> 03:00:31,070 Bapu. 1912 03:00:36,827 --> 03:00:41,622 So, what kind of warrior have you been in that warfare? 1913 03:00:43,250 --> 03:00:45,001 Not a very good one. 1914 03:00:45,210 --> 03:00:47,920 That's why I have so much tolerance... 1915 03:00:48,130 --> 03:00:51,382 for the other scoundrels of the world. 1916 03:00:55,804 --> 03:00:57,472 Sardar? 1917 03:00:57,639 --> 03:01:01,142 Ask Panditji to consider what we've discussed. 1918 03:01:07,608 --> 03:01:07,815 - Enough! - One more. 1919 03:01:07,816 --> 03:01:09,817 - Enough! - One more. 1920 03:01:10,152 --> 03:01:12,862 - You're a temptress! - Just an admirer. 1921 03:01:13,113 --> 03:01:15,239 Nothing's more dangerous... 1922 03:01:15,491 --> 03:01:17,658 especially for an old man. 1923 03:01:27,127 --> 03:01:29,337 There's a sadness about him. 1924 03:01:30,881 --> 03:01:32,465 He thinks he's failed. 1925 03:01:32,716 --> 03:01:34,133 Why? 1926 03:01:34,384 --> 03:01:37,845 If anything's proven him right, it's these last months. 1927 03:01:39,556 --> 03:01:42,099 I may be blinded by my love for him... 1928 03:01:42,851 --> 03:01:44,143 but I believe... 1929 03:01:44,394 --> 03:01:46,562 when we most needed it... 1930 03:01:46,772 --> 03:01:49,941 he offered the world a way out of madness. 1931 03:01:52,653 --> 03:01:53,986 But he doesn't see it. 1932 03:01:54,947 --> 03:01:56,864 Neither does the world. 1933 03:02:30,357 --> 03:02:32,525 Brother, Bapu is already late for prayers. 1934 03:02:35,320 --> 03:02:37,113 Oh, God! 1935 03:02:37,906 --> 03:02:39,865 Oh, God. 1936 03:03:18,572 --> 03:03:20,573 When I despair... 1937 03:03:20,866 --> 03:03:22,783 I remember... 1938 03:03:23,118 --> 03:03:25,369 that all through history... 1939 03:03:25,579 --> 03:03:30,082 the way of truth and love has always won. 1940 03:03:31,918 --> 03:03:35,504 There have been tyrants and murderers... 1941 03:03:35,756 --> 03:03:38,799 and for a time, they can seem invincible... 1942 03:03:39,009 --> 03:03:42,428 but in the end, they always fall. 1943 03:03:44,139 --> 03:03:45,681 Think of it.