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Aug 17, 2017 · 18 Aug, 2017. Hindi. 1 hr 46 mins. Drama History. Check Movie Details. 3.5/5 Critic's Rating. 3.4/5 Avg. Users' Rating. /5Rate Movie. /5 Your Rating. ×. Synopsis. 'Partition: 1947’ runs the gamut of emotions at the end of the British colonial rule in India, making this a timely and riveting watch. Read More. Cast & Crew. Gurinder Chadha Director.
- Gurinder Chadha
- Neil Soans
- Huma Qureshi
- Garm Hava
- Tamas
- Earth
- Train to Pakistan
- Partition
MS Sathyu’s debut feature, shot on a shoestring budget of two lakhs, remains a landmark film of Hindi cinema. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and India’s official Oscar entry, it asks hard-hitting questions about home, belonging and the politics that manufacture schisms and tensions amongst once harmonious populations. Base...
Based on the novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni, the events described in TV mini-series Tamas are based on true accounts of the Rawalpindi riots of 1947. Govind Nihalani’s screen adaptation tells the story of immigrant families during the Indian Partition through a Sikh and Hindu husband-and-wife. The man, a sweeper named Nathu (played by the ...
The second film in Deepa Mehta’s Fire, Earth and Water trilogy, Earth is based on the 1988 novel ‘Cracking India’ by Bapsi Sidhwa. It focuses on the romance between a Muslim youth and the beautiful Hindu ayah (a colonial construct that used to designate servant; here, nanny) to our eight-year-old narrator, Lenny. Lenny is the daughter of a middle c...
Kushwant Singh’s classic postcolonial novel ‘Train to Pakistan’ was adapted for the screen by Pamela Rooks in this moving, semi-documentary style Hindi film. It focuses on Mano Majrah, a small Punjabi town on a key railway line near India’s new border with Pakistan. This majority Sikh town with its small Muslim minority becomes a microcosm for the ...
A Canadian production filmed in both British Columbia and on-location in India, Vic Sarin’s two-hour, English-language film received criticism for appealing first and foremost to Western audiences. Partition isn’t the sole focus of the film, but rather the impetus that drives its love story. Gian (Jimi Mistry) is a Sikh soldier who resigns from the...
Partition: 1947 movie review – The simplistic retelling and the obvious bias rob the film of its complexity. Stutee Ghosh. Published: 17 Aug 2017, 1:26 PM IST. Movie Reviews. 3 min read....
- Hindustan Times. Partition-1947 movie review: If it wasn’t Lord Mountbatten then who divided India? Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Rohit Vats. Aug 17, 2017 07:25 PM IST. The idea is to...
- Huma Qureshi, Hugh Bonneville
- Gurinder Chadha
Aug 16, 2017 · Partition: 1947 movie review: An untold story that deserves a watch. Home. Bubble Reviews. Directed By: Gurinder Chadha. Produced By: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar....
Aug 16, 2017 · Partition: 1947 Movie Review: Gripping Tale Of A Heartbreaking Expedition. It's always good to explore some unknown things about your history and this film provides some. By....
Apr 3, 2019 · Director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha embeds a fictionalized Hindu-Muslim love story in her faux-historical pastiche about the Partition of India and its horrific fallout. The result isn't ...
