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Oi! Jeet! What took you so long?
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This is what I imagine
England looks like.
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England is all slums
and bombsites.
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- You know why they're letting this go?
- No.
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The vvar has exhausted them.
They can't afford to keep us.
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Careful, she'll hear you.
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Queen Victoria, Empress of India.
She never even set a foot here.
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Now Mountbatten sahib can finally take
his great-grandmother back home.
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This is the new recruit, Jeet Kumar.
He's Punjabi, like me.
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From my village near Lahore.
I have known him since he was a boy.
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Very good, sir, very capable.
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It is a great honour
to be in Viceroy's House.
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I spoke with your last employer
on the telephone this morning.
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The Governor of Punjab expressed
his regret at losing you.
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You'll be working with |\/Ir Gupta
in the inner circle.
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We are responsible for the personal
care of the Viceroy.
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It is a position of great trust,
you understand?
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Yes, sir.
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A privilege.
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Mountbatten sahib is a heroic man.
He freed Burma.
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Indeed.
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Now he has come to free India.
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You think you Indians are ready
to run your own civil service?
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Courts of law?
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Your own armed forces?
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We've learnt from the best, sir.
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I have chosen you, not because of
your vast experience,
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but because The Honourable
Pamela Mountbatten is 18
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and might appreciate your youth.
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But what about my duties here?
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This is an honour I am giving you.
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Yes, ma'am.
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The men translate for statesmen while
we translate chitchat for English child.
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I hear she's friends with
Princess Elizabeth.
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Protocol - stand to attention
when they pass.
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Then she'll be looking clovvn
her long Mountbatten nose at...
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Oi, sala, move.
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Stop staring at them.
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Aalia?
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Sorry, miss. My friend is new.
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He doesn't know the protocol yet.
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Aalia, we're late.
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Wait, sala. Who is she?
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A Hindu boy like you
and a Muslim girl?
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I knew her father when he was in jail
in Lahore.
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You started out as a policeman?
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Yes, sir. I have been under-valet
for two years.
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Why did you leave yourjob?
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I was working in a jail, sir.
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Many of our leaders
were in prison there.
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I found myself unable
to turn keys, sir.
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And yet...
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you'd work for the British Viceroy?
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He will not be Viceroy for long, sir.
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Freedom is coming.
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Better to be close to power and watch
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than to agitate against it.
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Hovv else will we step in
when our time comes?
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What's that? Look, Mizzy.
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What can you see?
What can you see?
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That's more like it.
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Stop hogging the mirror, Daddy.
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You know, the Aussies called him
a beaut.
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And who can deny it?
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Churchill called this
the worst job in the world.
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Well, he's wrong.
Burma was the worst job in the world.
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You're giving a nation back
to its people. Hovv bad can it be?
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Churchill was wrong about Gandhi too.
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- What did he call him?
- A half-naked fakir.
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That's really rather rude.
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Yes, British Empire brought to
its knees by a man in a loin cloth.
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Poor Winston.
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He's walking around like a chap
who's swallowed a wasp.
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Well, he is part of the past, darling.
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You're bringing the future.
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We are.
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Well...
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Then let's not make a mess of it.
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Attention!
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Your Excellency.
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Not for much longer.
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Welcome. You know Lord lsmay,
Chief of Staff.
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- Pug, good to see you.
- Glad to be on the team.
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Welcome to the infernal heat, my dear.
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- Lady Wavell.
- Dickie.
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I must say, I think it's a little shabby,
the way WhitehaWs ousted you.
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- Sir? One photo, sir?
- I was always Churchill's man
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and now At|ee's Labour government
has swept the board.
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Lord Louis, what do you hope
to achieve?
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I have been given
a very specific task.
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I am to be the last Viceroy of India
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and I shall carry out the role
with great pride.
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Ah.
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Oh, this is quite something.
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Wonderful!
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This is the indoor staff.
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Good heavens!
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Fifty and something, I believe.
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On behalf of you all...
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I'd like to welcome the incoming
Viceroy and his family.
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I am sure that you will give them
the same good service
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that you have always given us.
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So?
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Who is he?
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My father was jailed for marching
with Gandhiji.
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My mother and I were not allowed
to visit him,
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but there was this young
Hindu policeman who helped us.
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He took letters, food, medicine
for my father.
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But your face when you saw him.
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I was... I was only surprised
to see him.
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- Stop making mischief.
- This solves a mystery, Aalia.
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Sunita, there's nothing between us.
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Nothing for you, maybe.
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I don't envy you, Dickie.
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I tried to solve it, but it's
operation madhouse, if you ask me.
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Thousands dead already.
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Thirty million Hindus and Sikhs
want a united India
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but many of the 100 million
Muslims do not.
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The Muslim minority don't want to be
part of India.
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They want their own country, Pakistan.
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There's such rancour between
the leaders now,
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it's nigh on impossible to get them
in the same room.
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Well, whatever their differences are,
all Indians have one thing in common.
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- What's that’?
- They can't wait to get rid of us.
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- |\/Ir Nehru, sir.
- Hm.
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|\/Ir Nehru and some of the other
leaders were kind enough
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to come and meet my plane.
I asked them all to eat with us.
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It seemed the least I could do.
I hope it's not inconvenient.
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- Excellency.
- Good afternoon.
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- Lord lsmay.
- Hello.
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My dear, dear Dickie.
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Panditji, thank you forjoining us.
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It is always a pleasure to be in the
Viceroy's house and not in his jails.
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You would not have needed
to be jailed
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had you not been trying to undermine
us as we fought the Nazis.
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We promised you help in return
for independence.
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Hovv could we fight Hitler
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when our own country was already
under foreign occupation?
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2.5 million of your fellow countrymen
found a way.
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- Those Indians volunteered.
- Indeed.
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You would not have won
without their sacrifice.
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You owe India a great debt.
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And Panditji owes Cambridge
a great debt
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for honing his debating skills.
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There are 34
reception rooms, 34 state rooms,
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ten private dining rooms, a cinema.
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Makes Buckingham Palace
look like a bungalow.
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I'm so hot,
I think I might actually die.
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Ma'am, here's the food for the dog.
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Would you take them onto the terrace?
It was such a long journey.
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It's just terribly, terribly hot.
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Ah, just there, please.
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What do we have here?
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I haven't seen chicken like this
since before rationing.
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Lady Sahib, if the food is incorrect,
we are very sorry. We will take it away.
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No, please, leave it.
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You don't think...
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Why not?
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Mm.
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The Order of the Garter,
vvorn singularly
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or together with the Order of the Star
of India, depending on the occasion.
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If I want to push the boat out,
then I will wear all four.
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Now to dressing.
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We're going to get this down to
a fine art.
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I never want to spend more than
two minutes dressing.
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Yes, Excellency.
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Not "Excellency" till after
the ceremony. "Sir" will do.
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Right. Socks, no suspenders.
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Braces, leave on the trousers.
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Have you seen that before?
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- Hm?
- No, sir.
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Hovv much time do we waste
buttoning trousers?
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One just steps into these and...
The vvhole of the Navy uses them now.
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This morning I'd say we're pulling out
all the stops.
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And...
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Duleep Singh, isn't it?
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Yes, sir.
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Lord Wavell speaks very highly of you.
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- Thank you, sir. Honour to serve.
- And...?
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Jeet Kumar, sir. From Punjab.
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He's the new boy.
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Well, Kumar, we have something
in common there.
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Now...
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Are we ready?
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Thirteen minutes.
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Hm.
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We'll do better ne> 00:15:40,278
l, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas,
Viscount Mountbatten of Burma,
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do swear true allegiance to our
Sovereign Lord, King George VI,
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Defender of the Faith,
Emperor of India,
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and I will faithfully fill the office
of Viceroy of India
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according to lavv.
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May God be my guide.
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Oi! Have you never seen gories
in fine dresses before?
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You may be new but you must know
your place.
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Oi, Mohsin bhai. Leave him be.
He's my friend.
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You Punjabis always look after
your ovvn.
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- You Bengalis...
- Hey! Don't talk like that.
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Get back to your places.
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This is not a normal
Viceroyalty on which I am embarking.
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I am under no illusion about
the difficulty of my task.
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I shall need the greatest goodwill
of the greatest possible number
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and I am asking India today
for that goodwill.
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Why don't you listen
to what he has to say?
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Because I've heard it all before.
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Ubba, maybe the Ivlountbattens
will be different.
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He is the King's cousin.
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He has empire in his blood.
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My husband's study
is the first priority.
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It has to be refurbished.
It needs light and brightness.
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He says it reeks
of failed negotiations.
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Consider it done, ma'am.
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I'll continue my tour after breakfast,
Miss Reading,
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but in the meantime,
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would you put your heads together
With the ADCs
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and rethink the guest lists?
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From now on almost half of all guests
at all occasions must be Indian.
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- Yes, ma'am.
- Also, I want to meet Indian women.
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Thank you.
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Sarojini Naidu, Pandit Nehru's sister,
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Mrs Aruna Ali Asif,
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur.
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- Have you got that, Miss Noor?
- Yes, ma'am.
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Here are the riders.
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I have a feeling, Pammy,
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that might be the only hour of the day
I get to spend with you.
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Each day is so crammed.
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Two poached eggs, tomatoes,
sausages, tea.
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Lots to do.
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Darling, did you know that 92%
of the population is illiterate?
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Good morning.
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And that one in five babies dies
before they're four months old?
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Edwina, I could not be blessed
with a more active, able wife,
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- but sometimes we have to accept...
- I know.
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what we cannot change.
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But we can change a lot, Dickie.
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We really can,
and we absolutely have to.
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India's problems are not just political.
They are social and economic.
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Almost half the babies born here
die before they're five.
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That cannot be the legacy the British
leave India after three centuries.
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We have enough time
to improve the infrastructure
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- so that when we leave...
- That is not why we're here.
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- Yes.
- You'll wear yourself out.
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You mean I'll wear you out.
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No...
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Edwina, I have the governors
arriving from the provinces.
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I know. I'm entertaining their wives.
247
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And I'm very grateful
for everything you do.
248
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Miss Hudson, is there something
the matter?
249
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Nothing at all, ma'am, only I do wish
they wouldn't come so close.
250
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Perhaps your very able gifts
would be better used in Surrey.
251
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I beg your pardon, ma'am?
252
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Would you please pack your bags
and go home?
253
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Have you got the papers? I'll need
them for the meeting after this one.
254
00:19:56,162 --> 00:19:57,072
Yes, ma'am.
255
00:20:02,501 --> 00:20:03,605
Miss Noor?
256
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I have a message for you, from home.
257
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Go on.
258
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I had to see you.
259
00:20:17,249 --> 00:20:18,523
Hovv is your father?
260
00:20:19,251 --> 00:20:22,755
Jeet, what are you doing?
Nothing has changed.
261
00:20:23,022 --> 00:20:25,059
I see you are still unmarried.
262
00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:27,537
I am still promised to another.
263
00:20:32,798 --> 00:20:36,507
I have tried every day for the past
two years to forget you.
264
00:20:37,703 --> 00:20:39,148
Then try harder.
265
00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:15,313
The violence is escalating
day by day.
266
00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:20,282
This hatred between Hindu, Sikh
and Muslim
267
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is poisoning everything we've built.
268
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In Bengal the violence is
compounded by a famine
269
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which the people think we are doing
precious little to relieve.
270
00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:33,695
The sooner we can hand over
to an Indian government...
271
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the better.
272
00:21:36,128 --> 00:21:37,505
But what government?
273
00:21:37,563 --> 00:21:41,033
These wretched Indian leaders
won't agree.
274
00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:43,774
If the Muslims are
denied their Pakistan
275
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my province will
have all-out civil war.
276
00:21:47,339 --> 00:21:48,750
The same in the Punjab.
277
00:21:48,808 --> 00:21:51,789
The Hindus won't tolerate a Pakistan
they haven't voted for.
278
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:54,115
Oh, God! Gentlemen...
279
00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:56,782
Our saviour is here.
280
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He walks among us.
281
00:21:58,517 --> 00:22:00,190
Off the record, Pug,
282
00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:02,994
we're not sure Dickie Ivlountbattews
the man for this job.
283
00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:08,129
Look, he has amazing ability
to get along with people.
284
00:22:08,194 --> 00:22:11,767
But these Indians are as slippery
as eels.
285
00:22:12,031 --> 00:22:15,501
The Indians have to believe
286
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that whatever the future of India is,
287
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it is their idea.
288
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:22,685
And trust me,
289
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if anyone can get them to agree,
290
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,085
it's Dickie.
291
00:22:27,379 --> 00:22:31,327
He could charm a vulture off a corpse.
292
00:22:31,383 --> 00:22:34,592
Nothing will stop
the violence now, Pug.
293
00:22:35,054 --> 00:22:37,034
It's already far too late.
294
00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:41,231
And if Mountbatten thinks charm
alone can do it, then he's a fool.
295
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:42,664
Thank you for your candour.
296
00:22:42,728 --> 00:22:46,369
- Your Excellency...
