Which Film Had The Most Extras?

It is believed over 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene of the 1982 epic, Gandhi (UK), directed by Richard Attenborough. This makes Gandhi the film with most extras ever. The production team consisted of Richard Attenborough, who produced and directed the film, associate producer Suresh Jindal and co-producer Rani Dube. The script was written by John Briley and Ben Kingsley starred as Mahatma Gandhi.

The epic biography charting the life of Mahatma Gandhi from a simple lawyer to a worldwide symbol of peace and understanding has won an incredible eight Academy Awards. The film takes us from his London studies to becoming a young lawyer in South Africa, as an Indian he becomes subject to apartheid laws which leads him into direct confrontation with the apartheid regime of South Africa. Later in his native India, Gandhi's methods of civil disobedience and passive resistance are used to form a peaceful movement to liberate his country from British rule; "You have been guests' in our home for long enough. Now we would like you to leave." When India won independence after WWII, religious differences came to the fore without a common foe to fight, and the country was partitioned into Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India. A Hindu assassin later gunned down Gandhi himself.