Summary:
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.
| Runtime: | 110 min |
|---|---|
| Production: | Cracking the Earth Films Inc. |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance, War |
| Countries: | India, Canada |
| Languages: | English, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Parsee |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Deepa Mehta | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Bapsi Sidhwa | Writer |
| Deepa Mehta | Writer |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Arif Zakaria | Rustom Sethna |
| Babby Singh | Yousaf |
| Cinia Jain | Mrs. Singh |
| Eric Peterson | Mr. Rogers (IG) |
| Gulshan Grover | Mr. Singh |
| Kabir Chowdhury | Cousin Adi |
| Kitu Gidwani | Bunty Sethna |
| Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Imam Din |
| Lauren Walker | Mrs. Rogers |
| Maia Sethna | Lenny Sethna |
| Nandita Das | Shanta, The Ayah |
| Navtej Singh Johar | Sher Singh |
| Pavan Malhotra | Butcher |
| Raghuvir Yadav | Hariya/Himmat Ali |
| Rahul Khanna | Hassan, The Masseur |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Anne Masson | Producer |
| David Hamilton | Executive Producer |
| Deepa Mehta | Producer |
| Dilip Mehta | Creative Producer |
| Jhamu Sughand | Executive Producer |
| Sean Atkinson | Post-Production Producer |
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