- I know hovv grave the situation is.
297
00:22:46,432 --> 00:22:49,572
I'm meeting the leaders
and all the maharajas,
298
00:22:49,635 --> 00:22:50,409
who of course have their own fears
299
00:22:50,436 --> 00:22:52,074
about what a transfer of power
will bring.
300
00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:54,281
There is a great deal to do.
301
00:22:54,340 --> 00:22:56,115
I want to hear from all of you.
302
00:23:04,583 --> 00:23:08,463
The growing conflict between Moslem
and Hindu
303
00:23:08,521 --> 00:23:11,434
has left 40,000 dead.
304
00:23:11,557 --> 00:23:14,504
The new Viceroy arrives in India
305
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,666
amid scenes of terrible death
and destruction.
306
00:23:18,364 --> 00:23:20,366
It would be a disgrace
307
00:23:20,432 --> 00:23:25,279
and an everlasting slur on Britain's
standing in the world
308
00:23:25,337 --> 00:23:32,312
if we were to abandon 400 million
primitive Indians to their fate.
309
00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:38,357
Do it nicely.
310
00:23:40,185 --> 00:23:43,098
You have to cut neatly.
It has to be neat.
311
00:23:43,155 --> 00:23:44,634
They all have to be the same size.
312
00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:48,297
This is most irregular.
The staff will not understand.
313
00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:51,298
I want them to know who we are.
314
00:23:57,803 --> 00:24:00,750
Lady Mountbatten.
315
00:24:00,973 --> 00:24:03,112
Your Excellency.
316
00:24:05,244 --> 00:24:05,745
Aap door!
317
00:24:06,011 --> 00:24:07,388
Get the chickens from the oven now!
318
00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:12,191
Our head English chef left us rather
unexpectedly with Lord Wavell.
319
00:24:12,217 --> 00:24:15,289
We are awaiting his replacement
from England.
320
00:24:15,354 --> 00:24:21,396
Meanwhile, may I present
our acting head chef, Ram Lal Chandra,
321
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:28,073
He has been fully trained
in the finest European cuisine
322
00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:30,740
and should meet your requirements
sufficiently.
323
00:24:31,103 --> 00:24:35,483
I do believe we can save the new
English chef the journey.
324
00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:39,682
|\/Ir Chandra will do
a perfectly good job.
325
00:24:40,245 --> 00:24:45,251
That wonderful dinner you served last
night put Claridges to shame.
326
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:50,229
Lady Sahib, the credit must also
go to my staff
327
00:24:50,289 --> 00:24:54,169
and my sous-chef, Jinnah Abdul Ivlalik.
328
00:24:54,627 --> 00:24:57,335
He prepares a most excellent
Lamb Wellington
329
00:24:57,396 --> 00:25:00,206
and bread and butter pudding
with the finest marmalade.
330
00:25:00,265 --> 00:25:05,078
That's all well and good, but with
your agreement, Chef Chandra,
331
00:25:05,137 --> 00:25:07,344
I'd like to make a few changes.
332
00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:14,048
From now on there'|| be more Indians
of all faiths round our table.
333
00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:17,083
Their culinary needs
must be waited for.
334
00:25:18,217 --> 00:25:21,289
Many of them eat with their fingers,
Your Excellency.
335
00:25:21,353 --> 00:25:24,061
If that is custom, then it's perfectly
acceptable.
336
00:25:24,123 --> 00:25:28,538
Lady Sahib, many Indians are
vegetarians.
337
00:25:28,594 --> 00:25:32,064
No mutton, no chicken, no game.
338
00:25:36,302 --> 00:25:38,248
ls there something wrong?
339
00:25:38,604 --> 00:25:40,743
What he was saying...
340
00:25:41,006 --> 00:25:42,508
Your Excellency.
341
00:25:45,277 --> 00:25:49,123
It is so fine that you want
to be more inclusive.
342
00:25:49,415 --> 00:25:52,225
We have waited a
long time for this day.
343
00:25:53,185 --> 00:25:56,428
I appreciate your understanding.
344
00:25:56,488 --> 00:25:57,592
And your skill.
345
00:26:00,592 --> 00:26:02,128
I need to meet with
the governors‘ wives.
346
00:26:02,194 --> 00:26:05,038
What kind of an example
are you setting, Abdul bir?
347
00:26:05,064 --> 00:26:06,475
Yard.
348
00:26:06,532 --> 00:26:09,103
- Z for...?
- Zebra!
349
00:26:09,168 --> 00:26:11,273
I wish I could communicate with them.
350
00:26:11,336 --> 00:26:15,307
Why don't you try this?
351
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,151
No Viceroy or members of his family
352
00:26:23,215 --> 00:26:26,219
have ever visited the staff
compound before.
353
00:26:26,285 --> 00:26:28,595
The houses look small
for an entire family.
354
00:26:29,989 --> 00:26:31,332
Where do you live here, Aalia?
355
00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:34,098
I live right there with my father.
356
00:26:34,159 --> 00:26:35,297
Did you go to the school?
357
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,135
No, I grew up in Amritsar.
358
00:26:37,196 --> 00:26:38,732
I went to a ladies‘ college.
359
00:26:39,732 --> 00:26:43,202
And then events turned unfortunate.
360
00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:45,441
My father lost his eyesight and...
361
00:26:45,504 --> 00:26:47,108
and now I work.
362
00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:48,480
That must be very hard.
363
00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:52,044
Not at all. My work gives me
independence.
364
00:26:52,544 --> 00:26:54,217
That's what my mother says.
365
00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:57,283
She says she didn't know who she was
until she started working
366
00:26:57,349 --> 00:26:59,329
and really she's tireless.
367
00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:01,557
I hardly saw her during the war.
She was so busy.
368
00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:42,569
Welcome, Jeet, to my son's
engagement party.
369
00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:44,335
You know of course my son, Sanjit.
370
00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:45,773
Of course. Welcome here.
371
00:27:46,031 --> 00:27:49,501
Have you met this wonderful girl
who is going to be his wife, Sunita?
372
00:27:49,568 --> 00:27:53,072
No, we have not formally met yet,
but I am delighted.
373
00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:55,608
- Congratulations to you both.
- Thank you.
374
00:27:57,443 --> 00:27:58,683
Hello, sir.
375
00:27:59,378 --> 00:28:02,450
I hope you will remember me.
I am Jeet Kumar.
376
00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:06,222
Ah, Jeet Kumar.
377
00:28:06,285 --> 00:28:07,992
The little policeman.
378
00:28:09,721 --> 00:28:12,099
Barely old enough to tie his shoes.
379
00:28:12,157 --> 00:28:14,296
- Ha, ha! Yes, sir.
- Sit, sit.
380
00:28:15,193 --> 00:28:17,503
It's good to meet you again,
Jeet Kumar.
381
00:28:17,563 --> 00:28:21,340
Remember, you used to read me
Dickens?
382
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,404
Yes, sir. David Copperfield,
383
00:28:24,503 --> 00:28:26,107
Bleak House.
384
00:28:26,171 --> 00:28:28,072
What brings you to Delhi?
385
00:28:28,073 --> 00:28:30,451
I have great expectations.
386
00:28:33,445 --> 00:28:35,652
I am working for Mountbatten sahib.
387
00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:41,725
Aalia, I thought you'd never get here.
388
00:28:41,987 --> 00:28:43,489
I was with Lady Pamela.
389
00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:46,126
- What's she like?
- Full of questions.
390
00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:48,068
She's actually interested in us.
391
00:28:48,093 --> 00:28:50,095
She wants to be involved
and improve the school.
392
00:28:50,162 --> 00:28:52,665
Aren't you married yet?
393
00:28:53,131 --> 00:28:57,546
That girl you used to talk
to me about, did she change her mind?
394
00:28:58,604 --> 00:28:59,639
No, sir...
395
00:29:01,006 --> 00:29:02,508
but I live in hope.
396
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:04,178
Ah.
397
00:29:04,343 --> 00:29:06,380
- Ubba.
- Ah, Aalia.
398
00:29:06,478 --> 00:29:08,287
Do you remember Jeet Kumar?
399
00:29:09,248 --> 00:29:10,124
Yes, Ubba.
400
00:29:10,182 --> 00:29:12,389
My daughter too is still unmarried
401
00:29:12,618 --> 00:29:16,259
but her young man, Asif,
will soon be back.
402
00:29:16,388 --> 00:29:20,097
He has been in Europe all this time,
fighting in the British army.
403
00:29:20,626 --> 00:29:23,539
As soon as he returns
we will have the wedding.
404
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:26,269
This is Aa|ia's poor mother's
dying wish.
405
00:29:27,332 --> 00:29:28,640
She chose you a good man.
406
00:29:28,967 --> 00:29:32,073
- Don't you think, Aalia?
- Yes, Ubba.
407
00:29:32,537 --> 00:29:35,143
We must go now. It's late. Come.
408
00:29:35,207 --> 00:29:38,677
Come, my friend. I'll walk you home.
409
00:29:38,744 --> 00:29:41,247
You stay, celebrate with your friend.
410
00:29:42,047 --> 00:29:45,324
- Good night, sir.
- Good night, Jeet Kumar.
411
00:29:47,152 --> 00:29:48,688
Jeet?
412
00:29:49,721 --> 00:29:52,429
That prison took away my sight.
413
00:29:53,392 --> 00:29:56,202
It could have taken
away my dignity too.
414
00:29:56,662 --> 00:29:59,370
You made sure it did not.
415
00:30:01,333 --> 00:30:03,006
I'm grateful.
416
00:30:07,339 --> 00:30:11,151
I'll always be grateful
for your care for my father.
417
00:30:12,077 --> 00:30:13,715
There you are! Come on.
418
00:30:13,779 --> 00:30:16,350
Let's show them hovv we do things
in Punjab.
419
00:30:43,542 --> 00:30:45,351
What harm is in a dance?
420
00:30:48,413 --> 00:30:51,792
Oi, sala. She doesn't want to dance.
421
00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,757
Watch what you're doing.
422
00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:58,594
He wasn't doing anything. It's fine.
423
00:30:58,657 --> 00:31:01,103
You dance with your own kind.
424
00:31:01,126 --> 00:31:03,072
- My own kind?
- Calm down.
425
00:31:03,428 --> 00:31:06,409
Have some respect.
426
00:31:06,598 --> 00:31:09,238
Since when does a Ivlussalman
tell us what to do?
427
00:31:13,705 --> 00:31:15,514
Come, come, come.
428
00:31:15,574 --> 00:31:17,212
Shake now.
429
00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:20,222
Musicians, please...
430
00:31:53,812 --> 00:31:55,792
It's three o'clock in the morning.
431
00:31:57,215 --> 00:31:58,319
Come to bed.
432
00:31:59,184 --> 00:32:01,186
Your family tree can wait.
433
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,631
Edwina, I wasn't...
434
00:32:03,989 --> 00:32:06,162
I'm reading the governors‘ reports.
435
00:32:07,526 --> 00:32:09,267
Very unpleasant.
436
00:32:09,328 --> 00:32:11,205
I fear a migraine looms.
437
00:32:12,064 --> 00:32:15,204
- Did you take one of your pills?
- They are not working.
438
00:32:15,267 --> 00:32:18,009
Nothing works. It's just...
439
00:32:21,106 --> 00:32:23,586
Jenkins‘ report on
Punjab is the worst.
440
00:32:26,611 --> 00:32:29,421
The more I discover here, the more...
441
00:32:30,015 --> 00:32:31,221
depressing it is.
442
00:32:31,249 --> 00:32:35,197
The real lesson of the day is that
our time frame for e> 00:32:37,164
We have to act more quickly
than I thought.
444
00:32:37,355 --> 00:32:38,390
Dickie...
445
00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:40,692
this needs time.
446
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:43,535
The longer we stay, the more we risk
further violence.
447
00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:46,269
We haven't the means or the manpower
to keep the peace.
448
00:32:46,331 --> 00:32:48,311
Don't rush.
449
00:32:49,201 --> 00:32:50,544
Seriously.
450
00:32:51,169 --> 00:32:53,410
This is why you're terrible at chess.
451
00:32:57,376 --> 00:32:59,583
Pug believes that
Pakistan is inevitable.
452
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:03,490
He thinks I should meet Jinnah first
to understand why.
453
00:33:05,150 --> 00:33:09,189
Nehru has offered you
a very precious thing.
454
00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:11,361
Friendship.
455
00:33:12,758 --> 00:33:14,362
Why don't you talk with him first?
456
00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:18,437
Novv, we want to find
the best possible solution.
457
00:33:18,563 --> 00:33:22,033
Congress will not contemplate
dividing our Mother India.
458
00:33:22,467 --> 00:33:25,778
It would make a mockery of everything
that we have striven for
459
00:33:26,137 --> 00:33:29,084
and it would break GandhijFs heart.
460
00:33:29,107 --> 00:33:31,348
Then hovv are we to keep the peace?
