Here's a gem of a film clip I got from the New Yorker magazine: a moment from a 1967 Hindi movie, named Aman, where a young Indian doctor, played by the very unsightly and singularly untalented Rajendra Kumar (we used to call him "gajendra" Kumar because of his ungainly elephantine gait) meets Betrand Russell in his house in London.
The Indian doctor is an idealist who earns his medical degree in London and wants to work in Japan to help victims of the Hiroshima Nagasaki nuclear holocaust.
Russell, reverentially referred to as the "lord" and the "mahapurush" in the movie, is 97 at this point in his life, and recognized globally for being a champion of nuclear disarmament, speaks in a shaky voice but it's all drowned by a obnoxious Hindi translation (subtitles weren't the norm back then in Bollywood).
Here's the clip:
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