Charlie Chaplin and Gandhi
Charlie Chaplin and Gandhi these two icons Meet in East London the 23rd of September 1931.
Gandhi went to London in 1931.Charlie Chaplin was also in London that time.He soon became a big star of Hollywood silent movies.
That time he was in London primarily for the British premiere of City Lights. He was becoming politically minded and wanted to share his thoughts with 'great people'. For this he met George Bernard Shaw, Ramsay MacDonald, H.G. Wells and Churchill, and he wanted to meet Gandhi also.
The only one big chance was while Gandhi was visiting a doctor friend not far from Kingsley Hall in the East End. Crowds gathered to follow Gandhi and more crowds were there to see Chaplin. It was only a brief meeting but they made the front pages of the newspapers.
Mahatma Gandhi impressed Charlie Chaplin with his view that supreme independence meant shedding oneself of unnecessary things.
Chaplin believed this principle was the basis of Gandhi's political-economic-spiritual argument against machinery.
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