461
00:33:31,409 --> 00:33:34,151
You want us to quit India,
but hovv can we leave
462
00:33:34,212 --> 00:33:37,125
when you can't agree on what
your future should be?
463
00:33:37,182 --> 00:33:39,788
Are you blaming us
for the situation here?
464
00:33:40,051 --> 00:33:44,295
I'm not blaming anyone, but at
all costs we must avoid a civil war.
465
00:33:44,422 --> 00:33:48,234
Forgive me, but this is the result of
British policy.
466
00:33:49,061 --> 00:33:51,200
You have done everything
467
00:33:51,263 --> 00:33:54,142
to foster hatred between
our different communities.
468
00:33:54,199 --> 00:33:58,375
Separate schools,
textbooks, elections.
469
00:33:58,570 --> 00:34:01,210
That was always your policy,
470
00:34:01,273 --> 00:34:04,083
divide and rule.
471
00:34:04,142 --> 00:34:08,454
So now you have divided us,
you ask me for a solution.
472
00:34:09,648 --> 00:34:11,685
"Without peace,
473
00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:14,162
"all other dreams vanish
474
00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:16,426
"and are reduced to ashes."
475
00:34:19,157 --> 00:34:21,034
You went on to say
476
00:34:21,093 --> 00:34:26,771
that the only alternative
to co-e> 00:34:32,612
But I'm really only here to ask you
to pass on a message.
478
00:34:32,671 --> 00:34:36,585
Your sister very kindly offered
to show me round Congress.
479
00:34:36,641 --> 00:34:39,781
Please, would you tell her
I'd be honoured to accept?
480
00:34:40,445 --> 00:34:42,015
Gladly.
481
00:34:49,287 --> 00:34:52,530
Your wife is very well read.
482
00:34:53,225 --> 00:34:54,260
Yes.
483
00:34:54,326 --> 00:34:58,741
The irony is, of course, that she's far
more of a political animal than I am.
484
00:34:58,797 --> 00:35:02,074
She's an idealist,
tends to the left. I'm...
485
00:35:02,133 --> 00:35:03,305
more of a military man.
486
00:35:04,703 --> 00:35:06,614
What are your orders here?
487
00:35:07,339 --> 00:35:12,482
To bring independence to India
as smoothly as is possible.
488
00:35:13,144 --> 00:35:15,988
But what is that India?
What Will it be?
489
00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:19,019
India is her people,
490
00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:21,697
individual men and women
491
00:35:21,753 --> 00:35:24,734
held together by indivisible threads.
492
00:35:24,990 --> 00:35:27,402
Our spirit can never be beaten.
493
00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:32,369
Through all the years of your empire,
it has only grown stronger.
494
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:34,371
We belong together, in a secular...
495
00:35:36,234 --> 00:35:38,145
This is what our fathers fought for.
496
00:35:39,671 --> 00:35:42,515
I'm so happy that we're here
to witness it.
497
00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:46,713
What is the first thing
you'll do when India becomes free?
498
00:35:47,779 --> 00:35:51,750
I'm going to climb to the top of
the dome of Viceroy's House
499
00:35:52,017 --> 00:35:53,519
and scream for joy.
500
00:35:53,785 --> 00:35:55,059
And you?
501
00:35:58,123 --> 00:35:59,796
I'm going to marry you.
502
00:36:02,994 --> 00:36:04,496
Hovv can that ever happen?
503
00:36:05,497 --> 00:36:07,204
YOU are SO COUFGQGOUS.
504
00:36:08,567 --> 00:36:11,207
You are the bravest woman I know.
505
00:36:12,637 --> 00:36:14,548
Don't run from what is true.
506
00:36:18,376 --> 00:36:20,754
What do you personally think?
507
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,162
To divide India would be a tragedy.
508
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,567
Then please, talk to Jinnah.
509
00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:36,770
This is quite a new sensation.
510
00:36:37,362 --> 00:36:38,466
What is?
511
00:36:38,530 --> 00:36:40,669
Trusting the Viceroy.
512
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:47,106
I've spent nine years of my life
in British jails,
513
00:36:47,372 --> 00:36:49,545
but I believe in
your sincerity, Dickie,
514
00:36:50,575 --> 00:36:53,283
and I believe that
you love my country.
515
00:36:54,679 --> 00:36:57,683
Don't let Jinnah persuade you
to tear it in two.
516
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:34,588
Ubba?
517
00:37:34,653 --> 00:37:36,326
I have brought someone to see you.
518
00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:39,096
Aalia, where have you been?
519
00:37:39,224 --> 00:37:42,398
Ubba, here is Jeet Kumar.
520
00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:44,263
- Hello, sir.
- Hello.
521
00:37:44,329 --> 00:37:46,275
We have something important
to speak...
522
00:37:46,331 --> 00:37:47,605
Later, later.
523
00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:50,237
You will never guess who is here.
524
00:37:53,705 --> 00:37:55,013
Aalia.
525
00:37:55,073 --> 00:37:56,711
- Asif?
- As-Salaam-Alaikum.
526
00:37:57,575 --> 00:37:59,577
VVa-Alaikum-Salaam.
527
00:38:02,347 --> 00:38:05,487
I was so worried that you wouldn't
recognise me.
528
00:38:05,550 --> 00:38:07,461
It's been too long.
529
00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,999
I thought the British Army
would never let us leave.
530
00:38:10,688 --> 00:38:13,328
We were the last regiment
to be demobbed.
531
00:38:13,959 --> 00:38:15,996
Finally I feel the vvar is over.
532
00:38:16,061 --> 00:38:20,635
Asif, this is Jeet Kumar,
my old friend from Lahore.
533
00:38:21,466 --> 00:38:24,572
Aalia, can you believe, Asif's working
with Jinnah sahib?
534
00:38:24,636 --> 00:38:26,240
Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
535
00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:28,341
Only as his driver and aide.
536
00:38:29,441 --> 00:38:31,512
I'm aiming to serve him however I can.
537
00:38:31,576 --> 00:38:34,455
Asif, tell |\/Ir Jinnah,
538
00:38:34,512 --> 00:38:37,049
many Muslims also fought for India.
539
00:38:37,082 --> 00:38:39,153
We don't want a separate country.
540
00:38:39,217 --> 00:38:44,496
- Jinnah sahib is a visionary, sir.
- He is a troublemaker.
541
00:38:44,556 --> 00:38:46,763
He's the only one
speaking for us.
542
00:38:57,368 --> 00:39:00,042
- |\/Ir Jinnah...
- |\/Ir Jinnah...
543
00:39:00,104 --> 00:39:02,550
Spokesman for a large group of
India's Ivlohammedans
544
00:39:02,607 --> 00:39:07,022
is the leader of the All-India Muslim
League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
545
00:39:07,078 --> 00:39:09,456
In direct conflict with the Congress
party's request
546
00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:11,050
for national independence...
547
00:39:11,082 --> 00:39:13,255
Pakistan Zindabad!
548
00:39:13,318 --> 00:39:17,095
he has demanded that Britain create
a separate and independent state
549
00:39:17,155 --> 00:39:21,069
out of those provinces in which
Muslims predominate.
550
00:39:22,727 --> 00:39:24,468
We are also looking
to the future.
551
00:39:24,529 --> 00:39:28,341
I learned this when I visited
the ancient spires of Cambridge.
552
00:39:28,399 --> 00:39:31,744
Oh, yes, a haven for historians.
553
00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:34,211
Cambridge also creates visionaries.
554
00:39:34,272 --> 00:39:36,183
Such as your old friend |\/Ir Nehru.
555
00:39:36,241 --> 00:39:41,088
A little after |\/Ir Nehru's time,
in 1933, a group of Cambridge students
556
00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:45,322
came up with a truly magnificent
original idea.
557
00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:46,987
And what was that?
558
00:39:47,052 --> 00:39:48,497
Pakistan.
559
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,124
The land of the pure.
560
00:39:52,157 --> 00:39:53,534
Muslims do not want to be reduced
561
00:39:53,591 --> 00:39:56,697
to the unequal position of negroes
in America.
562
00:39:56,761 --> 00:40:00,208
I assure you Muslims would never be
treated as second-class citizens.
563
00:40:00,265 --> 00:40:03,269
But we are a minority of one to four.
Hovv can you guarantee that?
564
00:40:03,334 --> 00:40:05,336
If you engage with the other leaders,
565
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:09,078
constitutional protection for
Muslim citizens can be secured.
566
00:40:09,107 --> 00:40:13,055
It is the other leaders who refuse
to engage with me.
567
00:40:14,312 --> 00:40:16,656
I already have the solution.
568
00:40:16,714 --> 00:40:20,287
The creation of an Islamic country,
Pakistan.
569
00:40:27,292 --> 00:40:31,331
Could you really
see India cut in half?
570
00:40:31,629 --> 00:40:35,577
Sometimes surgery can save
the patient.
571
00:40:36,768 --> 00:40:39,681
Where do you propose
to make the incision?
572
00:40:40,104 --> 00:40:43,142
Pakistan will include all the states
that have a Muslim majority.
573
00:40:43,174 --> 00:40:46,121
But what about those states
where the numbers are equal?
574
00:40:46,177 --> 00:40:48,214
The Punjab, Bengal,
what do we do there?
575
00:40:48,279 --> 00:40:50,555
Include them in Pakistan.
576
00:40:50,615 --> 00:40:54,825
The ideals of Islam have taught us
democracy and justice.
577
00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:58,193
Our Hindu and Sikh citizens will be
able to worship
578
00:40:58,256 --> 00:41:00,236
and to vote as they please,
579
00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:03,333
but we Muslims will be protected.
580
00:41:03,394 --> 00:41:05,465
We will be in a majority.
581
00:41:06,331 --> 00:41:08,743
Perhaps there was a time when
I believed
582
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,140
our interests could be secured
within a united India,
583
00:41:13,037 --> 00:41:15,142
but that was long ago.
584
00:41:16,341 --> 00:41:20,221
Nehru and Gandhi have shown
no respect for me or my views,
585
00:41:20,278 --> 00:41:23,418
so hovv can I trust them to respect
the views of my fellow Muslims?
586
00:41:26,117 --> 00:41:29,291
Look at this branch of my family tree.
587
00:41:29,454 --> 00:41:32,298
See hovv it withers with
no new shoots.
588
00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:34,629
That's my Uncle Nicholas.
589
00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:37,037
He was Tsar of Russia.
590
00:41:37,128 --> 00:41:42,339
He and his entire family and staff
bayoneted, set on fire,
591
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,279
in order to create someones utopia.
592
00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,612
New nations are rarely born in peace.
593
00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:52,382
But to yoke Hindus and Muslims
together in one unequal state
594
00:41:52,443 --> 00:41:55,447
is a recipe for the very bloodshed
you want to avoid.
595
00:41:55,513 --> 00:41:56,787
United...
596
00:41:58,049 --> 00:42:01,121
you are one fifth of
the world's population.
597
00:42:01,486 --> 00:42:05,161
India would be the greatest power
in all Asia.
598
00:42:05,323 --> 00:42:07,701
India has never been a true nation.
599
00:42:08,126 --> 00:42:10,106
It only looks that way on a map.
600
00:42:10,495 --> 00:42:14,102
The British divided Ireland
to maintain peace.
601
00:42:15,199 --> 00:42:17,179
They are dividing Palestine.
602
00:42:18,036 --> 00:42:20,380
They must do the same here.
603
00:42:20,438 --> 00:42:22,384
I have heard with my own ears.
604
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,649
Jinnah sahib said he will cut India
in half.
605
00:42:26,778 --> 00:42:28,587
- He will give us Pakistan.
- Yes.
606
00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:30,626
No, no, no, no, no.
That cannot happen.
607
00:42:30,682 --> 00:42:34,186
- Why can't it happen?
- Gandhiji said over his dead body.
608
00:42:34,252 --> 00:42:35,629
He would not lie.
609
00:42:36,487 --> 00:42:38,296
Pakistan Zindabad.
610
00:42:38,356 --> 00:42:42,566
- Pakistan Zindabad.
- Stop! Stop!
611
00:42:42,627 --> 00:42:45,403
Stop, brothers!
612
00:42:45,463 --> 00:42:47,465
Stop, brothers! Stop!
613
00:42:48,132 --> 00:42:51,545
The British have controlled India
this past 300 years
614
00:42:51,602 --> 00:42:54,412
by making sure we fight amongst
ourselves just like this.
615
00:42:54,472 --> 00:42:55,177
Guptaji...
616
00:42:55,206 --> 00:42:58,153
No, Ivlohsin, do not allow this poison
to enter our thoughts.
617
00:42:58,209 --> 00:42:59,620
- Guptaji, Pakistan...
- Gentlemen!
618
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,720
Whatever is going on
in those rooms upstairs
619
00:43:04,983 --> 00:43:06,553
is none of your business.
620
00:43:06,618 --> 00:43:08,495
It's 5.45.
621
00:43:09,020 --> 00:43:11,261
Dinner is now running late.
622
00:43:11,456 --> 00:43:13,595
All of you, jaldi, jaldi.
