The film, "The Viceroy's House", is set in 1947. Lord Mountbatten (a cousin and uncle-in-law to Britain's current queen) was assigned to be Britain's last viceroy to India. In becoming free of Britain, India split into a smaller nation and Pakistan. In what struck me as grotesquely inadequate, a review in the NY Times described what subsequently happened as "birthing pains" (cf, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/movies/viceroys-house-review.html?nytmobile=0). A 2015 article in the New Yorker says that more than a million died, while another 15 million were displaced (cf, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple).
An article in the Guardian describes the movie as "fake history." Among other issues, the article indicates that the film largely exonerates Lord Mountbatten for Britain's role in the devastation (cf,
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/18/the-viceroys-house-version-of-indias-partition-brings-fake-history-to-screen).
An article in the Guardian describes the movie as "fake history." Among other issues, the article indicates that the film largely exonerates Lord Mountbatten for Britain's role in the devastation (cf,
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/18/the-viceroys-house-version-of-indias-partition-brings-fake-history-to-screen).
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