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The aam aadmi behind Attenborough’s Gandhi
When the actor-director Richard Attenborough died recently, the tributes mostly focused on the film Gandhi. But only one of the many obituaries I saw mentioned — and that in passing — the remarkable (and remarkably self-effacing) man who was instrumental in persuading Attenborough to convey the Mahatma’s life and struggles so eloquently on celluloid.
This ‘unknown Indian’ was named Motilal Kothari.
Of Gujarati origin, he had settled in London, where he worked on the staff of the Indian High Commission.
Motilal nehru father nameWhen, in the late 1950s, he was diagnosed with heart trouble, he resolved to “sell my life dearly”. As he later recalled, “I decided I had to try to do something, however small, which I believed to be a positive step for humanity”.
Gandhi’s message of peace resonated ever more strongly in a world engulfed by violence — why not have it expressed in that most popular medium, the feature film?
In October 1961, Kothari approached Louis Fis