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(CROWDS TALKING)
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(MUEZZIN)
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(MUSIC STARTS)
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(WORKERS CHATTING)
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Oi! Jeet! What took you so long?
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(TRUMPET PLAYING SCALES)
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JEET: This is what I imagine
England looks like.
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DULEEP: England is all slums
and bombsites.
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- You know why they're letting this go?
- No.
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The war 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
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can finally take his great-grandmother
back home.
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(THEY LAUGH)
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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 Mr 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 down
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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GUPTAJI: 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 your job?
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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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How else will we step in
when our time comes?
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- (DOG WHINING)
- What's that? Look, Mizzy.
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What can you see?
What can you see?
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MOUNTBATTEN: 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.
How 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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(BAGPIPES AND DRUMS PLAYING)
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(MUSIC STOPS)
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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 Ismay,
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 Whitehall's ousted you.
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- Sir? One photo, sir?
- I was always Churchill's man
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and now Atlee'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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500 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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WAVELL: 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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300 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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- Mr Nehru, sir.
- Hm.
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Mr 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 Ismay.
- Hello.
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My dear, dear Dickie.
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Panditji, thank you for joining 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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How 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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LADY WAVELL: There are 34
reception rooms, 34 state rooms,
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ten private dining rooms, a cinema.
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EDWINA: 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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(SHE GASPS)
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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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- BOTH: Mm.
- (DOG WHINES)
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The Order of the Garter,
worn 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?
- BOTH: No, sir.
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How much time do we waste
buttoning trousers?
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One just steps into these and...
The whole 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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(WATCH TICKING)
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13 minutes.
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Hm.
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We'll do better next time.
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I, 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 law.
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May God be my guide.
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(BUGLES PLAY FANFARE)
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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 own.
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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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ON RADIO: 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 Mountbattens
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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(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS)
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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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EDWINA: 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.
247
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what we cannot change.
248
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But we can change a lot, Dickie.
249
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We really can,
and we absolutely have to.
250
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India's problems are not just political.
They are social and economic.
251
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Almost half the babies born here
die before they're five.
252
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That cannot be the legacy the British
leave India after three centuries.
253
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We have enough time
to improve the infrastructure
254
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- so that when we leave...
- That is not why we're here.
255
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- Yes.
- You'll wear yourself out.
256
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You mean I'll wear you out.
257
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No...
258
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(RECORD ENDS)
259
00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,793
Edwina, I have the governors
arriving from the provinces.
260
00:17:53,876 --> 00:17:56,043
I know. I'm entertaining their wives.
261
00:17:57,460 --> 00:18:00,585
And I'm very grateful
for everything you do.
262
00:18:08,335 --> 00:18:10,668
Miss Hudson, is there something
the matter?
263
00:18:10,751 --> 00:18:15,626
Nothing at all, ma'am, only I do wish
they wouldn't come so close.
264
00:18:17,668 --> 00:18:21,876
Perhaps your very able gifts
would be better used in Surrey.
265
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,085
I beg your pardon, ma'am?
266
00:18:24,168 --> 00:18:26,835
Would you please pack your bags
and go home?
267
00:18:41,085 --> 00:18:44,585
Have you got the papers? I'll need
them for the meeting after this one.
268
00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:46,876
Yes, ma'am.
269
00:18:51,293 --> 00:18:53,460
Miss Noor?
270
00:18:53,543 --> 00:18:56,335
I have a message for you, from home.
271
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Go on.
272
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(HE WHISPERS) I had to see you.
273
00:19:05,626 --> 00:19:08,001
How is your father?
274
00:19:08,085 --> 00:19:11,585
Jeet, what are you doing?
Nothing has changed.
275
00:19:11,668 --> 00:19:14,376
I see you are still unmarried.
276
00:19:14,460 --> 00:19:16,626
I am still promised to another.
277
00:19:21,543 --> 00:19:25,960
I have tried every day for the past
two years to forget you.
278
00:19:26,043 --> 00:19:28,085
Then try harder.
279
00:20:01,210 --> 00:20:04,918
JENKINS: The violence is escalating
day by day.
280
00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:09,085
This hatred between Hindu, Sikh
and Muslim
281
00:20:09,168 --> 00:20:11,501
is poisoning everything we've built.
282
00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:16,085
BURROWS: In Bengal the violence is
compounded by a famine
283
00:20:16,168 --> 00:20:19,876
which the people think we are doing
precious little to relieve.
284
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,710
The sooner we can hand over
to an Indian government...
