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– It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness..
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.
07 Jul 1999
Hindi, English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, Bapsi Sidhwa (novel)
Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna
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.
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Zeitgeist Films