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Richard Attenborough

A screen shot from Gandhi with extra Aseem Chhabra as a passenger in the background on the train. In the foreground is Saeed Jaffrey (left) as Sardar Patel and Gunter Maria Halmer playing Herman Kallenbach.
Arts
Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi needed hundreds of thousands of extras. Meet one of them
Sir Richard Attenborough
Culture
Director and actor Richard Attenborough saw film as a powerful vehicle for change