Plot
New Dehli, India, March 1947. The huge and stately Viceroy's Palace is like a beehive. Its five hundred employees are busy preparing the coming of Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), who has just been appointed new (and last) Viceroy of India by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Mountbatten, whose difficult task consists of overseeing the transition of British India to independence, arrives at the Palace, accompanied by Edwina (Gillian Anderson), his liberal-minded wife and Pamela (Lily Travers), his eighteen-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, in the staff quarters, a love story is born between Jeet Kumar (Manish Dayal), a Hindu, and Aalia Noor (Huma Qureshi), a Muslim beauty. Things will prove to be difficult, not to say very difficult, on the geopolitical and personal level.
Written by
Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Moira Buffini
Directed by
Gurinder Chadha
Crew
Production Countries
United Kingdom, India
Production Companies
BFI, Ingenious, Deepak Nayar Productions, Anguille Productions, Filmgate, Bend It Films, Reliance Entertainment, BBC Films, India Take One Productions, Pathé Productions
Languages
English
Awards
1 win