Earth (1998)

Directors

Deepa Mehta

Cast

Aamir Khan, Arif Zakaria, Bapsi Sidhwa, Eric Peterson, Gulshan Grover, Javed Jaffrey, Kitu Gidwani, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Pavan Malhotra, Raghubir Yadav, Rahul Khanna, Rahul Ram, Rajendra Kumar, Shabana Azmi

The story

The story is set in Lahore (now the capital of Pakistani Punjab) in the period directly before and during the partition of India in 1947 at the time of Indian independence. A young girl with polio, Lenny, narrates the story through the voice of her adult self. She is from a wealthy Parsi family who hope to remain neutral to the rising tensions between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims in the area.

Genres

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