285
00:20:23,793 --> 00:20:25,293
the better.
286
00:20:25,376 --> 00:20:26,626
But what government?
287
00:20:26,710 --> 00:20:29,460
These wretched Indian leaders
won't agree.
288
00:20:29,543 --> 00:20:33,418
If the Muslims are denied their Pakistan
289
00:20:33,501 --> 00:20:36,210
my province will have all-out civil war.
290
00:20:36,293 --> 00:20:37,751
The same in the Punjab.
291
00:20:37,835 --> 00:20:41,210
The Hindus won't tolerate a Pakistan
they haven't voted for.
292
00:20:41,293 --> 00:20:43,751
Oh, God! Gentlemen...
293
00:20:43,835 --> 00:20:45,918
Our saviour is here.
294
00:20:46,001 --> 00:20:47,251
He walks among us.
295
00:20:47,335 --> 00:20:48,376
Off the record, Pug,
296
00:20:48,460 --> 00:20:51,960
we're not sure Dickie Mountbatten's
the man for this job.
297
00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:56,543
Look, he has amazing ability
to get along with people.
298
00:20:56,626 --> 00:21:01,335
But these Indians are as slippery
as eels.
299
00:21:01,418 --> 00:21:04,418
The Indians have to believe
300
00:21:04,501 --> 00:21:07,585
that whatever the future of India is,
301
00:21:07,668 --> 00:21:09,543
it is their idea.
302
00:21:09,626 --> 00:21:11,543
And trust me,
303
00:21:11,626 --> 00:21:14,168
if anyone can get them to agree,
304
00:21:14,251 --> 00:21:16,085
it's Dickie.
305
00:21:16,168 --> 00:21:20,293
He could charm a vulture off a corpse.
306
00:21:20,376 --> 00:21:23,543
Nothing will stop the violence now, Pug.
307
00:21:23,626 --> 00:21:25,710
It's already far too late.
308
00:21:25,793 --> 00:21:29,668
And if Mountbatten thinks charm
alone can do it, then he's a fool.
309
00:21:29,751 --> 00:21:31,668
Thank you for your candour.
310
00:21:31,751 --> 00:21:35,126
- Your Excellency...
- I know how grave the situation is.
311
00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:37,293
I'm meeting the leaders
and all the maharajas,
312
00:21:37,376 --> 00:21:39,043
who of course have their own fears
313
00:21:39,126 --> 00:21:40,835
about what a transfer of power
will bring.
314
00:21:40,918 --> 00:21:43,043
There is a great deal to do.
315
00:21:43,126 --> 00:21:44,668
I want to hear from all of you.
316
00:21:44,751 --> 00:21:47,043
(WHIRRING)
317
00:21:49,043 --> 00:21:50,585
(MUSICAL INTRO)
318
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,501
The growing conflict between Muslim
and Hindu
319
00:21:57,585 --> 00:21:59,793
has left 40,000 dead.
320
00:21:59,876 --> 00:22:03,668
The new Viceroy arrives in India
321
00:22:03,751 --> 00:22:06,876
amid scenes of terrible death
and destruction.
322
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,126
It would be a disgrace
323
00:22:09,210 --> 00:22:13,626
and an everlasting slur on Britain's
standing in the world
324
00:22:13,710 --> 00:22:20,126
if we were to abandon 400 million
primitive Indians to their fate.
325
00:22:20,210 --> 00:22:22,168
(CROWD SHOUTING)
326
00:22:24,501 --> 00:22:25,960
Do it nicely.
327
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,793
You have to cut neatly.
It has to be neat.
328
00:22:31,876 --> 00:22:33,751
They all have to be the same size.
329
00:22:33,835 --> 00:22:37,376
EWART: This is most irregular.
The staff will not understand.
330
00:22:37,460 --> 00:22:39,585
I want them to know who we are.
331
00:22:46,043 --> 00:22:48,876
Lady Mountbatten.
332
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,085
Your Excellency.
333
00:22:51,168 --> 00:22:53,626
(SPEAKS HINDI)
334
00:22:53,710 --> 00:22:54,918
Aap door!
335
00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:56,501
Get the chickens from the oven now!
336
00:22:56,585 --> 00:23:00,960
Our head English chef left us rather
unexpectedly with Lord Wavell.
337
00:23:01,043 --> 00:23:04,376
We are awaiting his replacement
from England.
