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Partition: The Day India Burned

01/01/2007

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1hr 30min

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Documentary

,History

STORY

Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. The story is told through the testimony of people who lived together for centuries, but were forced out of their homes as one of the largest and most ethnically diverse nations in the world was divided. Dramatised reconstructions evoke some of the mistrust, violence and upheaval that ensued

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Roedad Khan
  • Som Anand
  • Nayantara Sahgal
  • Jawaharlal Nehru

    Director

  • Ricardo Pollack

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Narrator

Roedad Khan

Self

Som Anand

Self

Nayantara Sahgal

Self

Jawaharlal Nehru

Self (archive footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Self (archive footage)

Golok Majumdar

Self

Pran Chopra

Self

Ashoka Gupta

Self