des plaines slot carsRecalling his time shooting for the funeral scene, Ben had earlier shared in an interview with BAFTA on the 25th anniversary of the film that the scene was first being shot with a wax-like model but the look wasn’t right so director Richard Attenborough asked him to step in and lay down. Ben shared that for the first few minutes, the extras were throwing flowers at his face just to get a reaction out of him but he stayed composed. Soon, the crowd fell silent and all they could hear were the marching footsteps. Years later, in an interview with GQ, Ben said, “I think that the coincidence of loving (Gandhi) deeply as a man to portray, did empower me through those long demanding days in India. And people in India were enormously generous. You see, there was no CGI, can you believe that? That is four hundred thousand people at his funeral. That felt extraordinary to me.”Matthan, who started off as an ad filmmaker, got a taste of feature filmmaking when he first assisted Govind Nihlani on Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Amrish Puri’s Aakrosh (1980) and then Richard Attenborough on Ben Kingsley’s Gandhi (1982). The fire in his belly to make “impactful” cinema was burning at the time, and he made his directorial debut with Aamir Khan’s Sarfarosh (1999).Panasonic Corp sold its stake in electric car maker Tesla Inc for about 400 billion yen ($3.61 billion) in the year ended March, a spokesperson for the Japanese company said on Friday.