Viceroy's House DVD
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India After 300 years that rule was coming to an end For 6 months in 1947 Lord Mountbatten great grandson of Queen Victoria assumed the post of the last Viceroy charged with handing India back to its people The film’s story unfolds within that great House Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs lived their 500 Hindu Muslim and Sikh servants As the political elite - Nehru Jinnah and Gandhi - converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India conflict erupted A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland Pakistan It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day Actors Hugh Bonneville Gillian Anderson Lily Travers Michael Gambon Simon CallowDirectors Gurinder ChadhaWriters Gurinder Chadha Paul Mayeda Berges Moira BuffiniProducers Gurinder Chadha Paul Mayeda Berges Deepak NayarLanguage EnglishNumber of discs 1
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