Earth

Name: Earth
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1999-07-07
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.80
Cast: Maia Sethna, Rahul Khanna, Nandita Das, Aamir Khan

– It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

7.80 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 50 Minutes

Release Year:

1998

Original Name:

1947: Earth

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Styles:

Lyrical, Harsh, Bloody, Tense, Melancholic, Sincere, Emotional, Realistic, Captivating, Serious

Story Timeline:

Year 1947, 1940s, 20th Century

Producing Country:

Canada, India

Filming Locations:

Pakistan, Tokyo, New Delhi, Asia, India

Genre:

War, Romance, Drama

Release Date:

07 Jul 1999

Language:

Hindi, English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu

MPAA Content-Rating:

Unrated

Earth (1999)

Directed by:

Deepa Mehta

Story Written By:

Bapsi Sidhwa, Deepa Mehta

Main Actors:

Maia Sethna, Rahul Khanna, Nandita Das, Aamir Khan

Plot:

The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.

Awards:

1 win.

Production Company:

Zeitgeist Films

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

86%

Metacritic:

71%