338
00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:08,043
Meanwhile, may I present
our acting head chef,
339
00:23:08,126 --> 00:23:10,585
Ram Lal Chandra,
340
00:23:13,001 --> 00:23:16,626
He has been fully trained
in the finest European cuisine
341
00:23:16,710 --> 00:23:19,543
and should meet your requirements
sufficiently.
342
00:23:19,626 --> 00:23:24,626
I do believe we can save the new
English chef the journey.
343
00:23:24,710 --> 00:23:28,210
Mr Chandra will do
a perfectly good job.
344
00:23:28,293 --> 00:23:34,001
That wonderful dinner you served last
night put Claridges to shame.
345
00:23:34,085 --> 00:23:38,710
Lady Sahib, the credit must also
go to my staff
346
00:23:38,793 --> 00:23:42,376
and my sous-chef, Jinnah Abdul Malik.
347
00:23:42,460 --> 00:23:46,001
He prepares a most excellent
Lamb Wellington
348
00:23:46,085 --> 00:23:49,085
and bread and butter pudding
with the finest marmalade.
349
00:23:49,168 --> 00:23:53,585
That's all well and good, but with
your agreement, Chef Chandra,
350
00:23:53,668 --> 00:23:56,501
I'd like to make a few changes.
351
00:23:56,585 --> 00:24:02,210
From now on there'll be more Indians
of all faiths round our table.
352
00:24:02,293 --> 00:24:05,043
Their culinary needs must be waited for.
353
00:24:06,626 --> 00:24:10,043
Many of them eat with their fingers,
Your Excellency.
354
00:24:10,126 --> 00:24:12,960
If that is custom, then it's perfectly
acceptable.
355
00:24:13,043 --> 00:24:17,335
Lady Sahib, many Indians are
vegetarians.
356
00:24:17,418 --> 00:24:20,293
No mutton, no chicken, no game.
357
00:24:20,376 --> 00:24:22,460
(SPEAKS PUNJABI)
358
00:24:24,626 --> 00:24:26,710
Is there something wrong?
359
00:24:26,793 --> 00:24:28,668
What he was saying...
360
00:24:28,751 --> 00:24:30,668
Your Excellency.
361
00:24:33,710 --> 00:24:37,251
It is so fine that you want
to be more inclusive.
362
00:24:37,335 --> 00:24:40,293
We have waited a long time for this day.
363
00:24:41,751 --> 00:24:44,293
I appreciate your understanding.
364
00:24:44,376 --> 00:24:46,960
And your skill.
365
00:24:48,376 --> 00:24:50,710
I need to meet with the governors' wives.
366
00:24:50,793 --> 00:24:53,876
What kind of an example
are you setting, Abdul bir?
367
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,293
Yard.
368
00:24:55,376 --> 00:24:57,501
- Z for...?
- Zebra!
369
00:24:57,585 --> 00:24:59,710
I wish I could communicate with them.
370
00:24:59,793 --> 00:25:01,835
Why don't you try this?
371
00:25:01,918 --> 00:25:04,085
Mera naam Pamela hai.
372
00:25:04,168 --> 00:25:06,793
Er... Mera naam Pamela hai.
373
00:25:06,876 --> 00:25:08,876
(THEY LAUGH)
374
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,293
No Viceroy or members of his family
375
00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:14,751
have ever visited the staff
compound before.
376
00:25:14,835 --> 00:25:18,543
The houses look small
for an entire family.
377
00:25:18,626 --> 00:25:20,001
Where do you live here, Aalia?
378
00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:22,043
I live right there with my father.
379
00:25:22,126 --> 00:25:24,085
Did you go to the school?
380
00:25:24,168 --> 00:25:25,460
No, I grew up in Amritsar.
381
00:25:25,543 --> 00:25:27,876
I went to a ladies' college.
382
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,293
And then events turned unfortunate.
383
00:25:31,376 --> 00:25:34,043
My father lost his eyesight and...
384
00:25:34,126 --> 00:25:35,626
and now I work.
385
00:25:35,710 --> 00:25:37,418
That must be very hard.
386
00:25:37,501 --> 00:25:40,710
Not at all. My work gives me
independence.
387
00:25:40,793 --> 00:25:42,376
That's what my mother says.
388
00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:45,751
She says she didn't know who she was
until she started working
389
00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:47,751
and really she's tireless.
390
00:25:47,835 --> 00:25:50,585
I hardly saw her during the war.
She was so busy.
391
00:25:53,335 --> 00:25:55,710
(INDIAN MUSIC)
392
00:26:27,835 --> 00:26:30,710
Welcome, Jeet, to my son's
engagement party.
