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Partition: The Day India Burned

0.0 90 mins Documentary   History   2007
BBC  
Director(s): Ricardo Pollack

Release Date: 01 Mon, Jan 2007

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

Casts of Partition: The Day India Burned

Chiwetel Ejiofor

as Narrator

Roedad Khan

as Self

Som Anand

as Self

Jawaharlal Nehru

as Self (archive footage)

Mahatma Gandhi

as Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

as Self (archive footage)

Golok Majumdar

as Self

Pran Chopra

as Self

Ashoka Gupta

as Self

Shankar Ghosh

as Self

Pamela Hicks

as Self

Louis Mountbatten

as Self (archive footage)

Satish Gujral

as Self

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