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- Partition is a 2007 English-language period film directed by Vic Sarin, written by Patricia Finn and Vic Sarin, and starring Jimi Mistry, Irrfan Khan and Kristin Kreuk. The film is set in 1947, based on the Partition of India and was partially shot in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
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Partition is a 2007 English-language period film directed by Vic Sarin, written by Patricia Finn and Vic Sarin, and starring Jimi Mistry, Irrfan Khan and Kristin Kreuk. [1] The film is set in 1947, based on the Partition of India and was partially shot in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. [2][3]
Partition: Directed by Vic Sarin. With Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, John Light. During the turmoil and violence of Partition, a Sikh ex-soldier, haunted by war, offers shelter to a young Muslim woman who has been separated from her family.
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- Drama, Romance
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MS Sathyu’s debut feature, shot on a shoestring budget of two lakhs, remains a landmark film of Hindi cinema. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and India’s official Oscar entry, it asks hard-hitting questions about home, belonging and the politics that manufacture schisms and tensions amongst once harmonious populations. Base...
Based on the novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni, the events described in TV mini-series Tamas are based on true accounts of the Rawalpindi riots of 1947. Govind Nihalani’s screen adaptation tells the story of immigrant families during the Indian Partition through a Sikh and Hindu husband-and-wife. The man, a sweeper named Nathu (played by the ...
The second film in Deepa Mehta’s Fire, Earth and Water trilogy, Earth is based on the 1988 novel ‘Cracking India’ by Bapsi Sidhwa. It focuses on the romance between a Muslim youth and the beautiful Hindu ayah (a colonial construct that used to designate servant; here, nanny) to our eight-year-old narrator, Lenny. Lenny is the daughter of a middle c...
Kushwant Singh’s classic postcolonial novel ‘Train to Pakistan’ was adapted for the screen by Pamela Rooks in this moving, semi-documentary style Hindi film. It focuses on Mano Majrah, a small Punjabi town on a key railway line near India’s new border with Pakistan. This majority Sikh town with its small Muslim minority becomes a microcosm for the ...
A Canadian production filmed in both British Columbia and on-location in India, Vic Sarin’s two-hour, English-language film received criticism for appealing first and foremost to Western audiences. Partition isn’t the sole focus of the film, but rather the impetus that drives its love story. Gian (Jimi Mistry) is a Sikh soldier who resigns from the...
Aug 6, 2022 · Each half was afforded its own video but filmed in different locations. As for “Partition”, with its director being Jake Nava, it was shot, under a tight schedule, in France. To note Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z, makes a cameo appearance therein.
During the turmoil and violence of Partition, a Sikh ex-soldier, haunted by war, offers shelter to a young Muslim woman who has been separated from her family.
Feb 2, 2007 · The film is set in 1947, based on the partition of India and was partially shot in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38-year-old Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry) resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life.
The film is a Romeo & Juliet tale set at the time of the cultural division of Muslims and Sikhs in the late 1940's, when Pakistan and India were officially divided and the Muslims migrated to Pakistan. Sarin was raised in the disputed Kashmir region, and the tragic plot of Partition is partly based on real people his family knew at the time. In ...
