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Let's be realistic.

i must have seen a different film!!

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A history lesson but a good one. Gurinder Chada's "Viceroy's House" is about the British withdrawl from India and the eventual partition of the country and it's a highly intelligent picture, full of good talk. In order to sell it to a wider market there's a 'Romeo and Juliet' style love story between two young Indians that makes up a fairly substantial subplot though it is the divisions that exist between the Hindu and Muslim staff that provides the film's real interest.Cast as Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Hugh Bonneville brings more than a touch of Downton Abbey to the Viceroy's House though Gillian Anderson is outstanding as Lady Edwina while the entire supporting cast deserve kudos. Hardly likely to set the multiplexes alight on a Saturday night this is still well worth seeking out.

I have read many books and seen the events of 1947 first hand. But Gurinder Chadha brings new facts about Churchill and Partitioned Map of India drawn in 1945. Hasting Ismay role in giving secret files to Radcliffe was unknown to me.Also Mounbatten finding out the 1945 Files was something I did not know. Thanks to Prince Charles for guiding Gurinder Chadha and great job done where she put her SOUL into this movie. I saw it last night on rented DVD thru Netflix.

they are just showing the one sided picture and did not mentioned anywhere the affairs of Nehru and lady Mountbatten and the other genuine things that influenced the whole scenario, it would have been more enjoyable and balanced with all of those missing facts. Otherwise it's just a good watch not a movie to learn a history from.

The film is beautifully acted and a good sub-plot revolving around staff in the viceroy's house. However, the central conceit of the movie is complete rubbish (plot spoiler averted)...The film, unwittingly or deliberately, robs the Indians and Pakistanis of any agency in their own fate when, in fact, I-Congress and Jinnah made nearly all the running on what happened at partition. The potential for terrible violence between the two main religious communities was always present in India and not a cunning ruse by the imperial government or the Mughals before them. Less painful to blame third parties...Anyway, the history aside this is a very well put together movie. It would have got 9 stars if it had not played so fast and loose with the truth, which matters if we are to deal with the hurts of the world.