Attenborough believes that the careful weighing and sifting of the voluminous material available on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, plus the equally painstaking choices and ocasional amalgamation of historical characters - ''We cheat like mad,'' he said - have given him the right mix for the kind of film he wanted to make. ''The only kind of epics that work,'' he said, ''are intimate epics.''
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Attenborough said recently in one of a series of conversations about the making of ''Gandhi.'' ''And the temptations of filming in India are simply dreadful,'' he said, explaining the deliberation with which he curbed the camera's tendency to linger over the touristic vistas that appear as backdrop at every turn in that physically spectacular country.
''Of course it's a cheek, it's an impudence to tell 50, 60, 70 years of history in three hours,'' Mr. ''No man can write a real life of Gandhi,'' Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, once wrote, ''unless he is as big as Gandhi.'' These are stories so close to the national nerve that no Indian feature filmmaker has tried to tell them, and there are many Indians who believe that no foreigner should have been given Indian Government backing - as Mr. The story of Gandhi is also the story of more than half a century in the history of India - vast, tumultuous, squalid, glorious, seductive India. It is a film that moves chronologically, episodically, from an unknown young barrister's catalytic collision with racial and cultural bigotry in turn-of-thecentury South Africa to the 1948 assassination in a Delhi garden of the man the world had come to know as the Mahatma - the ''Great Soul.'' ''Gandhi'' is the story of a complex man, a wise and wily politician who manuevered India to independence from imperial Britain while living the nonviolent, austere, communal life that was his impossible vision for all Indian society. The hope at last a reality, ''Gandhi,'' more than three hours long and made at a cost of $22 million, opens this week in New Delhi and London, next week in New York at the Ziegfeld. For 20 years, Richard Attenborough has been a man with an obsession: to bring to the screen the life of Mahatma Gandhi - and to prove in the process that there is a place in contemporary cinema for the big biographical film.
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