Viceroy's House (2017)

Directed by

Gurinder Chadha

Genre

drama film

Country

India, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 294 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Lord Mountbatten as he oversees the partition of India in 1947. It shows the political and human costs of dividing the country into India and Pakistan.

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What happens

Viceroy's House is a 2017 historical drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini, and Chadha. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, and Michael Gambon. It was selected to be screened out of competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2017, while the Hindi dubbed version titled Partition: 1947 was released in India on 18 August 2017, three days after its 70th Independence Day. It was released worldwide on 1 September 2017. Viceroy's House is based on Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, and The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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