Partition is a film by director Ken McMullen. The film is set in the turmoil surrounding the transfer of political power in British India from British to Indian hands and the Partition of the Indian subcontinent into the Dominion of Pakistan and the Republic of India in 1947. Made in 1987, the film was released on DVD in 2007. Its screening has been voted Time Out Critics' choice No 1 after 20 years.
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Plot
Lunatics in an asylum see the horror of India's partition with a lucidity that seems to escape the seemingly sane political players directing it on the outside.
Principal cast
Saeed Jaffrey
Zia Mohyeddin
Bhasker Patel
Roshan Seth
Zohra Sehgal
John Shrapnel
Tariq Yunus
Principal crew
Ken McMullen – Director
Lynn Horsford – Producer
Tariq Ali and Ken McMullen – Writers
Saadat Hassan Manto – Original story
Nanci Scheiesari – Cinematographer
Paul Cheetham – Production Designer
Music composed by Barrie Guard