Partition: The Day India Burned
2007
90 minutes
Overview
Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were displaced and more than a million lost their lives. The story is told through the testimony of people who lived together for centuries, but were forced out of their homes as one of the largest and most ethnically diverse nations in the world was divided. Dramatised reconstructions evoke some of the mistrust, violence and upheaval that ensued
Top Cast
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Narrator
Roedad Khan
Self
Som Anand
Self
Nayantara Sahgal
Self
Jawaharlal Nehru
Self (archive footage)
Mahatma Gandhi
Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Self (archive footage)
Golok Majumdar
Self
Pran Chopra
Self
Ashoka Gupta
Self
Shankar Ghosh
Self
Pamela Hicks
Self
Narendra Singh Sarila
Self
Louis Mountbatten
Self (archive footage)
Aridaman Singh Dhillon
Self
Satish Gujral
Self