Excerpt: Regrets, None by Dolly Thakore
Hindustan TimesIn July 1979, Rani Dube passed through Bombay. Mrs Gandhi had given the project her blessing and introduced the two of them to the National Film Development Corporation of India … During the filming of Gandhi, with Simon Kaye, Michael Stewart, Rani Dubey, Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Saeed Jaffrey, Richard Attenborough and Billy WIlliams in November 1980 375pp, ₹599; HarperCollins On the 25th of July, Rani brought Richard over to my apartment at around 3 in the afternoon. But the moment Alyque walked in through the door, Richard turned to me and said, “That’s my Jinnah.” Two days later, he rang me up. One of the major criticisms at the time was that Ben Kingsley was too ‘muscular’ to play Gandhi. We’d already had one headline: ‘Ben Kingsley, Gandhi, drinking beer.’ He was also an attractive man in the middle of a career-defining performance, so we had to shield him from the ladies.
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