
Partition: The Day India Burned
1 hour 30 minutes2007-01-01
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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
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