623
00:43:21,299 --> 00:43:23,711
Your family are from the Punjab,
aren't they?
624
00:43:23,768 --> 00:43:25,748
Yes, sir, they are.
625
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:30,519
In my village, I have five sisters,
Thirteen nieces and nine nephews.
626
00:43:30,575 --> 00:43:33,146
Duleep Singh, sir, his family
are our neighbours.
627
00:43:33,411 --> 00:43:35,357
Do you have Muslim neighbours too?
628
00:43:35,513 --> 00:43:36,787
Of course, sir.
629
00:43:37,115 --> 00:43:39,026
All the children play together.
630
00:43:39,417 --> 00:43:42,626
They celebrate Diwali with us,
we celebrate Eid with them.
631
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:45,559
Sometimes there is even
marriage between us.
632
00:43:49,694 --> 00:43:51,139
Are you married?
633
00:43:51,162 --> 00:43:52,266
No, sir.
634
00:43:53,398 --> 00:43:55,571
I do not know if it is in my destiny.
635
00:43:55,633 --> 00:43:57,340
My mother dreams of it.
636
00:43:57,402 --> 00:43:58,608
And your father?
637
00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:05,343
He died, sir.
638
00:44:08,713 --> 00:44:10,192
When I was a child.
639
00:44:11,115 --> 00:44:15,086
Killed by the British at
the Jallianvvala Bagh massacre.
640
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,348
Namaste, Bapuji,
641
00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:44,683
It is a great honour
to meet you, Bapu.
642
00:44:57,028 --> 00:45:00,601
- This way, sir.
- Over here, please, sir.
643
00:45:08,406 --> 00:45:12,445
We Indians have
always marched, campaigned
644
00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:17,152
and fasted together,
regardless of our creed or class.
645
00:45:17,215 --> 00:45:22,563
For so long we have been united
in our opposition to one oppressor.
646
00:45:22,620 --> 00:45:24,361
And now we are leaving.
647
00:45:26,224 --> 00:45:31,367
It seems freedom, although
longed for... is a fearful thing.
648
00:45:31,429 --> 00:45:35,070
And with fear comes violence.
It's contagious.
649
00:45:36,534 --> 00:45:39,481
But courage is even more contagious.
650
00:45:44,642 --> 00:45:47,418
Shall I tell you what the solution is?
651
00:45:52,350 --> 00:45:56,093
Jinnah should be asked
to form the first government.
652
00:45:57,622 --> 00:45:59,124
Of independent India?
653
00:46:03,961 --> 00:46:10,606
Congress must be prepared to accept
the leadership of the Muslim League
654
00:46:10,668 --> 00:46:13,979
if, by so doing, they ensure
the unity of our country.
655
00:46:14,038 --> 00:46:18,453
You would give the Muslims the baby
rather than carving it up?
656
00:46:18,976 --> 00:46:20,080
But that's...
657
00:46:22,313 --> 00:46:24,020
That's splendidly bold.
658
00:46:24,081 --> 00:46:27,028
Would Congress ever be induced
to accept it?
659
00:46:27,084 --> 00:46:28,085
Would Jinnah?
660
00:46:28,119 --> 00:46:31,087
We must rekindle the lamp
of neighbourliness
661
00:46:31,088 --> 00:46:35,332
between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
662
00:46:35,526 --> 00:46:38,268
You give me hope that reason
will prevail.
663
00:46:38,329 --> 00:46:41,173
What we need is not reason.
664
00:46:42,033 --> 00:46:44,707
We need a far greater force.
665
00:46:46,137 --> 00:46:50,449
A force that politicians
seldom care to mention.
666
00:46:51,075 --> 00:46:52,349
Love?
667
00:46:52,677 --> 00:46:54,156
Precisely.
668
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:59,325
I hope you will honour me
with sharing my food.
669
00:46:59,383 --> 00:47:00,293
This is goat's curd, my favourite.
670
00:47:00,351 --> 00:47:01,022
- Is it?
- You must try this.
671
00:47:01,052 --> 00:47:02,292
- No...
- I insist.
672
00:47:02,353 --> 00:47:04,094
May I have a spoon, please?
673
00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:07,159
You must try this.
This is not cow's milk.
674
00:47:07,191 --> 00:47:08,534
Wish me luck.
675
00:47:12,730 --> 00:47:14,073
Delicious, isn't it?
676
00:47:16,033 --> 00:47:18,070
Would you like to try yourself?
677
00:47:20,605 --> 00:47:23,381
I think it's what you'd call
an acquired taste...
678
00:47:28,412 --> 00:47:30,619
Did you tell Asif
it was too late for him?
679
00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:33,093
Hovv could l?
680
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:37,628
It's the truth.
681
00:47:39,290 --> 00:47:41,566
My father has lost everything.
682
00:47:42,226 --> 00:47:44,502
His wife, his sight.
683
00:47:47,298 --> 00:47:49,244
He's a proud man,
684
00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:51,780
unable to work, dependent on me.
685
00:47:54,105 --> 00:47:59,077
Before Asif arrived, I'd forgotten what
it was like to see him really smile.
686
00:47:59,110 --> 00:48:01,454
I have always made your father smile.
687
00:48:02,180 --> 00:48:03,386
And you too.
688
00:48:03,447 --> 00:48:06,360
Aalia? Are you all right?
689
00:48:07,018 --> 00:48:08,156
Yes, ma'am.
690
00:48:19,430 --> 00:48:23,742
The Viceroy certainly knows
hovv to throw a party.
691
00:48:24,001 --> 00:48:25,071
Your Excellency.
692
00:48:25,102 --> 00:48:26,376
|\/Ir Jinnah, welcome.
693
00:48:26,437 --> 00:48:30,010
May I present |\/Ir Henry F Grady,
the American ambassador.
694
00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:31,212
Your E> 00:48:32,583
Welcome, |\/Ir Ambassador.
696
00:48:32,677 --> 00:48:38,025
Ambassador to one country or to tvvo?
The world can't wait to find out.
697
00:48:38,149 --> 00:48:40,629
The answer may be in the hands
of |\/Ir Jinnah.
698
00:48:41,152 --> 00:48:45,100
It must feel pretty galling for you
to be giving all of this back.
699
00:48:45,389 --> 00:48:46,459
Not at all.
700
00:48:46,657 --> 00:48:48,466
Well, it is high time.
701
00:48:48,526 --> 00:48:49,470
Aalia. ..
702
00:48:50,561 --> 00:48:52,507
imagine life in Pakistan.
703
00:48:52,696 --> 00:48:55,199
No prejudice, no tension.
704
00:48:55,433 --> 00:48:57,470
It's a nation our children
will be proud of.
705
00:48:57,535 --> 00:48:59,344
We were born in India.
706
00:49:00,304 --> 00:49:03,308
And our parents and all our ancestors
are buried here.
707
00:49:03,374 --> 00:49:05,684
- Hovv can we leave?
- We'll visit.
708
00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:08,389
l'll drive my lovely wife
in l\/lr Jinnah's car.
709
00:49:10,014 --> 00:49:12,085
Why should we not be happy?
710
00:49:14,252 --> 00:49:18,667
We've both come through hard years
and I've kept you with me, always.
711
00:49:28,599 --> 00:49:30,101
I'm just a schoolgirl here.
712
00:49:31,202 --> 00:49:32,681
And I was just a boy.
713
00:49:35,406 --> 00:49:36,544
But I knew.
714
00:49:39,577 --> 00:49:40,453
Asif.
715
00:49:43,147 --> 00:49:45,252
I am not that girl any more.
716
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:51,724
I understand this distance
you're keeping.
717
00:49:53,390 --> 00:49:55,734
You must have felt I abandoned you.
718
00:49:58,562 --> 00:50:00,337
But I am here now.
719
00:50:01,032 --> 00:50:02,238
Please...
720
00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:05,207
Give me a chance.
721
00:50:05,269 --> 00:50:07,180
I'll prove I can look after you.
722
00:50:12,743 --> 00:50:15,189
Miss Jinnah, I've been longing
to meet you.
723
00:50:15,246 --> 00:50:16,020
And I you.
724
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,493
Your Excellency... a word.
725
00:50:19,550 --> 00:50:21,052
Please e> 00:50:24,127
Just one moment.
727
00:50:26,157 --> 00:50:28,262
That is not a conversation
I should leave.
728
00:50:28,325 --> 00:50:29,360
This better be good, Pug.
729
00:50:29,427 --> 00:50:31,373
Anything but good.
730
00:50:31,662 --> 00:50:33,699
There's been a massacre in Punjab.
731
00:50:34,131 --> 00:50:36,042
Half of Rawalpindi is on fire.
732
00:50:36,133 --> 00:50:38,477
Muslims burned down
Sikh and Hindu houses.
733
00:50:38,569 --> 00:50:42,142
Brutal reprisals have spread
through Muslim streets.
734
00:50:42,173 --> 00:50:44,244
Order the Punjab police out in force.
735
00:50:44,308 --> 00:50:46,618
- We have.
- If this is replicated...
736
00:50:46,677 --> 00:50:49,783
With respect, there are
18,000 towns like this in Punjab.
737
00:50:50,047 --> 00:50:51,549
We don't have the men.
738
00:50:51,615 --> 00:50:52,753
Then call in the Army.
739
00:50:52,816 --> 00:50:56,127
There are barely any
English soldiers left.
740
00:50:56,153 --> 00:50:58,463
The Indians have divided loyalties.
741
00:50:58,522 --> 00:51:03,164
Hovv can we ask Sikhs to fire on
Sikhs, Muslims on Muslims?
742
00:51:03,227 --> 00:51:06,674
I'm telling you, Dickie,
India is a ship on fire.
743
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:07,674
Daddy, guess what?
744
00:51:07,731 --> 00:51:10,041
- A telegram has come...
- Pamela, do not interrupt!
745
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:12,046
- From the King.
- Get them round the table.
746
00:51:12,103 --> 00:51:13,776
All the leaders.
747
00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:17,344
Pammy!
748
00:51:18,743 --> 00:51:20,313
I'm sorry.
749
00:51:20,377 --> 00:51:22,152
Please tell me what it is.
750
00:51:23,514 --> 00:51:26,256
Princess Lilibet is going to marry
Philip.
751
00:51:27,151 --> 00:51:28,687
But that's wonderful.
752
00:51:29,020 --> 00:51:30,658
They want me for a bridesmaid.
753
00:51:30,721 --> 00:51:32,758
That's splendid, Pammy.
754
00:51:34,358 --> 00:51:38,067
Come on, now. Let's not have this.
Can't let the side down, not in public.
755
00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:48,640
Following the bad news
of communal fighting in India,
756
00:51:48,706 --> 00:51:52,085
with his wife and daughter, the
Viceroy has been paying a visit
757
00:51:52,142 --> 00:51:54,554
to the north-west frontier and Punjab.
758
00:51:55,212 --> 00:51:58,056
He visited many of the places where
the worst clashes had occurred
759
00:51:58,082 --> 00:52:01,359
and saw for himself the serious e> 00:52:03,422
and the vast amount of damage done.
761
00:52:44,461 --> 00:52:47,635
Let Jinnah be Prime Minister
of independent India.
762
00:52:47,698 --> 00:52:50,144
Bapuji, it won't work.
763
00:52:51,202 --> 00:52:52,146
Why not?
764
00:52:52,303 --> 00:52:56,479
With the best will in the world,
Jinnah will never agree.
765
00:52:56,607 --> 00:52:59,178
He wouldn't even come to this table.
766
00:52:59,276 --> 00:53:01,984
He said the time for talking is over.
767
00:53:02,046 --> 00:53:04,356
I think it's a very daring idea.
768
00:53:04,982 --> 00:53:07,588
Daring, yes, but feasible?
769
00:53:07,751 --> 00:53:09,560
Jinnah's not a fool, Dickie.
770
00:53:09,753 --> 00:53:12,996
He knows that you can't place
300 million Hindus
771
00:53:13,524 --> 00:53:16,471
under the rule of the Muslim League.
They won't have it.
772
00:53:16,527 --> 00:53:19,098
But if you leaders give him
your support?
773
00:53:19,230 --> 00:53:21,039
This is a democracy.
774
00:53:21,132 --> 00:53:24,375
At the first opportunity,
the people will vote him out.
775
00:53:24,401 --> 00:53:27,245
Which brings us back to square one:
776
00:53:27,504 --> 00:53:31,042
- The Muslim minority and Pakistan.
- I agree.
777
00:53:31,108 --> 00:53:35,215
Why do you all not see,
if we oppose partition,
778
00:53:35,412 --> 00:53:37,585
India remains united.
779
00:53:37,715 --> 00:53:41,128
Hovv many towns
descending into slaughter?
780
00:53:41,452 --> 00:53:44,433
We've tried too long to break
this deadlock.
781
00:53:44,722 --> 00:53:46,702
Singh, Kumar.
782
00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:57,610
The world moves on.