393
00:26:30,793 --> 00:26:33,043
You know of course my son, Sanjit.
394
00:26:33,126 --> 00:26:34,585
Of course. Welcome here.
395
00:26:34,668 --> 00:26:38,126
Have you met this wonderful girl
who is going to be his wife, Sunita?
396
00:26:38,210 --> 00:26:41,460
No, we have not formally met yet,
but I am delighted.
397
00:26:41,543 --> 00:26:43,793
- Congratulations to you both.
- Thank you.
398
00:26:45,876 --> 00:26:47,585
Hello, sir.
399
00:26:47,668 --> 00:26:51,668
I hope you will remember me.
I am Jeet Kumar.
400
00:26:52,751 --> 00:26:54,710
Ah, Jeet Kumar.
401
00:26:54,793 --> 00:26:56,501
The little policeman.
402
00:26:56,585 --> 00:26:58,626
(HE LAUGHS)
403
00:26:58,710 --> 00:27:00,543
Barely old enough to tie his shoes.
404
00:27:00,626 --> 00:27:03,418
- Ha, ha! Yes, sir.
- Sit, sit.
405
00:27:03,501 --> 00:27:05,960
It's good to meet you again,
Jeet Kumar.
406
00:27:06,043 --> 00:27:09,668
Remember, you used to read me
Dickens?
407
00:27:09,751 --> 00:27:12,751
Yes, sir. David Copperfield,
408
00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:14,543
Bleak House.
409
00:27:14,626 --> 00:27:16,501
What brings you to Delhi?
410
00:27:16,585 --> 00:27:19,126
I have great expectations.
411
00:27:21,168 --> 00:27:24,210
I am working for Mountbatten sahib.
412
00:27:24,293 --> 00:27:25,876
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
413
00:27:28,293 --> 00:27:30,626
Aalia, I thought you'd never get here.
414
00:27:30,710 --> 00:27:32,043
I was with Lady Pamela.
415
00:27:32,126 --> 00:27:34,460
- What's she like?
- Full of questions.
416
00:27:34,543 --> 00:27:36,501
She's actually interested in us.
417
00:27:36,585 --> 00:27:39,210
She wants to be involved
and improve the school.
418
00:27:39,293 --> 00:27:41,918
Aren't you married yet?
419
00:27:42,001 --> 00:27:45,668
That girl you used to talk to me about,
did she change her mind?
420
00:27:47,418 --> 00:27:48,918
No, sir...
421
00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:50,710
but I live in hope.
422
00:27:50,793 --> 00:27:52,335
Ah.
423
00:27:52,418 --> 00:27:55,043
- Ubba.
- Ah, Aalia.
424
00:27:55,126 --> 00:27:57,168
Do you remember Jeet Kumar?
425
00:27:57,251 --> 00:27:58,918
Yes, Ubba.
426
00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:01,168
My daughter too is still unmarried
427
00:28:01,251 --> 00:28:04,418
but her young man, Asif,
will soon be back.
428
00:28:04,501 --> 00:28:09,376
He has been in Europe all this time,
fighting in the British army.
429
00:28:09,460 --> 00:28:11,918
As soon as he returns
we will have the wedding.
430
00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:15,960
This is Aalia's poor mother's
dying wish.
431
00:28:16,043 --> 00:28:17,543
She chose you a good man.
432
00:28:17,626 --> 00:28:20,126
- Don't you think, Aalia?
- Yes, Ubba.
433
00:28:21,210 --> 00:28:24,126
We must go now. It's late. Come.
434
00:28:24,210 --> 00:28:26,960
Come, my friend. I'll walk you home.
435
00:28:27,043 --> 00:28:30,210
You stay, celebrate with your friend.
436
00:28:30,293 --> 00:28:33,418
- Good night, sir.
- Good night, Jeet Kumar.
437
00:28:35,543 --> 00:28:36,876
Jeet?
438
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,501
That prison took away my sight.
439
00:28:41,585 --> 00:28:44,668
It could have taken away my dignity too.
440
00:28:44,751 --> 00:28:47,210
You made sure it did not.
441
00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:50,043
I'm grateful.
442
00:28:55,793 --> 00:28:59,668
I'll always be grateful
for your care for my father.
443
00:28:59,751 --> 00:29:02,418
There you are! Come on.
444
00:29:02,501 --> 00:29:04,793
Let's show them how we do things
in Punjab.
