Description
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Title
1947 EARTH -
Actors
Aamir Khan,Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna,Kitu Gidwani,Gulshan Grover -
Category
DVDs - Movies -
Director
Deepa Mehta -
Music Director
A.R.Rahman -
Manufacturer
Shemaroo -
Purchase Price
$9.99 -
Rent Price
$1.00 -
DVD Rent Length
Weekly -
Language
Hindi -
Release Date
07-07-1999 -
Sub Titles
English -
Video Format
Ntsc -
Sounds
Dolby Digital 5.1
This story revolves around a few families of diverse religious backgrounds, namely, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Parsi, located in Lahore, British India. While the Parsi family, a known minority in present day India, are prosperous, the rest of the families are shown as struggling to make a livelihood. Things change for the worse during 1947, the time the British decide to grant independence to India, and that's when law and order break down, and chaos, anarchy, and destruction take over, resulting in millions of deaths, and millions more rendered homeless and destitute. In this particular instance, Shanta is a Hindu maid with the Sethna (Parsi) family, who is in love with Hassan, a Muslim, while Dil Navaz loves Shanta, and wants her to be his wife, she prefers Hassan over him. This decision will have disastrous effects on everyone concerned, including the ones involved in smuggling Hindus across the border into India.