Image Claiming to Depict Gandhi’s Assassination is from 1963 Film

A tweet carrying this image claimed it depicts Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination

(Photo Altered by The Quint)

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CLAIM

On Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday, an image claiming to be depicting the father of the nation’s assassination got circulated on social media.

The tweet put out by a handle @MohdMuzzammilK carries a picture shows a bald man fallen on the ground and another person being held by two men, in the background. The caption in the tweet claimed that the person in the background is Nathuram Godse.

Tweet claiming to depict Gandhi’s assassination(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/@MohdMuzzammilK)

An archived version of the tweet can be seen here.

REALITY

The image is in fact a shot from Mark Robson’s 1963 Hollywood production ‘Nine Hours to Rama.’

The film was banned in India upon its release as it was a heavily fictionalised account of the plot to assassinate Gandhi based on Stanley Wolpert’s 1962 novel by the same name.

Photo from the purported tweet (L) and screenshot from the film.(Photo Altered By The Quint)

In a YouTube link of a portion of the film, the image carried in the tweet can be seen at the 3:01 mark.

HOW DID WE FIND OUT?

Multiple comments on the tweet suggested that the photo is from a movie. Upon searching with the keywords 'Gandhi assassination documentary image', The Quint came across a Scroll article debunking the claim.

The Quint could then access the YouTube link of the clipping of the film and independently verify that the image is a shot from the same.

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