Gandhi (1982)

Alyque Padamsee: Mohamed Ali Jinnah

Quotes 

• 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.

• Mohamed Ali Jinnah : I would rather be ruled by an Indian terrorist than an English one.

• 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.

• Mohamed Ali Jinnah : The world is not made of Mahatma Gandhis. I am talking about the real world.

• 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?

• Mohamed Ali Jinnah : I will not stand by to see the mastery of the British replaced by the mastery of the Hindus.