Viceroy's House

Produced in 2017

Film Information

Festival Edition 2017 - Edition 17

Section Panorama

Director Gurinder Chadha

Country United Kingdom - Kenya

Language English

Category Panorama 2017

Screenplay Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Moira Buffini

Cast Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi

Genre Historical Drama

Synopsis

Based on a true story of the final days of the British Empire in India, when Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy and is charged with handing India back to its people, living in a house with his family and 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 which led to the creation of a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan.