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Dir: Vic Sarin.
Cast: Jimi Mistry, Neve Campbell, Kristin Kreuk, John Light, Irrfan Khan, Madhur Jaffrey
Description: Love story set against the turbulent backdrop of the end of British rule in India and the subsequence separation of Pakistan in 1949. Gian Singh, a sensitive young Sikh fighting in the British Indian Army, resigns his position when the bloodshed becomes too much to bear. Hoping to leave nightmares of the war far behind, Gian unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of a new conflict when he discovers 17-year-old Muslim girl Naseem Khan hiding in the forest, after her family is attacked en route to Pakistan. Gian shelters the frightened girl, incurring the wrath of his friends and neighbours who cannot understand his willingness to associate with an opposing faith.
Country: CAN/S AFRICA/UK. 2007. 116mins
Well-acted: there are strong performances in Partition
Vic Sarin, the director of this film about the love between a Sikh (Jimi Mistry) and a Muslim (Kristin Kreuk) during the bloodbath that followed the Partition of 1947, is a veteran cinematographer. So his often moving film is good to look at despite being mostly shot in British Columbia. It is also well-acted, with Irfan Khan particularly good as the Sikh’s doubting friend.
What it lacks is the passion and scope of MS Sathyu’s classic Garam Hawa or the intellectual rigour of Ken McMullen’s Partition. It is, however, far less rubbishy than the Bollywood epic which took up roughly the same story and was a triumph at the Indian box-office.
The film relates the awful nature of religious bigotry with some telling sequences but doesn’t say much about the political mistake which Gandhi in the end so regretted. It is, however, watchable throughout as a document about the individual human tragedies that the advent of Partition threw up.
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