It will screen there on Sunday, February The film is set to release on March 3 in the UK and contains one of the finest international casts ever assembled in recent times. My film is an inspirational intensely personal true story about the traumatic events that took place at the end of the British Empire in India, events that tore my own family apart. The Festival gives us a brilliant opportunity to showcase my passion project to a global audience.
The film is released by Pathe internationally, except in India, where Reliance Entertainment will distribute. Thanks to them for the clipโฆ. IF WE WANT a better future for ourselves and our children, we must understand the past and not repeat its errors โ so it is with Partition that the general narrative must change. She has brought her heart and soul to this and it deserves to do well because its cause and purpose are stronger than any one individual.
In an interview with wwwasianculturevulture. She argues that the British have for too long put the blame for Partition at the door of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. This is not some airy-fairy, academic, indulgent posturing on her part. It is โ and feels โ politically urgent. At present the idea that people of different faiths, and differing nationalities and ethnicities can live together harmoniously is coming under attack. Her film is a powerful statement against the politics of division and she shows through the love story between the Hindu Jeet Manish Dayal and the Muslim Aalia Huma Qureshi that suspicion and fear are sometimes a graver enemy than the life we may want to pursue in search of dreams and happiness.
Churchill had floated plan to carve up India just after the war; Britain and America needed oil from the Middle East and Pakistan as a Muslim country would be friendly with the rich-oil Gulf states. She has said she would like British schoolchildren to be taught about colonial history โ there is very little, if anything of it, in the general curriculum in Britain today.
Her own family originated from what is now Pakistan and they made the fateful trek into India following Partition and then to East Africa, before settling in the UK. She lived through it. It was a time when young women would think nothing of committing suicide by jumping in a well to avoid being raped.
