Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha says she has made “Partition: 1947” with a lot of love, and hopes it is appreciated by Indian audiences.The film narrates the story of the trauma that people went through due to the division, and how it changed their lives. It released in India on Friday.
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Took lot of care to make a good film:
- “Partition: 1947” was released internationally as “Viceroy’s House”. For the film,
- the British film director of Sikh origin went back to trace her roots and document events that led to India’s Partition.
- “While making a movie, we take a lot of care to make a good film, but at the release point of the movie,
- all is in God’s hands,” Chadha said at the special screening of the film here.
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- the way it has been appreciated in other countries like UK, France, Germany and Australia,” she added.
- Taking the lead from Narendra Singh Sarila’s book “The Shadow of the Great Game”,
- she has also brought in the British side of the story, and showed what role Lord Mountbatten played in all of it.
- The Indian and Pakistani cast of the project is led by Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi and the late Om Puri.
- The roles of the principal political leaders are played by Tanveer Ghani (Jawaharlal Nehru),
- Denzil Smith (Muhammad Ali Jinnah) and Neeraj Kabi (Mahatma Gandhi).
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- Lily Travers as their daughter Pamela, and Michael Gambon and Simon Callow as key civil servants.
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- The film has released alongside Bollywood movie “Bareilly Ki Barfi”, but she is not bothered about the clash.