445
00:29:08,126 --> 00:29:10,293
(SINGING)
446
00:29:31,876 --> 00:29:33,835
What harm is in a dance?
447
00:29:36,751 --> 00:29:39,960
Oi, sala. She doesn't want to dance.
448
00:29:40,043 --> 00:29:41,918
Watch what you're doing.
449
00:29:43,001 --> 00:29:44,085
(MUSIC STOPS)
450
00:29:44,168 --> 00:29:46,876
He wasn't doing anything. It's fine.
451
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,376
You dance with your own kind.
452
00:29:49,460 --> 00:29:51,710
- My own kind?
- MAN: Calm down.
453
00:29:51,793 --> 00:29:54,501
Have some respect.
454
00:29:54,585 --> 00:29:57,543
Since when does a Mussalman
tell us what to do?
455
00:29:57,626 --> 00:30:00,418
(SHOUTING)
456
00:30:01,501 --> 00:30:04,001
Come, come, come.
457
00:30:04,085 --> 00:30:05,543
Shake now.
458
00:30:05,626 --> 00:30:07,876
Musicians, please...
459
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,543
(MUSIC STARTS UP AGAIN)
460
00:30:42,293 --> 00:30:43,918
It's three o'clock in the morning.
461
00:30:45,626 --> 00:30:47,335
Come to bed.
462
00:30:47,418 --> 00:30:49,293
Your family tree can wait.
463
00:30:49,376 --> 00:30:52,126
Edwina, I wasn't...
464
00:30:52,210 --> 00:30:54,668
I'm reading the governors' reports.
465
00:30:55,793 --> 00:30:57,460
Very unpleasant.
466
00:30:57,543 --> 00:31:00,168
I fear a migraine looms.
467
00:31:00,251 --> 00:31:03,793
- Did you take one of your pills?
- They are not working.
468
00:31:03,876 --> 00:31:06,210
Nothing works. It's just...
469
00:31:09,418 --> 00:31:12,376
Jenkins' report on Punjab is the worst.
470
00:31:15,126 --> 00:31:18,043
The more I discover here, the more...
471
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:19,626
depressing it is.
472
00:31:19,710 --> 00:31:23,251
The real lesson of the day is that
our time frame for exiting won't work.
473
00:31:23,335 --> 00:31:25,168
We have to act more quickly
than I thought.
474
00:31:25,251 --> 00:31:27,585
Dickie...
475
00:31:27,668 --> 00:31:29,168
this needs time.
476
00:31:29,251 --> 00:31:31,876
The longer we stay, the more we risk
further violence.
477
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,335
We haven't the means or the manpower
to keep the peace.
478
00:31:34,418 --> 00:31:37,251
Don't rush.
479
00:31:37,335 --> 00:31:39,293
Seriously.
480
00:31:39,376 --> 00:31:41,501
This is why you're terrible at chess.
481
00:31:45,501 --> 00:31:48,001
Pug believes that Pakistan is inevitable.
482
00:31:48,085 --> 00:31:51,668
He thinks I should meet Jinnah first
to understand why.
483
00:31:52,876 --> 00:31:58,168
Nehru has offered you
a very precious thing.
484
00:31:58,251 --> 00:32:00,293
Friendship.
485
00:32:00,376 --> 00:32:02,460
Why don't you talk with him first?
486
00:32:02,543 --> 00:32:06,585
Now, we want to find
the best possible solution.
487
00:32:06,668 --> 00:32:10,710
Congress will not contemplate
dividing our Mother India.
488
00:32:10,793 --> 00:32:14,460
It would make a mockery of everything
that we have striven for
489
00:32:14,543 --> 00:32:17,335
and it would break Gandhiji's heart.
490
00:32:17,418 --> 00:32:19,460
Then how are we to keep the peace?
491
00:32:19,543 --> 00:32:22,626
You want us to quit India,
but how can we leave
492
00:32:22,710 --> 00:32:25,085
when you can't agree on what
your future should be?
493
00:32:25,168 --> 00:32:28,210
Are you blaming us
for the situation here?
494
00:32:28,293 --> 00:32:32,585
I'm not blaming anyone, but at all costs
we must avoid a civil war.
495
00:32:32,668 --> 00:32:36,793
Forgive me, but this is the result of
British policy.
496
00:32:36,876 --> 00:32:39,210
You have done everything
497
00:32:39,293 --> 00:32:42,210
to foster hatred between
our different communities.
498
00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:46,960
Separate schools, textbooks, elections.
