Of that, a large part was spent in London before he spent 23 in South Africa.

There are a lot of elements of that story that are not known but are important to the history.

Richard Attenboroughs [1982] movie covers it in 15 minutes, and were doing an eight-part series.

Tom Felton, Pratik Gandhi, Sameer Nair and Hansal Mehta

Tom Felton, Pratik Gandhi, Sameer Nair and Hansal MehtaGetty; Applause

This is the making of the man, compared with the great man.

Its a really important story to tell Gandhi is the most important Indian.

We have an advantage of name recognition, but we have to tell the origin story to Superman.

Kabir Khan and Sameer Nair

A lot of them gave us written feedback, which was really useful.

Once its ready, well go back and show it to them.

Im looking forwards to that.

The paired bonded over their vegetarianism and went on to have a long friendship.

They shared a close relationship as friends and people with the same ideals.

We are chasing a story of discovery, said Mehta.

We often forget the importance of self-introspection and reflection, and learning lessons from your flaws.

That is the bigger story from Gandhis first 30 years.

Those formative years created those ideas.

We have the same surname and I come from the same cast as him, he added.

However, I had no idea I would perform Gandhi in a longer-form series.

Its a dream, both on stage and screen.

I keep saying Ive been practising this role on stage for years.