Gandhi (1982)

Roshan Seth: Pandit Nehru

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• Nehru : Bapuji, the whole country is moving.

  Gandhi : Yes. but in what direction?

• Nehru : Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying... What do you want?

  Gandhi : That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.

• Nehru : He told the press he'd support the British in the war.

  Prakash : That's non-violence for you.

• Sardar Patel : And we should invite Gandhi. What the devil's happened to him anyway?

  Nehru : He's discovering India.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Which is a lot better than making trouble where it matters. Invite him, let him say his piece about South Africa, and then let him slip into oblivion.

• Nehru : Terrorism would only justify their repression. And what kinds of leaders would it throw up? Are they likely to be the men we would want at the head of our country?

• Nehru : All over India, people are praying that you will end the fast. They're walking in the streets, offering garlands to the police... and to British soldiers.

  Gandhi : Perhaps I have overdone it.

• Nehru : The real India has Muslims and Hindus in every village and every city! How do you propose to separate them?

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Where there is a Muslim majority, that will be Pakistan. The rest is your India.

  Sardar Patel : My dear Jinnah, the Muslims are in a majority on two different sides of the country.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Let us worry about Pakistan. You worry about India.

• Gandhi : My dear Jinnah, you and I are brothers born of the same Mother India. If you have fears, I want to put them at rest. Begging the understanding of my friends, I am asking Panditji to stand down. I want you to be the first Prime Minister of India, to name your entire cabinet, to make the head of every government department a Muslim.

  Nehru : Bapu, for me, and the rest, if that is what you want, we will accept it. But out there, already there is rioting, because Hindus fear you are going to give too much away.

  Sardar Patel : If you did this, no one would control it. No one.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : It is your choice. Do you want an independent India and an independent Pakistan? Or do you want civil war?

• Gandhi : Independence will fall like a ripe apple. The only question is when and how.

  Nehru : Well, I say, when is now! And we will determine how.

• Nehru : [as Gandhi starts to walk out of a meeting]  Bapu, please, where are you going?

  Gandhi : I don't want to hear more.

  Sardar Patel : We need your help!

  Gandhi : There is nothing I can give.