499
00:32:47,043 --> 00:32:49,376
That was always your policy,
500
00:32:49,460 --> 00:32:52,001
divide and rule.
501
00:32:52,085 --> 00:32:57,210
So now you have divided us,
you ask me for a solution.
502
00:32:57,293 --> 00:32:59,918
"Without peace,
503
00:33:00,001 --> 00:33:02,501
"all other dreams vanish
504
00:33:02,585 --> 00:33:04,335
"and are reduced to ashes."
505
00:33:07,585 --> 00:33:09,251
You went on to say
506
00:33:09,335 --> 00:33:15,501
that the only alternative to co-existence
is co-destruction.
507
00:33:15,585 --> 00:33:20,793
But I'm really only here to ask you
to pass on a message.
508
00:33:20,876 --> 00:33:24,835
Your sister very kindly offered
to show me round Congress.
509
00:33:24,918 --> 00:33:28,585
Please, would you tell her
I'd be honoured to accept?
510
00:33:28,668 --> 00:33:30,043
Gladly.
511
00:33:37,626 --> 00:33:41,085
Your wife is very well read.
512
00:33:41,168 --> 00:33:42,585
Yes.
513
00:33:42,668 --> 00:33:46,793
The irony is, of course, that she's far
more of a political animal than I am.
514
00:33:46,876 --> 00:33:49,751
She's an idealist,
tends to the left. I'm...
515
00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:52,335
more of a military man.
516
00:33:52,418 --> 00:33:54,501
What are your orders here?
517
00:33:54,585 --> 00:34:00,626
To bring independence to India
as smoothly as is possible.
518
00:34:00,710 --> 00:34:04,001
But what is that India?
What will it be?
519
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:07,043
India is her people,
520
00:34:07,126 --> 00:34:09,751
individual men and women
521
00:34:09,835 --> 00:34:12,876
held together by indivisible threads.
522
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,918
Our spirit can never be beaten.
523
00:34:16,001 --> 00:34:20,501
Through all the years of your empire,
it has only grown stronger.
524
00:34:20,585 --> 00:34:24,043
We belong together, in a secular...
525
00:34:24,126 --> 00:34:27,085
This is what our fathers fought for.
526
00:34:27,168 --> 00:34:30,668
I'm so happy that we're here
to witness it.
527
00:34:30,751 --> 00:34:35,710
(WHISPERS) What is the first thing
you'll do when India becomes free?
528
00:34:35,793 --> 00:34:39,918
I'm going to climb to the top of
the dome of Viceroy's House
529
00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:41,543
and scream for joy.
530
00:34:41,626 --> 00:34:43,418
And you?
531
00:34:45,793 --> 00:34:47,960
I'm going to marry you.
532
00:34:50,835 --> 00:34:53,043
How can that ever happen?
533
00:34:53,126 --> 00:34:55,335
You are so courageous.
534
00:34:56,585 --> 00:34:59,001
You are the bravest woman I know.
535
00:35:00,710 --> 00:35:02,751
Don't run from what is true.
536
00:35:05,918 --> 00:35:09,543
What do you personally think?
537
00:35:13,793 --> 00:35:16,251
To divide India would be a tragedy.
538
00:35:16,335 --> 00:35:20,751
Then please, talk to Jinnah.
539
00:35:22,251 --> 00:35:24,960
This is quite a new sensation.
540
00:35:25,043 --> 00:35:26,543
What is?
541
00:35:26,626 --> 00:35:28,835
Trusting the Viceroy.
542
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:35,085
I've spent nine years of my life
in British jails,
543
00:35:35,168 --> 00:35:38,335
but I believe in your sincerity, Dickie,
544
00:35:38,418 --> 00:35:41,793
and I believe that you love my country.
545
00:35:42,876 --> 00:35:45,876
Don't let Jinnah persuade you
to tear it in two.
546
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:22,918
Ubba?
547
00:36:23,001 --> 00:36:24,460
I have brought someone to see you.
548
00:36:24,543 --> 00:36:26,460
Aalia, where have you been?
549
00:36:26,543 --> 00:36:30,085
Ubba, here is Jeet Kumar.
550
00:36:30,168 --> 00:36:32,126
- Hello, sir.
- Hello.
551
00:36:32,210 --> 00:36:34,126
We have something important
to speak...
552
00:36:34,210 --> 00:36:35,460
Later, later.
553
00:36:35,543 --> 00:36:38,335
You will never guess who is here.
554
00:36:41,376 --> 00:36:42,751
Aalia.
