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TITLE Earth (1998)

ALT__TITLE 1947: Earth

DISABILITY Polio

COUNTRY India/Canada

LENGTH 110

GENRE Historical drama

DIRECTOR Deepa Mehta

CAST Maia Sethna

Nandita Das

NOTES Set in Lahore, then in India in 1947 just before partition which created Pakistan. While some of the film depicts the bloody battles which led to more than a million people being killed there is more time given to the romance between an Indian woman and a Moslem man. The whole is seen through the eyes of an eight year old girl who has polio and wears leg braces. (Apparently she represents the film's director).



From the novel Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa

 


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