How many extras appeared in the funeral scene of Gandhi?
Movies & TV hard Data from 1982
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The answer
300,000 extras
Roughly 300K.
The funeral scene in Gandhi used about 300,000 extras, the most ever assembled for a film. Around 94,000 were paid; the rest simply turned up. It was shot on the 33rd anniversary of the real funeral, with eleven cameras rolling at once.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Guinness World Records |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 1982 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | extras |
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