One of these visitors, Nathuram Godse, shoots him point blank in the chest. : 18–21 After an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. The film begins on the day of Gandhi's assassination on 30 January 1948. The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers explaining their approach to the problem of filming Gandhi's complex life story: The screenplay of Gandhi is available as a published book. The film was screened retrospective on 12 August 2016 as the Opening Film at the Independence Day Film Festival jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating 70th Indian Independence Day. Richard Attenborough won for Best Director, and Ben Kingsley won for Best Actor. It was nominated for Academy Awards in eleven categories, winning eight, including Best Picture. Gandhi was released in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December, and in the United States on 10 December. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. The film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment, and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Gandhi was written by John Briley and produced and directed by Richard Attenborough. Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film which dramatises the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom's rule of the country during the 20th century.