Gandhi (1982)

Saeed Jaffrey: Sardar Patel

Quotes 

• Sardar Patel : That's young Nehru. He's got his father's intellect, his mother's good looks, and the devil's own charm.

• Sardar Patel : And we should invite Gandhi. What the devil's happened to him anyway?

  Nehru : He's discovering India.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Which is a lot better than making trouble where it matters. Invite him, let him say his piece about South Africa, and then let him slip into oblivion.

• Sardar Patel : What do you think the daughter of an English admiral proposes to do in our ashram? Sink us?

• Nehru : The real India has Muslims and Hindus in every village and every city! How do you propose to separate them?

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Where there is a Muslim majority, that will be Pakistan. The rest is your India.

  Sardar Patel : My dear Jinnah, the Muslims are in a majority on two different sides of the country.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : Let us worry about Pakistan. You worry about India.

• Sardar Patel : An eye for an eye, making the whole world blind.

• Gandhi : My dear Jinnah, you and I are brothers born of the same Mother India. If you have fears, I want to put them at rest. Begging the understanding of my friends, I am asking Panditji to stand down. I want you to be the first Prime Minister of India, to name your entire cabinet, to make the head of every government department a Muslim.

  Nehru : Bapu, for me, and the rest, if that is what you want, we will accept it. But out there, already there is rioting, because Hindus fear you are going to give too much away.

  Sardar Patel : If you did this, no one would control it. No one.

  Mohamed Ali Jinnah : It is your choice. Do you want an independent India and an independent Pakistan? Or do you want civil war?

• Gandhi : Sardar, you have gained weight. You must join me in the fast.

  Sardar Patel : If I fast, I die. If you fast, people go to all sorts of trouble to keep you alive.

• Nehru : [as Gandhi starts to walk out of a meeting]  Bapu, please, where are you going?

  Gandhi : I don't want to hear more.

  Sardar Patel : We need your help!

  Gandhi : There is nothing I can give.