The movie "Gandhi" was just as interesting as it was informational. Mohandas Gandhi, more widely known as Mahatma Gandhi was the prominent leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The movement as well as the movie started off with Gandhi protesting the passes that the British were forcing all Indians to carry. Gandhi felt that if everyone did not have to carry these passes there was no reason that the Indians should. He decided to burn his along with anyone else's who was sick of the unfair treatment by the British. Upon doing this he receives his first beating. Instead of changing this law for the better, the government decides to enforce a rule that all Indians must be finger printed. Naturally, Gandhi as well as many others refuse to comply and they are imprisoned. The act is eventually appealed and everyone is let out of prison.
Gandhi feels that he must leave South Africa and go back to his roots in India were he can live amongst his people. He lives a humble life......
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