555
00:36:42,835 --> 00:36:44,876
- Asif?
- As-Salaam-Alaikum.
556
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,710
Wa-Alaikum-Salaam.
557
00:36:50,126 --> 00:36:52,960
I was so worried that you wouldn't
recognise me.
558
00:36:53,043 --> 00:36:55,168
It's been too long.
559
00:36:55,251 --> 00:36:58,918
I thought the British Army
would never let us leave.
560
00:36:59,001 --> 00:37:01,376
We were the last regiment
to be demobbed.
561
00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:03,876
Finally I feel the war is over.
562
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,876
Asif, this is Jeet Kumar,
my old friend from Lahore.
563
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,501
Aalia, can you believe, Asif's working
with Jinnah sahib?
564
00:37:12,585 --> 00:37:14,126
Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
565
00:37:14,210 --> 00:37:16,501
Only as his driver and aide.
566
00:37:16,585 --> 00:37:19,126
I'm aiming to serve him however I can.
567
00:37:19,210 --> 00:37:21,960
Asif, tell Mr Jinnah,
568
00:37:22,043 --> 00:37:24,960
many Muslims also fought for India.
569
00:37:25,043 --> 00:37:27,418
We don't want a separate country.
570
00:37:27,501 --> 00:37:32,043
- ASIF: Jinnah sahib is a visionary, sir.
- He is a troublemaker.
571
00:37:32,126 --> 00:37:35,668
ASIF: He's the only one
speaking for us.
572
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,210
- Mr Jinnah...
- Mr Jinnah...
573
00:37:48,293 --> 00:37:51,251
Spokesman for a large group of
India's Mohammedans
574
00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:54,960
is the leader of the All-India Muslim
League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
575
00:37:55,043 --> 00:37:57,668
In direct conflict with the Congress
party's request
576
00:37:57,751 --> 00:37:59,126
for national independence...
577
00:37:59,210 --> 00:38:01,668
Pakistan Zindabad!
578
00:38:01,751 --> 00:38:05,210
he has demanded that Britain create
a separate and independent state
579
00:38:05,293 --> 00:38:08,293
out of those provinces in which
Muslims predominate.
580
00:38:10,710 --> 00:38:12,418
JINNAH: We are also looking
to the future.
581
00:38:12,501 --> 00:38:15,751
I learned this when I visited
the ancient spires of Cambridge.
582
00:38:15,835 --> 00:38:19,918
MOUNTBATTEN: Oh, yes, a haven
for historians.
583
00:38:20,001 --> 00:38:22,251
Cambridge also creates visionaries.
584
00:38:22,335 --> 00:38:24,626
Such as your old friend Mr Nehru.
585
00:38:24,710 --> 00:38:29,876
A little after Mr Nehru's time, in 1933,
a group of Cambridge students
586
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,168
came up with a truly magnificent
original idea.
587
00:38:33,251 --> 00:38:34,501
And what was that?
588
00:38:34,585 --> 00:38:36,710
Pakistan.
589
00:38:36,793 --> 00:38:38,460
The land of the pure.
590
00:38:39,626 --> 00:38:41,751
Muslims do not want to be reduced
591
00:38:41,835 --> 00:38:44,543
to the unequal position of negroes
in America.
592
00:38:44,626 --> 00:38:48,043
I assure you Muslims would never be
treated as second-class citizens.
593
00:38:48,126 --> 00:38:51,418
But we are a minority of one to four.
How can you guarantee that?
594
00:38:51,501 --> 00:38:53,210
If you engage with the other leaders,
595
00:38:53,293 --> 00:38:56,543
constitutional protection for
Muslim citizens can be secured.
596
00:38:56,626 --> 00:39:00,251
It is the other leaders who refuse
to engage with me.
597
00:39:01,668 --> 00:39:04,001
I already have the solution.
598
00:39:04,085 --> 00:39:07,835
The creation of an Islamic country,
Pakistan.
599
00:39:14,668 --> 00:39:19,501
Could you really see India cut in half?
600
00:39:19,585 --> 00:39:23,168
Sometimes surgery can save
the patient.
601
00:39:24,668 --> 00:39:27,501
Where do you propose
to make the incision?
602
00:39:27,585 --> 00:39:30,793
Pakistan will include all the states
that have a Muslim majority.
603
00:39:30,876 --> 00:39:33,585
But what about those states
where the numbers are equal?
604
00:39:33,668 --> 00:39:36,001
The Punjab, Bengal,
what do we do there?
