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7.3/10   70 votes
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Director:
Pamela Rooks
Writers:
Pamela Rooks (writer)
Khushwant Singh (novel)
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Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Fine adaptation of Khushwant Singh's classic novel more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min
Country:
UK | India
Language:
Hindi
Color:
Color
Certification:
India:A

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14 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Fine adaptation of Khushwant Singh's classic novel, 3 February 2003
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Author: DoctorJones24 from USA

I finally got around to seeing this film the other day, and it was worth the wait. It tells the story of a small town on the border of India/Pakistan just as partition is ripping the cultures apart. Singh's novel of the same title came out in 1956, and was probably the first English language novel to deal with this traumatic historical event, which saw nearly 10 million people rendered homeless, and perhaps 1 million murdered, raped, and kidnapped. Rooks takes Singh's social realist narrative and faithfully transcribes it to the screen, with the allegory of India's tragic fate still bitterly intact. Hopefully, this film will gather a wider audience later in its life than it had upon release when it was all but ignored, in India and abroad. It has an important message to us all about the reality of cross-cultural harmony being destroyed by desperate and ignorant ideologues. Unfortunately, the current political climate in India and Pakistan seems largely uninterested in such a view right now.

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