India's Grammy winner Ricky Kej recently stated that the West had forgotten about the freedom fighter until Sir Richard Attenborough's film 'Gandhi', which starred Ben Kingsley in the titular role, won several Oscars in 1983. Even today when people in the West imagine Gandhiji, it is Ben Kingsley who they see, and not Gandhiji himself, he added.
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