Partition details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Bhasker Patel, Saeed Jaffrey, Shaheen Khan, Leonie Mellinger, Zia Mohyeddin, Zohra Sehgal |
| Director: | Ken McMullen |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | SECOND RUN |
| Name | Discs | |
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Partition |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 40 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 21 Jan 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Patition
By a customer from Ledbury , 15 Apr 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
Partition
On August 14th and 15th 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned on religious grounds, into a secular India and a Muslim Pakistan. This was followed by a translocation of 14 million people and appalling ethnic violence in which a million people were said to have been killed.
“Partition” condenses this into two basic scenarios, a map room with civil servants controlling the operation and a lunatic asylum, supplemented with a few talking heads. Both sets of characters were played by the same actors, the civil servant’s parts with insouciance and the lunatics with angst. It is not made clear what all the fuss is about: partition takes place off stage and is barely hinted at and the archive footage does not help (perhaps nothing relevant was available).
In short “Partition” is basically and art film and despite the superb camera work and exemplary acting, fails to do justice to the enormity of the subject. I had hoped for something more substantial!- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from Ledbury , 15 Apr 2008Partition
On August 14th and 15th 1947 the British Indian Empire was partitioned on religious grounds, into a secular India and a Muslim Pakistan. This was followed by a translocation of 14 million people and appalling ethnic violence in which a million people were said to have been killed.
“Partition” condenses this into two basic scenarios, a map room with civil servants controlling the operation and a lunatic asylum, supplemented with a few talking heads. Both sets of characters were played by the same actors, the civil servant’s parts with insouciance and the lunatics with angst. It is not made clear what all the fuss is about: partition takes place off stage and is barely hinted at and the archive footage does not help (perhaps nothing relevant was available).
In short “Partition” is basically and art film and despite the superb camera work and exemplary acting, fails to do justice to the enormity of the subject. I had hoped for something more substantial!- Was this review helpful to you?
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