This incredible scene from Gandhi’s masterpiece lasts only 2 minutes, but it entered the Guinness Book of Records.

For Richard Attenborough, the Gandhi journey began in December 1962 when he received a call from Motilal Kothar. A member of the Indian High Commission in London, Kothar was determined to find a producer who could make a major motion picture of the much-loved spiritual and political leader, Mohandas K. On the life of Gandhi.

After reading only 48 pages of Mahatma’s biography (the Indian “beautiful soul”), Richard Attenborough decided that not only would he be the producer of the project – for this purpose he created an independent structure with some friends from the British film community – but. That he was going to do it too.

However, it took the director 20 years to bring to life this extraordinary historical fresco, which was awarded nine Oscars, including one for the legendary Ben Kingsley, a great figure of the British theater, who agreed to play the title role after he had it. He spent 37 years on stage.

If Gandhi He made history, not only because of his well-deserved Oscar. It also got there thanks to the absolutely incredible scene that opens Attenborough’s film: Gandhi’s Funeral. Scene shot in Rajpath, Delhi.

Here he is again…

In fact, this scene, which lasted barely 2 minutes, even made it into the book Guinness World Records. The production actually hired 100,000 extras. But still it was not enough. After announcements were made on the radio, street loudspeakers, newspapers and even television, another 200,000 people came to augment Gandhi’s proposed national burial site.

The scene, which featured 300,000 people, was filmed by eleven cameras one morning on January 31, 1981, the 33rd anniversary of the official date of Gandhi’s funeral.

Suffice it to say, we’re not ready to see this kind of footage “hard” again, where from now on it’s CGI that’s taken over massively…