MUMBAI: Times Network’s movie channels Movies Now and MN+ will simulcast - Gandhi - a biopic on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 30 January, 2016 at 1 pm.

Directed and produced by Richard Attenborough and written by John Briley, the film features Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, Saeed Jaffrey playing the role of Sardar Patel, Alyque Padamsee as Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Roshan Seth as Jawaharlal Nehru. The 1982 biopic dramatises the life of Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent struggle for independence from the British, and also stars Amrish Puri as Khan, Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White, John Gielgud as Lord Irwin and Martin Sheen as Walker, among others.

Gandhi has bagged eight Oscars along with 10 Golden Globe awards, and several top creative and technical awards from some of the most reputed guilds and associations across the world.

The movie will also have a repeat telecast on Movies Now at 11 pm on the same day.