783
00:53:58,135 --> 00:54:00,615
Not as we like it, but it moves.
784
00:54:00,771 --> 00:54:02,478
We will have our independence.
785
00:54:02,973 --> 00:54:04,714
Let Jinnah have his Pakistan.
786
00:54:05,409 --> 00:54:07,719
In five years‘ time,
he will be knocking at our door
787
00:54:07,978 --> 00:54:10,356
and begging to be part of India again.
788
00:54:10,414 --> 00:54:15,386
It is not possible to divide the heart
and e> 00:54:17,659
Gandhiji, hovv can we reach
an agreement with Jinnah
790
00:54:17,721 --> 00:54:20,292
if you can't agree with Jawahar?
791
00:54:20,424 --> 00:54:22,700
Every moment we debate
brings more violence.
792
00:54:23,627 --> 00:54:28,098
We can concede the provinces
with a clear Muslim majority,
793
00:54:28,432 --> 00:54:31,436
but Jinnah cannot have Punjab
and Bengal.
794
00:54:31,702 --> 00:54:34,774
They have large Hindu and
Sikh populations.
795
00:54:35,305 --> 00:54:39,754
Then we must divide the two provinces
between the two countries.
796
00:54:40,578 --> 00:54:45,152
Half of the Punjab and
Bengal to India,
797
00:54:45,449 --> 00:54:47,725
the other half to Pakistan.
798
00:54:48,318 --> 00:54:49,592
Partition.
799
00:54:50,254 --> 00:54:55,294
And which god among you
decides where the border falls?
800
00:55:10,541 --> 00:55:14,421
You've spoken yourself about
the beauty of compromise.
801
00:55:17,047 --> 00:55:19,618
This compromise will have
beauty, Bapu...
802
00:55:20,617 --> 00:55:22,494
because it will bring peace.
803
00:55:23,554 --> 00:55:26,398
The callouses on my feet,
804
00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:29,197
the years in prison...
805
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,505
the hopes and dreams of our people
806
00:55:33,697 --> 00:55:36,405
were for independence,
807
00:55:37,034 --> 00:55:38,342
not partition.
808
00:55:39,103 --> 00:55:41,379
No one is listening to Gandhiji.
809
00:55:41,438 --> 00:55:44,385
Mountbatten sahib and Nehru
seem to agree.
810
00:55:44,441 --> 00:55:47,081
Pakistan will come to be.
811
00:55:47,111 --> 00:55:48,715
Ah, Allah be praised.
812
00:55:48,779 --> 00:55:51,589
- Pakistan Zindabad.
- Our Pakistan.
813
00:55:51,648 --> 00:55:55,027
lvlohsin, our sisters are all in hiding
because of you animals.
814
00:55:55,085 --> 00:55:56,792
You're the animals,
destroying the peace.
815
00:55:57,054 --> 00:55:59,398
All religions are true.
816
00:55:59,757 --> 00:56:02,499
We are brothers with one soul.
817
00:56:04,028 --> 00:56:06,668
To divide us on religious grounds...
818
00:56:06,730 --> 00:56:09,677
is against the will of God.
819
00:56:11,101 --> 00:56:14,275
Division does not create peace.
820
00:56:15,672 --> 00:56:17,652
It creates havoc.
821
00:56:18,242 --> 00:56:21,621
Partition unleashes passions.
822
00:56:22,079 --> 00:56:24,423
It does not dampen them.
823
00:56:25,482 --> 00:56:27,553
We shall tear ourselves asunder
824
00:56:27,618 --> 00:56:30,531
in the womb of the mother
who bears us.
825
00:56:30,587 --> 00:56:33,090
The Viceroy's house is not
for the likes of this.
826
00:56:33,524 --> 00:56:36,095
You are dismissed, both of you.
827
00:56:43,133 --> 00:56:45,579
- Ivlohsin, no.
- Mohsin.
828
00:56:45,636 --> 00:56:46,239
What are you doing?
829
00:56:46,503 --> 00:56:48,141
Get your things.
830
00:56:48,405 --> 00:56:50,578
The guards will escort you
from your quarters.
831
00:56:51,008 --> 00:56:52,146
We are guards.
832
00:56:52,175 --> 00:56:55,054
Us leave? It is you who have
no place here.
833
00:56:55,112 --> 00:56:57,319
One more word,
I'll have you both arrested.
834
00:57:00,317 --> 00:57:04,288
Get them out of here!
Back to work!
835
00:57:05,022 --> 00:57:07,161
Come, let's go, please.
836
00:57:08,258 --> 00:57:09,362
Come on!
837
00:57:18,168 --> 00:57:20,478
It's worse than Glasgow
on a Saturday night.
838
00:57:22,105 --> 00:57:23,209
Thank you, my friend.
839
00:57:26,009 --> 00:57:26,714
Thank you.
840
00:57:30,547 --> 00:57:34,120
What happened with Ewart and
the staff? You were there, were you?
841
00:57:34,351 --> 00:57:36,729
Yes, sir. It was terrible.
842
00:57:36,754 --> 00:57:38,290
I've just seen Pug.
843
00:57:38,622 --> 00:57:40,192
You're going to London with him?
844
00:57:41,625 --> 00:57:44,435
We have to make the best possible
case to the government,
845
00:57:44,494 --> 00:57:48,442
get it to endorse partition and shock
the leaders out of their intransigence
846
00:57:48,499 --> 00:57:49,739
by accelerating the process.
847
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,673
Otherwise the bloodshed will
continue.
848
00:57:52,002 --> 00:57:55,245
So when were you intending to tell me
you'd made your decision on partition?
849
00:57:55,305 --> 00:57:56,648
It's the only way forward.
850
00:57:56,740 --> 00:57:58,617
We've barely been here two months.
851
00:57:58,675 --> 00:58:00,279
And the country is burning.
852
00:58:00,344 --> 00:58:02,551
Dickie, there's no going back
on this decision.
853
00:58:02,613 --> 00:58:06,151
There is no time for indecision.
I must act.
854
00:58:06,216 --> 00:58:10,687
You cannot change tack so hastily.
You are a statesman, not a sailor.
855
00:58:10,954 --> 00:58:13,059
Edwina, people are dying every day!
856
00:58:13,090 --> 00:58:15,161
Murders, rapes, reprisals,
857
00:58:15,192 --> 00:58:17,331
from Calcutta to Bombay,
Amritsar to Kahuta.
858
00:58:17,394 --> 00:58:20,739
Imagine that repeated in every city
and village across India.
859
00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:23,500
Hovv much longer
do you want me to wait?
860
00:58:26,169 --> 00:58:28,445
Hovv can it be getting worse
under us?
861
00:58:28,505 --> 00:58:30,280
Precisely my point.
862
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,244
We have no control.
863
00:58:32,442 --> 00:58:35,013
But a solution is in sight.
864
00:58:35,045 --> 00:58:36,581
But partition?
865
00:58:38,081 --> 00:58:41,221
It may seem a good solution now,
but in the long term...
866
00:58:41,284 --> 00:58:44,060
It's hard enough negotiating
with them, Edwina.
867
00:58:50,661 --> 00:58:52,368
You have my support.
868
00:58:52,429 --> 00:58:54,705
But not your approval.
869
00:58:54,765 --> 00:58:56,108
You don't need my approval.
870
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,174
I have to persuade the prime minister,
Churchill, and the opposition.
871
00:59:00,237 --> 00:59:02,239
Heaven help me if I can't
persuade you.
872
00:59:04,007 --> 00:59:06,453
We came to give India back
her freedom.
873
00:59:07,644 --> 00:59:09,590
Not to tear her apart.
874
00:59:10,013 --> 00:59:11,492
We have no choice.
875
00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:15,655
If we don't transfer power soon,
there may be nothing left to transfer.
876
00:59:23,593 --> 00:59:27,700
The Viceroy arrives in Britain by air,
having returned for consultations
877
00:59:27,998 --> 00:59:31,070
of the utmost importance regarding
the British withdrawal from India.
878
00:59:32,002 --> 00:59:35,449
He can only hope that the Viceroy will
find a solution.
879
00:59:35,506 --> 00:59:38,282
With communal fighting increasing in
violence, especially in the Punjab,
880
00:59:38,341 --> 00:59:42,221
the task of handing over is obviously
a tremendous problem.
881
00:59:42,479 --> 00:59:46,723
Curfews have been imposed
in Lahore and Calcutta,
882
00:59:47,150 --> 00:59:52,122
and large areas of Bengal
and the Punjab remain unsafe.
883
00:59:53,090 --> 00:59:58,563
Rawalpindi and its surrounding
villages are in a critical state.
884
00:59:59,529 --> 01:00:03,705
We know that some of you
have families in these areas.
885
01:00:04,668 --> 01:00:06,648
They may come to you here.
886
01:00:06,703 --> 01:00:08,341
Come on go inside.
887
01:00:08,638 --> 01:00:11,312
Basic accommodation
will be found
888
01:00:11,375 --> 01:00:14,720
and food will be rationed
to meet demand.
889
01:00:14,778 --> 01:00:17,452
A hardship fund has been
made available.
890
01:00:24,721 --> 01:00:27,292
- Pamela?
- I'm here, Aalia.
891
01:00:27,491 --> 01:00:29,266
This child has a very high fever.
892
01:00:30,594 --> 01:00:32,631
Yes, he's dehydrated.
893
01:00:37,634 --> 01:00:41,411
In certain cases,
permission will be given
894
01:00:41,471 --> 01:00:44,452
for you to go and bring
your people back.
895
01:00:44,508 --> 01:00:46,181
I need to get back to our village.
896
01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:49,787
The refugees have told me terrible
things. I need to get home.
897
01:00:50,514 --> 01:00:51,390
Wait.
898
01:00:53,049 --> 01:00:54,824
The violence is caused by uncertainty.
899
01:00:55,085 --> 01:00:57,292
If the British do
what Mountbatten says,
900
01:00:58,221 --> 01:01:00,167
he says the violence will stop.
901
01:01:00,190 --> 01:01:01,430
And you believe him?
902
01:01:02,759 --> 01:01:04,500
What country will our village be in?
903
01:01:05,128 --> 01:01:06,698
What if it's Pakistan?
904
01:01:07,097 --> 01:01:11,102
There is a madness taking hold here,
a hatred.
905
01:01:11,134 --> 01:01:13,080
It's soldiers deserting the army,
906
01:01:13,103 --> 01:01:16,346
men from other towns
forming into gangs and militias.
907
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,519
They want our land.
908
01:01:22,079 --> 01:01:24,150
- Well, then, I must go with you.
- No.
909
01:01:24,681 --> 01:01:26,592
I need you to stay here.
910
01:01:27,517 --> 01:01:29,087
What if they've left already?
911
01:01:29,119 --> 01:01:33,363
What if they arrive here
and we are gone? You stay, I'll go.
912
01:01:53,476 --> 01:01:54,614
Have you seen this, sir?
913
01:02:23,106 --> 01:02:25,609
- Ah.
- Welcome home, Daddy.
914
01:02:25,709 --> 01:02:27,416
Thank you, darling.
915
01:02:27,511 --> 01:02:30,151
- Hovv was Westminster?
- Deliciously cool.
916
01:02:30,213 --> 01:02:32,386
The cabinet passed the plan
in the blink of an eye.
917
01:02:32,449 --> 01:02:35,328
We got the green light
to speed up independence.
918
01:02:35,552 --> 01:02:36,587
What about Churchill?
919
01:02:36,653 --> 01:02:39,657
He was quite sanguine.
Accepted the plan.
920
01:02:39,723 --> 01:02:41,225
He was very complimentary.
921
01:02:41,291 --> 01:02:44,795
He pointed out that Dickie has,
in a matter of weeks,
922
01:02:45,061 --> 01:02:47,564
achieved what Wavell and
all the previous Viceroys
923
01:02:47,631 --> 01:02:50,441
failed to achieve in years.
924
01:02:51,401 --> 01:02:57,113
The government and the press
are calling it the Mountbatten Plan.
925
01:02:57,807 --> 01:02:59,650
Well done.
926
01:03:03,013 --> 01:03:05,118
The Mountbatten Plan?
927
01:03:07,017 --> 01:03:09,520
|\/Ir Jinnah, what is your solution
to end the violence?
928
01:03:09,552 --> 01:03:12,692
- ls partition the only way?
- ls Pakistan the answer?
929
01:03:12,989 --> 01:03:15,993
|\/Ir Jinnah, what will you be doing
to stop the escalating violence?
930
01:03:16,059 --> 01:03:18,005
|\/Ir Nehru, a moment, please.
931
01:03:18,061 --> 01:03:21,042
|\/Ir Nehru, do you have the support
of the Indian National Congress?
932
01:03:21,097 --> 01:03:25,045
What is your answer for freedom
in India, please, |\/Ir Nehru?
933
01:03:30,006 --> 01:03:32,680
Now... Why has Gandhi not attended?
934
01:03:33,376 --> 01:03:37,688
He apologises but he cannot assent
to the Mountbatten Plan.
