Jinnah
Synopsis
Jinnah tells the dramatic story of the partition of India, the final intrigue and arguments between the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi and Nehru and the mercurial Lady Mountbatten. It takes the handsome young idealist Jinnah on the journey through which his dream of freeing the people of India from the burden and the insult of foreign rule is twisted and tempered by the realities and cruelties of politics. It is the story of a practical visionary who knew that on his word hung the future of a nation, who knew also that such a birth meant a division of a country and of his family, because his only daughter had married an Indian and would remain in India.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 110 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Jamil Dehlavi
- Producer
- Akbar Ahmed
- Executive Producer
- Akbar Ahmed
- Screenwriter
- Jamil Dehlavi, Akbar Ahmed
- Director of Photography
- Nic Knowland
- Composer
- Nigel Clarke, Michael Csanyi-Wills
- Principal cast
- Christopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitken, Shashi Kapoor, Richard Lintern, Shireen Shah
- Editors
- Robert Reitano, Paul Hodgson
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
The Film Company Contact: Professor Akbar Ahmed 25 Elizabeth Mews London NW3 4UH Tel: 44 20 7586 3686 Fax: 44 20 7586 3117 sales@highpoint-thefilmcompany.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akxq2hCThLw
Sales Company
As above
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