if by the movies you mean the attenborough film "gandhi", i am afraid attenborough did not quite follow nehru's alleged advice to not paint the man as a saint. while some of the criticisms levelled against gandhi (the man, not the movie; for excessive criticism of both see any of the rants by grenier) has been excessive and patronizing (naipaul qualifies eminently in both categories), there is more than a grain of truth to the notion that gandhi was a shrewd politician and adept at pointing out the alternative ([10,000] britishers cannot keep [100] million indians under control, to quote roughly).
expanding the scope a bit, a quick search on the net yielded a couple of pieces (one by ashish nandy and another by george orwell):
http://www.littlemag.com/nandy.htm http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/ghandi.htm
perhaps something by ambedkar would also be informative.
http://www.ambedkar.org/research/GandhiAmbedkar.htm
--ravi