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VICEROY'S HOUSE

By Gurinder CHADHA

CDC UNITED NETWORK - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, Latin America

Historical - Completed 2016

The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Historical, Romance, Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 106 mn
- Director(s)
- Gurinder CHADHA
- Cast
- Gillian ANDERSON, Hugh BONNEVILLE, Michael GAMBON
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-3D24-0000-T-0000-0000-O
- Synopsis
- Viceroy's House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The film's story unfolds within that great house. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite - Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi - converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day.