Partition: 1947

Movie Review
Release on: Aug 15, 2017

Movie name	:	Partition: 1947
Genres	:	Biography, Drama, History
Run time	:	106 min
Produced by	:	Paul Mayeda Berges Gurinder Chadha
Directed by	:	Gurinder Chadha
Music by	:	A. R. Rahman
Writers	:	Paul Mayeda Berges, Paul Mayeda Berges
Cinematography	:	Ben Smithard
Edited by	:	Victoria Boydell
Production	:	Pathé BBC Films Bend It Films
Countries	:	UK, India

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Stars : Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Hugh Bonneville, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow, Lily Travers, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Simon Williams, Nicholas Blane, Sarah-Jane Dias, Roberta Taylor, Terence Harvey, Arunoday Singh, Lucy Fleming, Denzil Smith, Neeraj Kabi, Samrat Chakrabarti, Darshan Jariwala, Marcus Jean Pirae, Tanveer Ghani, Robin Soans, Raj Zutshi, Jaz Deol, Noah Zeiler, Trishaan, Eran Bein, Gerry George, Hans Raj Hans, Peter Van Den Berg, Hriiday Malhotra, Saloni Jain, Aly Van Den Berg, Asif Ali Beg, Raja Samar Singh Sarila, Anil Bhagwat, Kamal Karamchandani, Usha Jerajani, Majid Khan, Yusuf Khurram, Jasbir Singh Bagga, Navpreet Singh, Jaswant Rai, Sadicq Ali, Sheetal Chaudhary, Shoba Chandra, Shree Khan, Kumiko Kaur Chada Berges, Naresh Kumar, Ranu Machnas, Abrar Ahmed, Ronak Singh Chada Berges, Pankhuri Dhingra, Winston Churchill, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Edwina Mountbatten, Louis Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru

Story : New Dehli in March 1947. The huge and stately Viceroy's Palace is like a beehive. Its five hundred employees are busy preparing the coming of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who has just been appointed new (and last) viceroy of India by prime minister Clement Attlee. Mountbatten, whose difficult task consists in overseeing the transition of British India to independence, arrives at the Palace, accompanied by his Edwina, his liberal-minded wife and by his eighteen-year-old daughter Pamela. Meanwhile, in the staff quarters, a love story is born between Jeet, a Hindu, and Aalia, a Muslim beauty. Things will prove difficult - not to say very difficult - both on the geopolitical and personal level.

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Making a film on the partition of India and Pakistan is a tricky undertaking, bound to invoke polarizing sentiments around the portrayal of each side. Gurinder Chadha is well aware of this predicament and chooses to weave this defining moment in our nation's history around the singular uniting factor of love, and its various forms. On one hand, there's the romantic love between Huma Qureshi's Aalia and Manish Dayal's Jeet, on the other – the patriotic love Indians have for their country, and the Pakistanis for their own. Amidst this, there’s the compassion that Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville), and his wife Lady Edwina (Gillian Anderson) had for people in general.

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