Viceroy's House
– In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its p..
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
01 Sep 2017
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Gurinder Chadha
Paul Mayeda Berges (screenplay by), Gurinder Chadha (screenplay by), Moira Buffini (screenplay by), Larry Collins (based on the book "Freedom at Midnight" by), Dominique Lapierre (based on the book "Freedom at Midnight" by), Narendra Singh Sarila (based on the book "The Shadow of the Great Game - The Untold Story of Partition" by)
Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi
New Dehli in March 1947. The huge and stately Viceroy's Palace is like a beehive. Its five hundred employees are busy preparing the coming of Lord Louis Mountbatten, who has just been appointed new (and last) viceroy of India by prime minister Clement Attlee. Mountbatten, whose difficult task consists in overseeing the transition of British India to independence, arrives at the Palace, accompanied by his Edwina, his liberal-minded wife and by his eighteen-year-old daughter Pamela. Meanwhile, in the staff quarters, a love story is born between Jeet, a Hindu, and Aalia, a Muslim beauty. Things will prove difficult - not to say very difficult - both on the geopolitical and personal level.
1 win.
$1,014,067
Anguille Productions