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No. Gandhi is based on a screenplay by John Briley.

The first invitation was made in 1966 when the two were in the Far East shooting The Sand Pebbles (1966). Attenborough hoped one day to direct the Gandhi biopic and felt that Candice Bergen would be ideal in the role of Margaret Bourke-White. Bergen was thrilled, knew the work of Bourke-White, and wanted the role. Bergen was 19 at the time, but It would be 16 more years before Gandhi would be realized.

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948, shot at point-blank range by Nathuram Godse, an activist of the Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organization that was concerned about Gandhi's attempts to unite Indian and Muslim societies. This was actually the sixth attempt at Gandhi's life. Information about the assassination attempts can be found here.