Synopsis
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.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Aamir KhanDil Navaz
- Nandita DasShanta
- Rahul KhannaHassan
- Maia SethnaLenny Sethna
- Kitu GidwaniBunty Sethna
- Arif ZakariaRustom Sethna
- Eric PetersonMr. Rogers
- Kulbhushan KharbandaImam Din
- Pavan MalhotraButcher
- Sunil MehraToto Ramji
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Even blood, spilled so freely, has a distinctive intensity of red in this beautiful and harrowing film. - 90
L.A. Weekly
Both visually and emotionally, a panoramic picture; Mehta wields a master's hand as she weaves together vistas of urban and pastoral India with thoughts on the nature of man as it keeps cycling out in the specifics of history. - 88
Chicago Tribune
An extraordinary movie on many levels. - 88
New York Post
A remarkable accomplishment. It takes one of the century's vast tragedies...and makes it heart-rendingly real and intimate. - 80
Film.com
Mehta's latest release, combines a similarly intoxicating visual immediacy and delight with a sobering outsider's long view. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Told as a melodrama and romance, not docudrama, and that makes it all the more effective. - 75
Boston Globe
Hurls its Holocaust at us in a series of justifiably horrific images. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a passionate, beautifully mounted film -- but the agenda she sets for herself is too large and the conflicts she portrays too complicated to be illustrated in a single drama.
