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Gripping drama throughout.
In 1947, British statesman Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) serves as India's last Viceroy and is charged with handing India back to its people.
But the transition of British India to independence meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Seventy years after the partition of India, director Gurinder Chadha delivers a lavish and heartfelt account of the household caught in the middle – and of the millions of people who were uprooted or killed in what remains the largest mass migration of people in history.