935
01:03:38,148 --> 01:03:39,422
But will he go against it?
936
01:03:39,482 --> 01:03:43,055
- Will he try to speak out, to sabotage...
- Bapuji has informed me
937
01:03:43,119 --> 01:03:46,066
that today is his day of silence.
938
01:03:48,224 --> 01:03:50,602
Why must everything now be rushed?
939
01:03:51,461 --> 01:03:54,374
I wanted all of the Punjab and Bengal.
940
01:03:54,531 --> 01:03:58,570
You e> 01:04:00,577
You should be grateful.
942
01:04:01,404 --> 01:04:03,315
You've held us to ransom
for long enough.
943
01:04:03,373 --> 01:04:06,183
- |\/Ir Nehru, it is you...
- I am chairing this meeting
944
01:04:06,243 --> 01:04:09,383
and I demand that we respect
one another.
945
01:04:09,446 --> 01:04:13,155
The British cabinet has formally
approved the partition of India.
946
01:04:13,216 --> 01:04:15,321
By the end of this meeting,
it is my intention
947
01:04:15,385 --> 01:04:19,527
that all parties will accept the plan
and our new timeline.
948
01:04:19,589 --> 01:04:20,533
Impossible.
949
01:04:21,992 --> 01:04:22,629
We'll need a week at least
950
01:04:22,692 --> 01:04:25,036
to get formal approval from
the Muslim League.
951
01:04:25,095 --> 01:04:26,597
I can't hold this position for a week.
952
01:04:27,497 --> 01:04:29,033
You've got your Pakistan,
953
01:04:29,099 --> 01:04:31,170
which at one time no one in the world
thought you'd get.
954
01:04:33,170 --> 01:04:37,141
If I don't have your agreement,
this plan will collapse,
955
01:04:38,008 --> 01:04:42,184
and the country that you have conjured
out of thin air will disappear.
956
01:04:45,682 --> 01:04:47,093
What about the borders?
957
01:04:48,151 --> 01:04:50,028
Who decides?
958
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:54,068
And where e> 01:04:57,628
The cabinet has appointed
Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a barrister,
960
01:04:57,694 --> 01:04:59,139
to chair the border commission.
961
01:04:59,196 --> 01:05:02,075
He will be assisted by members of
the Muslim League and by Congress.
962
01:05:02,098 --> 01:05:04,100
It will be a wholly impartial process.
963
01:05:16,146 --> 01:05:19,616
They say, don't they, that tea is
actually cooling in the hot weather?
964
01:05:21,050 --> 01:05:25,123
- Would you like it cool, sir?
- No, no. No, thank you.
965
01:05:31,061 --> 01:05:34,008
- Sir Cyril, welcome.
- Your Excellency.
966
01:05:34,064 --> 01:05:35,042
Good to see you.
967
01:05:35,065 --> 01:05:37,568
- You know Lord lsmay.
- Everyone knows Pug, sir.
968
01:05:37,634 --> 01:05:40,080
You've come in the hottest summer
for 75 years,
969
01:05:40,103 --> 01:05:41,411
114 degrees in the shade.
970
01:05:41,471 --> 01:05:44,509
- I'll adjust, I'm sure.
- You don't mind if I...
971
01:05:44,574 --> 01:05:47,077
Novv, At|ee's told you of the task.
972
01:05:47,210 --> 01:05:50,089
Yes, you want a fair decision
on a boundary line
973
01:05:50,146 --> 01:05:53,457
dividing 9O million Muslims, Sikhs
and Hindus.
974
01:05:53,550 --> 01:05:55,393
Quite so.
Tea with milk.
975
01:05:55,452 --> 01:05:57,432
And you want it by August 15th.
976
01:05:57,587 --> 01:05:59,294
Actually, that's one day shy.
977
01:05:59,356 --> 01:06:02,667
I've agreed to move the date up to
midnight of August 14th
978
01:06:02,725 --> 01:06:04,204
to satisfy the astrologers.
979
01:06:04,461 --> 01:06:06,270
That's less than five weeks.
980
01:06:06,329 --> 01:06:08,309
You'll have a small team working
with you.
981
01:06:08,365 --> 01:06:11,346
They'll be representing
all the parties concerned.
982
01:06:11,401 --> 01:06:17,079
We'll provide you with maps,
census figures, geographical data,
983
01:06:17,107 --> 01:06:20,384
and any other information you require.
984
01:06:21,544 --> 01:06:26,050
You're asking me to draw a line
through people's houses,
985
01:06:26,282 --> 01:06:29,024
rice paddies, jute fields...
986
01:06:29,085 --> 01:06:33,158
Look, I understand.
It's a daunting proposition, yes.
987
01:06:33,490 --> 01:06:38,735
And we all accept that some anomalies
will be inevitable.
988
01:06:39,329 --> 01:06:42,173
Radcliffe, hovv well do you know
Bengal and the Punjab?
989
01:06:42,232 --> 01:06:44,405
I assumed Pug would have
told you, sir.
990
01:06:44,467 --> 01:06:47,346
I've never set foot
in India in my life.
991
01:06:51,007 --> 01:06:53,510
What I don't understand is 15 August.
992
01:06:53,576 --> 01:06:55,146
That's just a few weeks away.
993
01:06:55,212 --> 01:06:58,750
Why so soon, huh? They were
supposed to leave ne> 01:07:01,291
They don't want to be accountable
for the carnage.
995
01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:04,059
Mountbatten sahib is trying
to prevent carnage.
996
01:07:04,454 --> 01:07:05,694
That is why he moved the date.
997
01:07:06,222 --> 01:07:08,702
You listen to his
faithful serving boy.
998
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,135
People need certainty.
999
01:07:14,063 --> 01:07:15,371
That is his intention.
1000
01:07:15,398 --> 01:07:20,404
Jeet, intentions are one thing.
Actions another.
1001
01:07:20,503 --> 01:07:23,109
The British are like rats
leaving a sinking ship.
1002
01:07:23,173 --> 01:07:28,680
They say the gutters in Lahore
are flowing like rivers of blood.
1003
01:07:28,978 --> 01:07:31,083
People killing each other when
we've lived together for centuries.
1004
01:07:31,147 --> 01:07:33,218
- The army is deserting.
- Listen to me...
1005
01:07:33,283 --> 01:07:36,287
Soldiers keeping their weapons,
groups of militia running wild.
1006
01:07:36,352 --> 01:07:39,629
Listen to me, this is nothing
but a lawless land grab.
1007
01:07:40,156 --> 01:07:42,432
Hovv is Mountbatten sahib
going to stop all the violence?
1008
01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:45,128
Vast mobs have been out
in the streets of Bombay
1009
01:07:45,194 --> 01:07:48,437
during si>< days of violence that have
included murder,
1010
01:07:48,498 --> 01:07:50,341
as well as wrecking, burning
and looting,
1011
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,073
a question of state boundaries.
1012
01:07:52,135 --> 01:07:55,412
Curfew was one of the methods
adopted in Delhi
1013
01:07:55,471 --> 01:07:58,111
in an attempt to get the communal
fighting under control.
1014
01:07:58,441 --> 01:08:02,355
So one part of the picture shows
empty streets and locked doors.
1015
01:08:02,445 --> 01:08:05,517
The other picture of Delhi shows
mob violence, the looting of shops,
1016
01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:09,155
and the consequent loss of life
and destruction of property.
1017
01:08:28,071 --> 01:08:29,049
Ubba?
1018
01:08:29,072 --> 01:08:29,573
Aalia!
1019
01:08:30,273 --> 01:08:30,978
Ubba!
1020
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,111
Aalia! Wait, wait, wait.
1021
01:08:33,176 --> 01:08:34,177
Ubba?
1022
01:08:37,447 --> 01:08:40,394
What happened? Where is Ubba?
1023
01:08:41,351 --> 01:08:43,297
Where are you, sir? Aalia?
1024
01:08:46,656 --> 01:08:48,294
Covvards!
1025
01:08:49,759 --> 01:08:51,295
Don't you know me?
1026
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:54,130
Don't you know my father?
1027
01:08:54,197 --> 01:08:55,107
Where's Ubba?
1028
01:08:55,131 --> 01:08:58,078
No violence will be
tolerated in Viceroy's House.
1029
01:08:58,101 --> 01:09:02,447
Perpetrators will be dismissed and
jailed, their families told to leave.
1030
01:09:02,505 --> 01:09:05,384
Ubba? Ubba!
1031
01:09:05,942 --> 01:09:10,448
The harshest measures will be taken.
There will be no riot here!
1032
01:09:10,613 --> 01:09:14,026
It's time for us
to come together now.
1033
01:09:14,050 --> 01:09:18,499
What we face is the most significant
moment
1034
01:09:18,554 --> 01:09:21,330
in the history of this sub-continent.
1035
01:09:21,491 --> 01:09:24,961
Our children and our grandchildren
1036
01:09:25,061 --> 01:09:28,042
may one day ask us hovv we served.
1037
01:09:28,464 --> 01:09:33,607
We must ensure we can be proud
of what we say.
1038
01:09:34,070 --> 01:09:38,485
In less than 3O days now,
India will be divided.
1039
01:09:39,008 --> 01:09:42,421
The partition council has agreed
that the national assets and debt
1040
01:09:42,478 --> 01:09:48,087
will be apportioned 80% to India
and 20% to Pakistan.
1041
01:09:48,384 --> 01:09:52,093
We will be following that same
formula in this great house.
1042
01:09:52,622 --> 01:09:54,101
Finally...
1043
01:09:55,125 --> 01:09:56,763
and I am sorry to say this...
1044
01:09:58,995 --> 01:10:02,033
each one of you must choose which
country will have your allegiance,
1045
01:10:02,131 --> 01:10:03,405
India...
1046
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:04,637
or Pakistan.
1047
01:10:19,015 --> 01:10:20,551
Suhara Kapur, India.
1048
01:10:20,617 --> 01:10:21,618
Next.
1049
01:10:22,519 --> 01:10:24,260
l, too. Pakistan.
1050
01:10:24,654 --> 01:10:25,689
Next.
1051
01:10:27,457 --> 01:10:29,130
Sanjit Gupta.
1052
01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:31,138
India.
1053
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:32,264
Next.
1054
01:10:32,662 --> 01:10:34,141
|\/Ir Ali.
1055
01:10:34,530 --> 01:10:36,271
Sir, I want to go to Pakistan.
1056
01:10:36,499 --> 01:10:37,705
I wish you well.
1057
01:10:39,169 --> 01:10:41,376
Jeet, what's going to happen to us?
1058
01:10:43,606 --> 01:10:44,482
Come.
1059
01:10:44,574 --> 01:10:46,576
- I'm so scared.
- Come.
1060
01:10:48,178 --> 01:10:52,422
Soup spoons, Fifteen cases for India,
three cases for Pakistan.
1061
01:10:52,482 --> 01:10:56,362
Teaspoons, Forty cases for India,
ten cases for Pakistan.
1062
01:10:57,053 --> 01:11:00,728
Butter knives, Twenty cases for India,
five cases for Pakistan.
1063
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:02,694
Tuba, India.
1064
01:11:02,759 --> 01:11:04,670
French horn, Pakistan.
1065
01:11:10,366 --> 01:11:13,245
Right, what do the latest reports say?
1066
01:11:13,303 --> 01:11:16,113
Ah, vvell, that we know about.
1067
01:11:17,607 --> 01:11:20,247
India. Pakistan.
1068
01:11:22,145 --> 01:11:24,250
- India.
- Next!
1069
01:11:27,350 --> 01:11:29,330
Pakistan.
1070
01:11:30,119 --> 01:11:32,030
India. Pakistan.
1071
01:11:34,457 --> 01:11:36,437
India. Pakistan.
1072
01:11:51,341 --> 01:11:52,786
I don't know what to do.
1073
01:11:55,511 --> 01:11:57,320
Your father's a good man.
1074
01:11:58,581 --> 01:11:59,685
He'll understand.
1075
01:12:00,550 --> 01:12:01,722
Aalia.
1076
01:12:03,119 --> 01:12:05,326
We belong together.
1077
01:12:07,991 --> 01:12:09,163
Take this Kara.
1078
01:12:10,326 --> 01:12:12,328
It shows our unity.
1079
01:12:15,398 --> 01:12:16,775
I'm scared.
1080
01:12:20,570 --> 01:12:23,107
Wuthering Heights must come to
Pakistan.
1081
01:12:23,139 --> 01:12:26,450
Then Jane Eyre stays here
and all of the Jane Austen.
1082
01:12:26,509 --> 01:12:28,489
India. Pakistan.
1083
01:12:28,545 --> 01:12:31,788
But we can't break the encyclopaedias.
That would be a crime.
1084
01:12:32,048 --> 01:12:36,463
No, 20% comes to Pakistan.
A to E or S to Z?
1085
01:12:36,519 --> 01:12:39,090
- Give me A to E.
- This is absurd.
