Cast
During pre-production, there was much speculation as to who would play the role of Gandhi. The choice was Ben Kingsley, who is partly of Indian heritage (his father was Gujarati and his birth name is Krishna Bhanji).
- Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi
- Harsh Nayyar as Nathuram Godse
- Roshan Seth as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
- Saeed Jaffrey as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Virendra Razdan as Maulana Azad
- Anang Desai as Acharya Kripalani
- Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White
- Edward Fox as Brigadier General Reginald Dyer
- Sir John Gielgud as the 1st Baron Irwin
- Trevor Howard as Judge R. S. Broomfield, the presiding judge in Gandhi's sedition trial.
- Sir John Mills as the 3rd Baron Chelmsford
- Shane Rimmer as Commentator
- Martin Sheen as Vince Walker, a fictional journalist based partially on Webb Miller.
- Ian Charleson as Reverend Charles Freer Andrews
- Athol Fugard as General Jan Smuts
- Günther Maria Halmer as Dr. Herman Kallenbach
- Geraldine James as Mirabehn (Madeleine Slade)
- Alyque Padamsee as Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Amrish Puri as Khan
- Dilsher Singh as Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Frontier Gandhi)
- Ian Bannen as Senior Officer Fields
- Richard Griffiths as Collins
- Nigel Hawthorne as Kinnoch
- Richard Vernon as Sir Edward Albert Gait, Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa
- Michael Hordern as Sir George Hodge
- Shreeram Lagoo as Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Terrence Hardiman as Ramsay MacDonald
- Om Puri as Nahari
- Bernard Hill as Sergeant Putnam
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Colin, a young man who insults Gandhi and Andrews
- John Ratzenberger as American Lt. Driver for Bourke-White
- Pankaj Mohan as Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai
- Pankaj Kapoor as Gandhi's second secretary, Pyarelal.
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