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Alternate Takes: Rude Gandhi

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The setup

A familiar screen portrayal of Gandhi gets a prickly revision.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A British officer’s sober proposal about partition gets an aggressively undiplomatic response from Gandhi. The brief film parody trades the familiar image of restraint for swearing and a smug grin.

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A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The BBC omitted this sketch from its 2026 iPlayer re-release.

ScriptEnglish · 3 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:02

    Speaker 1

    Free Gandy!

  2. 00:04

    British Officer

    Which means, Mr. Gandy, that partition is the only workable solution.

  3. 00:09

    Gandhi

    You can shove that up your arse, you shit!

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