1086
01:12:41,257 --> 01:12:43,032
Where communities are so mi> 01:12:45,732
it is of course impossible to draw
boundaries
1088
01:12:45,795 --> 01:12:48,469
which will segregate Hindus on
the one hand, Muslims on the other.
1089
01:12:48,565 --> 01:12:51,136
Fires raged unchecked in many
places
1090
01:12:51,167 --> 01:12:54,478
while pitched battles continued
between Muslims and Hindus.
1091
01:12:54,537 --> 01:12:57,814
Casualties totalled 3,000 killed
and 8,000 injured.
1092
01:12:58,074 --> 01:13:00,213
Very well. Thank you. Where?
1093
01:13:44,220 --> 01:13:45,790
Ubba, are you comfortable?
1094
01:13:46,055 --> 01:13:47,500
Aalia!
1095
01:13:48,558 --> 01:13:49,332
Jeet.
1096
01:13:49,759 --> 01:13:52,603
I have to take my father to Lahore.
1097
01:13:53,496 --> 01:13:56,272
Asif has very kindly agreed
to take us to the station.
1098
01:13:56,666 --> 01:13:59,408
My father is my first
responsibility, Jeet.
1099
01:13:59,702 --> 01:14:03,047
- I have to do what's best for him.
- Running away isn't best for him.
1100
01:14:03,072 --> 01:14:05,052
I'm trying to keep him alive.
1101
01:14:05,508 --> 01:14:07,454
It's all changed now.
1102
01:14:08,444 --> 01:14:12,085
When people see us, they don't see
Indians any more. We're Muslims.
1103
01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:14,755
Aalia, you are as Indian as I am.
1104
01:14:16,018 --> 01:14:19,192
- India is what we make it.
- Don't make it any harder, please.
1105
01:14:20,189 --> 01:14:23,068
Aalia, please, I am begging you,
don't do this.
1106
01:14:23,126 --> 01:14:24,503
Aalia, are you ready, beta?
1107
01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:26,631
- Just a minute, Abba.
- Who's there?
1108
01:14:27,330 --> 01:14:28,331
Jeet Kumar, sir.
1109
01:14:28,397 --> 01:14:32,038
We have to go.
Our train leaves at midnight.
1110
01:14:32,435 --> 01:14:35,575
I hear you helped Aalia and Ubba
when the house was set on fire.
1111
01:14:35,638 --> 01:14:37,276
I thank you for
everything that you did.
1112
01:14:39,442 --> 01:14:42,355
My mother and brother will be at
the station in Lahore to receive you.
1113
01:14:42,712 --> 01:14:46,216
My home will be your home
just as soon as we're married.
1114
01:14:46,282 --> 01:14:49,263
- Tell him. Tell him, Aalia.
- Tell me what?
1115
01:14:52,121 --> 01:14:56,194
I know right now
it's the hardest thing to stay,
1116
01:14:56,259 --> 01:14:57,738
but you are brave.
1117
01:14:59,562 --> 01:15:01,667
- And your father...
- He has to be safe.
1118
01:15:05,435 --> 01:15:07,346
My father must be safe.
1119
01:15:13,276 --> 01:15:14,550
Goodbye, Jeet.
1120
01:15:19,582 --> 01:15:21,255
- We have to go now.
- Kumar?
1121
01:15:30,293 --> 01:15:33,502
I never thought this would
happen to my country.
1122
01:15:34,563 --> 01:15:36,634
But I must, for my daughter's sake.
1123
01:15:40,002 --> 01:15:43,245
ls your future still clouded,
my friend?
1124
01:15:44,507 --> 01:15:46,783
Have you spoken yet
to your young woman?
1125
01:15:50,747 --> 01:15:51,782
Yes, sir.
1126
01:15:53,783 --> 01:15:55,126
It won't happen.
1127
01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:57,087
Why not?
1128
01:15:59,021 --> 01:16:00,329
Because she is leaving...
1129
01:16:01,991 --> 01:16:03,561
on a train for Pakistan.
1130
01:16:13,336 --> 01:16:15,077
It's been an honour knowing you, sir.
1131
01:16:33,089 --> 01:16:34,159
We have to go.
1132
01:16:48,137 --> 01:16:50,117
We'll be safe in Pakistan, Ubba.
1133
01:17:25,975 --> 01:17:28,581
|\/Ir Nehru, we in America are
well aware
1134
01:17:28,644 --> 01:17:30,555
of your admiration for
the Soviet Union.
1135
01:17:30,613 --> 01:17:33,457
I admire America too, |\/Ir Grady.
1136
01:17:33,516 --> 01:17:35,655
Good, I'm glad to hear that.
1137
01:17:35,718 --> 01:17:38,460
There is a lot that
America can do here.
1138
01:17:38,521 --> 01:17:40,125
After freeing ourselves from
one empire,
1139
01:17:40,189 --> 01:17:42,567
we'll not get too close to another.
1140
01:17:42,625 --> 01:17:45,538
India must go her own way.
1141
01:17:45,694 --> 01:17:47,105
Excuse me, sir.
1142
01:17:47,496 --> 01:17:50,443
|\/Ir Radcliffe would like to speak
with you.
1143
01:17:51,601 --> 01:17:53,774
With your permission, sir, I'll go.
1144
01:17:56,773 --> 01:17:59,515
I strongly think we need more time.
1145
01:17:59,775 --> 01:18:00,719
Sit down.
1146
01:18:01,244 --> 01:18:04,123
Pug, I don't know if you really
understand,
1147
01:18:04,580 --> 01:18:09,393
but the commission is in deadlock
with every city we come to,
1148
01:18:09,986 --> 01:18:13,195
and I'm most concerned about
the fairness of the thing.
1149
01:18:13,522 --> 01:18:16,662
I wonder if we might not involve
some other body.
1150
01:18:17,059 --> 01:18:18,060
What other body?
1151
01:18:18,427 --> 01:18:20,236
The United Nations, for example.
1152
01:18:20,396 --> 01:18:24,503
And admit that we British
can't see to our own affairs?
1153
01:18:24,534 --> 01:18:29,381
With respect, it's a monstrous
responsibility forjust one man.
1154
01:18:33,542 --> 01:18:35,351
I'm going to go and see Mountbatten.
1155
01:18:35,411 --> 01:18:39,188
Dickie has to stay impartial.
You know that.
1156
01:18:39,248 --> 01:18:43,526
If he comes down on either side,
the vvhole thing will blow up.
1157
01:18:43,586 --> 01:18:45,759
It's got to be a clean cut.
1158
01:18:46,022 --> 01:18:51,131
It's a bloody axe, Pug, cleaving
right through people's lives.
1159
01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:01,044
This might be everything you need.
1160
01:19:12,014 --> 01:19:16,156
It's a policy document drawn up by
Churchill when he was Prime Minister.
1161
01:19:16,285 --> 01:19:17,320
Two years ago.
1162
01:19:17,486 --> 01:19:20,057
It sets out the future of India.
1163
01:19:23,325 --> 01:19:25,999
It should make your task easier.
1164
01:19:29,632 --> 01:19:30,975
What's this map?
1165
01:19:31,033 --> 01:19:35,106
It was drawn up by Viceroy Wavell
last year.
1166
01:19:36,505 --> 01:19:39,281
I don't understand. There's already
a boundary line there.
1167
01:19:39,341 --> 01:19:42,049
I've been asked to pass it on to you.
1168
01:19:42,611 --> 01:19:45,023
By whom? Mountbatten?
1169
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,492
No. He knows nothing of it.
1170
01:19:48,350 --> 01:19:52,025
This comes right from the top,
Radcliffe.
1171
01:19:52,288 --> 01:19:58,398
We didn't beat the Nazis and the Japs
to give away the shop to the Soviets.
1172
01:20:02,098 --> 01:20:07,207
As you can see, there are no
straight lines in India.
1173
01:20:23,385 --> 01:20:26,059
There are hundreds coming every day.
1174
01:20:26,255 --> 01:20:27,757
Thousands in the city.
1175
01:20:28,758 --> 01:20:30,601
The stories they tell...
1176
01:20:33,229 --> 01:20:35,675
This isn't part of
Daddy's plan, is it?
1177
01:20:39,768 --> 01:20:45,343
This way, this way.
Please, keep moving. Keep moving.
1178
01:21:01,123 --> 01:21:02,761
Duleep!
1179
01:21:04,059 --> 01:21:05,470
What happened?
1180
01:21:05,728 --> 01:21:09,141
Are any of our family here?
1181
01:21:09,431 --> 01:21:10,341
No.
1182
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:13,537
Then I was... I was too late.
1183
01:21:14,136 --> 01:21:15,308
It was destroyed.
1184
01:21:15,337 --> 01:21:18,648
- What?
- Our village. They're all gone.
1185
01:21:18,707 --> 01:21:23,213
Men came from miles around,
destroying.
1186
01:21:23,579 --> 01:21:25,718
Our families are gone.
1187
01:21:26,248 --> 01:21:28,592
My mother? My sisters?
1188
01:21:29,385 --> 01:21:30,796
I couldn't find them.
1189
01:21:31,754 --> 01:21:34,598
I hope to God they are in
a refugee camp somewhere.
1190
01:21:35,157 --> 01:21:36,727
This girl I found in a barn.
1191
01:21:38,661 --> 01:21:39,731
The only one left.
1192
01:21:42,164 --> 01:21:45,168
All the way back, the dead lying
by the road.
1193
01:21:45,301 --> 01:21:48,441
Women jumped in the well
rather than be raped.
1194
01:22:08,491 --> 01:22:11,062
Sir, the boundary line is drawn.
1195
01:22:13,395 --> 01:22:17,275
We shan't announce this until after
the independence celebrations.
1196
01:22:17,533 --> 01:22:18,773
Why on earth?
1197
01:22:19,535 --> 01:22:22,482
The pressure I've been under
to produce that by today.
1198
01:22:23,072 --> 01:22:25,552
Let them have the joy of
their independence days
1199
01:22:25,608 --> 01:22:28,384
and face the misery of
the situation afterwards.
1200
01:22:29,111 --> 01:22:32,524
There will be carnage, sir,
either way.
1201
01:22:32,648 --> 01:22:37,358
All the leaders believe that partition
will reduce the violence, not inflame it.
1202
01:22:37,586 --> 01:22:39,566
I've done a wholly inadequate job.
1203
01:22:41,090 --> 01:22:42,467
I'm sorry you think so.
1204
01:22:43,425 --> 01:22:46,531
In all conscience,
I cannot accept my fee.
1205
01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:53,174
I believe...
1206
01:22:53,435 --> 01:22:55,176
that you rather love this country.
1207
01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:01,353
I think you deserve to know.
1208
01:23:46,021 --> 01:23:48,501
Our porter is ready to load.
1209
01:23:53,596 --> 01:23:55,633
Do you think we'll have enough?
1210
01:23:56,432 --> 01:23:59,413
There are too many people,
Lady Sahib.
1211
01:24:00,135 --> 01:24:03,344
If we work all night,
we would still not have enough.
1212
01:24:04,573 --> 01:24:06,712
Let me see what I can do.
1213
01:24:19,254 --> 01:24:21,165
Which train did Aalia take?
1214
01:24:23,358 --> 01:24:25,599
The night train, the last train.
1215
01:24:33,469 --> 01:24:35,449
It says there are no survivors.
1216
01:25:11,373 --> 01:25:13,979
- Dickie, the refugees...
- Not now.
1217
01:25:19,014 --> 01:25:20,391
Please leave us.
1218
01:25:25,988 --> 01:25:27,729
This is why Jinnah wouldn't budge.
1219
01:25:28,157 --> 01:25:30,569
He'd already been promised
his Pakistan!
1220
01:25:30,626 --> 01:25:33,197
Why the hell did no one tell me?
1221
01:25:33,462 --> 01:25:35,464
So you could better do yourjob.
1222
01:25:35,531 --> 01:25:39,638
My job? Double-dealing
with men I've come to revere?
1223
01:25:39,702 --> 01:25:41,238
What do you mean, double-dealing?
1224
01:25:41,370 --> 01:25:45,443
You were perfectly honest,
and they gave you their trust,
1225
01:25:45,507 --> 01:25:46,679
as we hoped they would.
1226
01:25:46,742 --> 01:25:49,655
So I could urge them
to your foregone conclusion?
1227
01:25:50,045 --> 01:25:53,322
We have to protect our interests here.
1228
01:25:53,715 --> 01:25:55,456
Churchill can see it.
1229
01:25:55,517 --> 01:25:56,587
See what?
1230
01:25:57,085 --> 01:25:59,087
The future.
1231
01:25:59,254 --> 01:26:02,724
Look at the map.
Look at where the power will lie.
1232
01:26:03,325 --> 01:26:05,396
The Gulf, oil.
1233
01:26:05,961 --> 01:26:11,274
We need to secure our access,
you see, to these huge reserves,
1234
01:26:11,333 --> 01:26:13,609
and block access by others.
1235
01:26:14,169 --> 01:26:19,084
We'll have that security,
courtesy of Pakistan.
