Besetzung Ben Kingsley: Mahatma Gandhi Roshan Seth: Pandit Nehru Saeed Jaffrey: Sardar Patel Alyque Padamsee: Mohamed Ali Jinnah Rohini Hattangadi: Kasturba Gandhi Martin Sheen: Vince Walker Geraldine James: Mirabehn Ian Charleson: Charlie Andrews Günther Maria Halmer: Hermann Kallenbach John Gielgud: Lord Irwin Candice Bergen: Margaret Bourke-White Edward Fox: General Dyer Trevor Howard: Richter Broomfield John Mills: Vizekönig Frederic Thesiger Athol Fugard: General Smuts Amrish Puri: Khan Ian Bannen: Polizeikommandant Michael Bryant: Principal Secretary John Clements: Advocate General Richard Griffiths: Collins Nigel Hawthorne: Kinnoch Bernard Hepton: G.O.C. Michael Hordern: Sir George Hodge Shreeram Lagoo: Professor Gokhale Om Puri: Nahari Virendra Razdan: Maulana Azad Richard Vernon: Sir Edward Gait Supriya Pathak: Manu Nina Gupta: Abha Shane Rimmer: Kommentator Anang Desai: J. B. Kripalani Winston Ntshona: Porter Marius Weyers: Schaffner Alok Nath: Tyeb Mohammed Ken Hutchison: Polizei Sergeant Charu Bala Chokshi: Ayah Daniel Day-Lewis: Colin Mohan Agashe: Tyeb Mohammeds Freund Bernard Hill: Soldat Nana Palsikar: Dörfler Geoffrey Chater: Regierungsanwalt Habib Tanveer: indischer Jurist Bernard Horsfall: General Edgar Pankaj Kapoor: Pyarelal Tarla Mehta: Sarojini Naidu Terrence Hardiman: Ramsay MacDonald Tom Alter: Doktor im Aga-Khan-Palast Sekhar Chatterjee: Suhrawardy Harsh Nayyar: Nathuram Godse