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  1. The Making of the Mahatma is a 1996 biographical film directed by Shyam Benegal, [1] about the early life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi) during his 21 years in South Africa. The film is based upon the book The Apprenticeship of a Mahatma by Fatima Meer.

  2. Jul 31, 2012 · The Making of the Mahatma is M.K. Gandhi's early story of experiments with truth, which gave to mankind a new weapon of liberty, the most civilized and humane. The process of transformation...

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  3. Oct 4, 1996 · The Making of the Mahatma: Directed by Shyam Benegal. With Rajit Kapoor, Pallavi Joshi, Keith Stevenson, Paul Slabolepszy. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was invited to South Africa in 1893 to settle a case for a wealthy Indian settled there.

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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Shyam Benegal
    • 1996-10-04
  4. The Making of the Mahatma. Previous Next. A number of changes in Gandhi's personal life soon impacted his growing celebrity. The first was his achievement of Brahmacharya, or the voluntary abstention from sexual relations.

  5. This is the first pictorial biography of Gandhi in which the narrative-concise, readable and incisive is illustrated with contemporary photographs and facsimiles of letters, newspaper reports and cartoons, adding up to a fascinating flash-back on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian freedom led by him.

  6. Both epic and intimate, this adaptation of activist Fatima Meers book Apprenticeship of a Mahatma is a riveting portrait of the iconic Gandhi. Focusing on his time in South Africa, director Shyam Benegal and star Rajit Kapoor capture a period only briefly explored in other biopics about the man.

  7. First published over 50 years ago, The Making of the Mahatma was an important contribution to the literature on the life and thought of M. K. Gandhi. It was the first scholarly work to identify the forces that moulded the young boy from nineteenth-century Kathiawar into a force that sealed the fate of colonialism in the next century.