VICEROY'S HOUSE

By Gurinder CHADHA

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Drama - Post-Production 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2017
Competition (out of competition)
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gurinder CHADHA
    • Writer(s)
    • Gurinder CHADHA, Paul MAYEDA BERGES, Moira BUFFINI
    • Producer(s)
    • Deepak NAYAR , Gurinder CHADHA
    • Synopsis
    • Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. Mountbatten lived upstairs together with his wife and daughter. Downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite took their seats upstairs to wrangle over the birth of independent India and Pakistan, conflict erupted. throughout the House. No one would survive unscathed.