300,000 extras for 125 seconds in Gandhi
An opening scene shot in one morning, listed in the Guinness World Records.
The video this brief is aboutThe film Gandhi features a 125-second sequence with 300,000 extras. Shot on January 31 1981 on Rajpath Avenue in New Delhi, it recreates the Mahatma's funeral, 33 years after the actual burial. The production initially hired 94,560 people, then launched a radio-TV and street campaign that attracted 200,000 additional volunteers. In total, eleven cameras filmed the crowd in a single morning, creating one of cinema's most impressive scenes. According to AlloCiné, the feature won 8 Oscars and the sequence is officially listed in the Guinness World Records.