1236
01:26:20,309 --> 01:26:23,313
You've divided India for oil?
1237
01:26:23,545 --> 01:26:26,025
For security.
1238
01:26:26,548 --> 01:26:28,687
There's a Soviet empire.
1239
01:26:29,718 --> 01:26:34,360
Stalin needs a warm-water
eastern port.
1240
01:26:34,723 --> 01:26:38,227
He's had his sights set on Karachi.
1241
01:26:38,427 --> 01:26:39,997
He won't get it now.
1242
01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:42,334
Pakistan will be easier to influence
1243
01:26:42,397 --> 01:26:44,536
than an unruly India with
its socialist leanings?
1244
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:46,638
ls that what you imagine?
1245
01:26:46,735 --> 01:26:49,511
It's not my place to imagine.
1246
01:26:49,738 --> 01:26:52,651
You have used me and my family.
1247
01:26:52,708 --> 01:26:56,349
You came here to serve
your king and country
1248
01:26:56,411 --> 01:26:58,448
and you've done so admirably.
1249
01:26:58,514 --> 01:27:02,485
I hear they're promoting you
from Viscount to Earl.
1250
01:27:03,619 --> 01:27:07,396
What about the people whose lives
have been destroyed by this?
1251
01:27:07,456 --> 01:27:08,730
That is unfortunate.
1252
01:27:09,257 --> 01:27:12,534
- Nobody foresaw...
- Blood is on your hands for this.
1253
01:27:12,594 --> 01:27:14,471
But Dickie...
1254
01:27:14,530 --> 01:27:16,669
it's your name on the plan.
1255
01:27:18,100 --> 01:27:21,377
It will always be known
as the Mountbatten Plan.
1256
01:27:25,273 --> 01:27:27,014
Good evening, Your Excellency.
1257
01:28:05,314 --> 01:28:07,157
What the hell is this?
1258
01:28:08,250 --> 01:28:10,093
You said you would protect us.
1259
01:28:12,321 --> 01:28:14,267
You have torn India to pieces.
1260
01:28:22,431 --> 01:28:25,071
- Everyone I loved is dead.
- Kumar...
1261
01:28:25,167 --> 01:28:27,670
ls this the price that we pay
for our freedom?
1262
01:28:28,203 --> 01:28:32,117
I have seen many young men
lose loved ones in the war.
1263
01:28:33,041 --> 01:28:36,045
- And in time...
- You have lost no one, nothing!
1264
01:28:37,245 --> 01:28:40,454
In time, you will go back
to England, untouched.
1265
01:28:41,383 --> 01:28:43,556
You will forget what you have
done here.
1266
01:28:44,052 --> 01:28:44,757
Never.
1267
01:28:49,158 --> 01:28:51,764
I cannot serve you any more, sir.
1268
01:28:52,728 --> 01:28:56,073
I hope you never know
a moment's peace again.
1269
01:29:12,614 --> 01:29:14,287
We shan't go home.
1270
01:29:15,584 --> 01:29:18,360
After the transfer of power,
we'll stay on.
1271
01:29:19,054 --> 01:29:21,091
We must.
1272
01:29:21,256 --> 01:29:23,532
We'll do everything we can.
1273
01:29:24,593 --> 01:29:27,233
This tragedy was not of your making.
1274
01:29:59,294 --> 01:30:01,274
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1275
01:30:01,396 --> 01:30:02,773
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1276
01:30:03,031 --> 01:30:04,567
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1277
01:30:04,633 --> 01:30:06,408
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1278
01:30:06,468 --> 01:30:08,277
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1279
01:30:08,337 --> 01:30:09,748
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1280
01:30:10,005 --> 01:30:11,450
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1281
01:30:11,540 --> 01:30:13,577
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1282
01:30:13,642 --> 01:30:15,246
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1283
01:30:15,344 --> 01:30:17,119
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1284
01:30:17,145 --> 01:30:18,317
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1285
01:30:21,049 --> 01:30:22,460
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1286
01:30:24,119 --> 01:30:25,723
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1287
01:30:26,221 --> 01:30:28,360
The gate of freedom is open in India
1288
01:30:28,423 --> 01:30:31,267
as thousands of Hindus in New Delhi
swarm the streets,
1289
01:30:31,326 --> 01:30:34,796
awaiting their hour of liberation.
1290
01:30:35,163 --> 01:30:38,235
In Karachi, capital of the newly
created Muslim state of Pakistan,
1291
01:30:38,300 --> 01:30:41,611
Lord Louis Mountbatten,
last Viceroy of India,
1292
01:30:41,670 --> 01:30:45,208
arrives to take part in
the official end of British rule.
1293
01:30:54,749 --> 01:30:57,628
I am pleased you can share
in the joyous birth of our nation.
1294
01:30:58,253 --> 01:31:00,563
The impossible dream is a reality.
1295
01:31:00,689 --> 01:31:05,035
It shouldn't be me standing here with
you. It should be Churchill.
1296
01:31:05,594 --> 01:31:08,598
He's the midwife who delivered you
your Pakistan.
1297
01:31:09,364 --> 01:31:13,403
I did what any leader would do
to realise his people's dreams.
1298
01:31:14,569 --> 01:31:17,379
The truth is we've both been used.
1299
01:31:17,606 --> 01:31:19,108
But you got what you wanted.
1300
01:31:19,441 --> 01:31:23,218
I got only half the country I wanted.
1301
01:31:25,480 --> 01:31:28,552
We will always fear for our existence.
1302
01:31:29,784 --> 01:31:33,391
The British, on the other hand,
got everything they were playing for.
1303
01:31:34,022 --> 01:31:36,127
You are the victors here.
1304
01:31:37,759 --> 01:31:40,638
Predicting the future
is a dangerous game.
1305
01:31:41,797 --> 01:31:44,505
I fear there will be no victors here.
1306
01:31:45,166 --> 01:31:46,509
I have a letter
1307
01:31:47,269 --> 01:31:51,547
from President Harry S Truman
of the United States of America.
1308
01:31:52,741 --> 01:31:55,483
Congratulations to Pakistan
1309
01:31:56,278 --> 01:32:00,749
on its emergence among the family
of nations.
1310
01:32:00,816 --> 01:32:05,492
Long years ago we made a tryst
with destiny,
1311
01:32:05,554 --> 01:32:10,299
and now the time comes when
we shall redeem our pledge.
1312
01:32:10,692 --> 01:32:15,505
At the stroke of the midnight hour,
when the world sleeps,
1313
01:32:15,564 --> 01:32:20,343
India will wake to life and freedom.
1314
01:32:21,703 --> 01:32:27,517
Pakistan shall be a secular country,
where all shall be welcome,
1315
01:32:27,576 --> 01:32:31,683
and I assure you that
we shall not be wanting
1316
01:32:32,047 --> 01:32:35,119
in friendly spirit
with our neighbours.
1317
01:32:35,183 --> 01:32:39,757
We have to build the noble mansion
of free India,
1318
01:32:40,021 --> 01:32:43,127
but our freedom is only possible
1319
01:32:43,191 --> 01:32:46,434
because millions have
suffered and sacrificed.
1320
01:32:46,494 --> 01:32:51,136
We pledge to them
to build a free India
1321
01:32:51,199 --> 01:32:54,237
where all her children may flourish.
1322
01:33:10,318 --> 01:33:12,457
Shouldn't we wake Bapuji?
1323
01:33:16,391 --> 01:33:20,271
He's fine, he's sleeping.
He said there's nothing to celebrate.
1324
01:33:32,741 --> 01:33:35,244
One million people become refugees
overnight.
1325
01:33:35,310 --> 01:33:39,053
Carrying their few possessions,
they flee from savagery and butchery
1326
01:33:39,114 --> 01:33:42,425
that has never been exceeded
even in India's stormy history.
1327
01:33:55,230 --> 01:33:58,677
Another two million are preparing
for their trek.
1328
01:34:09,077 --> 01:34:12,058
Many will never reach their new land.
1329
01:34:12,347 --> 01:34:14,486
The refugee problem is immense.
1330
01:34:14,549 --> 01:34:17,689
Smallpox and cholera are reported
from their camps.
1331
01:34:21,523 --> 01:34:23,400
Bibi Harmeet Kaur. ..
1332
01:34:23,491 --> 01:34:26,529
Jahlad Singh...
1333
01:35:07,168 --> 01:35:10,581
We ask for your patience, please.
There is enough food for everyone.
1334
01:35:10,638 --> 01:35:14,609
Please, move.
1335
01:35:18,380 --> 01:35:21,623
- Give to the children.
- Feed the children first.
1336
01:35:22,117 --> 01:35:24,097
Make sure the children...
1337
01:35:24,486 --> 01:35:25,658
Show me.
1338
01:35:28,757 --> 01:35:31,499
They haven't got enough food. Make
sure supplies are getting through.
1339
01:35:31,559 --> 01:35:36,770
Chandan Devi, Ivlandeep Singh,
Faishala Wad...
1340
01:35:53,481 --> 01:35:55,324
Sorry.
1341
01:35:55,383 --> 01:35:56,623
Nehruji.
1342
01:35:58,486 --> 01:36:00,363
Bring back my family.
1343
01:36:00,422 --> 01:36:02,493
I want my family back.
1344
01:36:04,726 --> 01:36:07,969
Forgive me, forgive me.
1345
01:36:30,318 --> 01:36:33,094
Daddy? Daddy?
1346
01:36:33,288 --> 01:36:35,097
Let's not have this.
1347
01:36:35,156 --> 01:36:37,466
Can't let the side down.
1348
01:36:37,525 --> 01:36:39,232
Not in public.
1349
01:36:53,241 --> 01:36:55,243
Some help over here, please.
1350
01:36:57,045 --> 01:36:59,355
My daughter.
My daughter, she is very sick.
1351
01:36:59,414 --> 01:37:03,385
This one is very weak, half-starved.
Jeet, find a stretcher!
1352
01:37:37,419 --> 01:37:40,093
Father's name?
1353
01:37:40,121 --> 01:37:43,125
- My daughter, she is very sick.
- What is your family name?
1354
01:37:43,191 --> 01:37:47,298
Bibi Jind Kaur Bedi,
Machine Mala, one.
1355
01:37:47,429 --> 01:37:48,703
District Jhelum.
1356
01:37:49,164 --> 01:37:52,737
- And your daughter?
- I had a daughter like her.
1357
01:37:53,134 --> 01:37:54,511
A mob took her away.
1358
01:37:55,103 --> 01:37:58,107
I found this girl
on the railway tracks.
1359
01:37:58,173 --> 01:38:02,053
He father pushed her off the train
before everyone was killed.
1360
01:38:02,110 --> 01:38:03,180
So she is a Muslim.
1361
01:38:03,244 --> 01:38:05,019
- She must go to other camp.
- No.
1362
01:38:05,046 --> 01:38:07,492
- She's my daughter now.
- These are rules you have to follovv.
1363
01:38:07,549 --> 01:38:11,554
We all suffer the same way, no?
Please try to understand.
1364
01:38:11,619 --> 01:38:13,724
- I can't allow it!
- Please try.
1365
01:38:13,989 --> 01:38:18,233
Please try to understand, beta.
She's my daughter now.
1366
01:38:21,062 --> 01:38:23,167
J eet? J eet?
1367
01:38:35,477 --> 01:38:37,753
Please try to understand
1368
01:38:46,421 --> 01:38:47,593
Jeet?
1369
01:38:48,056 --> 01:38:49,364
Jeet Kumar?
1370
01:38:50,058 --> 01:38:52,129
Jeet?
1371
01:38:54,595 --> 01:38:55,630
Jeet?
1372
01:38:55,697 --> 01:38:59,577
He)’, SYOP, please!
1373
01:39:01,569 --> 01:39:03,412
Jeet?
1374
01:39:04,339 --> 01:39:06,376
Sorry, no, ma'am.
1375
01:39:16,484 --> 01:39:17,656
Aalia?
1376
01:39:17,685 --> 01:39:21,462
- Narinder Singh...
- Aalia Noor? Aalia Noor?
1377
01:39:21,522 --> 01:39:24,230
- Go back to line.
- Noor, Aalia.
1378
01:39:24,292 --> 01:39:27,205
Sir, let me assure you,
we're doing all we can.
1379
01:39:27,261 --> 01:39:30,265
Yes, we will. It's coming.
Darling, water's coming.
1380
01:39:30,331 --> 01:39:34,177
- There's more vvater coming.
- There are more vvater vases coming.
1381
01:39:34,235 --> 01:39:38,240
Novv, for the time being, I would like
all families to stick together.
1382
01:39:41,009 --> 01:39:43,216
Aalia!
1383
01:39:46,314 --> 01:39:48,351
Aalia!
1384
01:39:48,716 --> 01:39:50,218
Jeet!
1385
01:39:50,284 --> 01:39:52,628
- Aalia!
- Jeet!
1386
01:39:53,221 --> 01:39:55,997
Jeet!
1387
01:39:56,190 --> 01:39:58,136
Jeet!
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