605
00:39:36,085 --> 00:39:38,418
Include them in Pakistan.
606
00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:42,418
The ideals of Islam have taught us
democracy and justice.
607
00:39:42,501 --> 00:39:45,668
Our Hindu and Sikh citizens will be
able to worship
608
00:39:45,751 --> 00:39:47,668
and to vote as they please,
609
00:39:47,751 --> 00:39:51,085
but we Muslims will be protected.
610
00:39:51,168 --> 00:39:52,918
We will be in a majority.
611
00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:57,001
Perhaps there was a time when
I believed
612
00:39:57,085 --> 00:40:00,335
our interests could be secured
within a united India,
613
00:40:00,418 --> 00:40:02,543
but that was long ago.
614
00:40:04,335 --> 00:40:07,918
Nehru and Gandhi have shown
no respect for me or my views,
615
00:40:08,001 --> 00:40:10,751
so how can I trust them to respect
the views of my fellow Muslims?
616
00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:16,543
Look at this branch of my family tree.
617
00:40:16,626 --> 00:40:20,251
See how it withers with
no new shoots.
618
00:40:20,335 --> 00:40:22,460
That's my Uncle Nicholas.
619
00:40:22,543 --> 00:40:24,418
He was Tsar of Russia.
620
00:40:24,501 --> 00:40:29,918
He and his entire family and staff
bayoneted, set on fire,
621
00:40:30,001 --> 00:40:33,085
in order to create someone's utopia.
622
00:40:33,168 --> 00:40:35,418
New nations are rarely born in peace.
623
00:40:35,501 --> 00:40:40,126
But to yoke Hindus and Muslims
together in one unequal state
624
00:40:40,210 --> 00:40:42,876
is a recipe for the very bloodshed
you want to avoid.
625
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,418
United...
626
00:40:45,918 --> 00:40:49,043
you are one fifth of
the world's population.
627
00:40:49,126 --> 00:40:52,585
India would be the greatest power
in all Asia.
628
00:40:52,668 --> 00:40:55,043
India has never been a true nation.
629
00:40:56,251 --> 00:40:58,501
It only looks that way on a map.
630
00:40:58,585 --> 00:41:01,251
The British divided Ireland
to maintain peace.
631
00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:05,293
They are dividing Palestine.
632
00:41:05,376 --> 00:41:08,126
They must do the same here.
633
00:41:08,210 --> 00:41:10,126
I have heard with my own ears.
634
00:41:10,210 --> 00:41:13,293
Jinnah sahib said he will cut India
in half.
635
00:41:14,751 --> 00:41:16,251
- He will give us Pakistan.
- Yes.
636
00:41:16,335 --> 00:41:18,418
No, no, no, no, no.
That cannot happen.
637
00:41:18,501 --> 00:41:21,668
- Why can't it happen?
- Gandhiji said over his dead body.
638
00:41:21,751 --> 00:41:23,501
He would not lie.
639
00:41:23,585 --> 00:41:25,918
Pakistan Zindabad.
640
00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:29,043
- Pakistan Zindabad.
- Stop! Stop!
641
00:41:29,126 --> 00:41:31,210
(CHANTING CONTINUES)
642
00:41:31,293 --> 00:41:33,085
Stop, brothers!
643
00:41:33,168 --> 00:41:35,626
Stop, brothers! Stop!
644
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:38,418
The British have controlled India
this past 300 years
645
00:41:38,501 --> 00:41:41,335
by making sure we fight amongst
ourselves just like this.
646
00:41:41,418 --> 00:41:42,751
Guptaji...
647
00:41:42,835 --> 00:41:45,668
No, Mohsin, do not allow this poison
to enter our thoughts.
648
00:41:45,751 --> 00:41:48,793
- Guptaji, Pakistan...
- Gentlemen!
649
00:41:48,876 --> 00:41:52,126
Whatever is going on
in those rooms upstairs
650
00:41:52,210 --> 00:41:54,335
is none of your business.
651
00:41:54,418 --> 00:41:56,293
It's 5.45.
652
00:41:56,376 --> 00:41:58,376
Dinner is now running late.
653
00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:01,335
All of you, jaldi, jaldi.
654
00:42:08,335 --> 00:42:11,460
Your family are from the Punjab,
aren't they?
655
00:42:11,543 --> 00:42:13,501
Yes, sir, they are.
656
00:42:13,585 --> 00:42:18,168
In my village, I have five sisters,
13 nieces and nine nephews.
657
00:42:18,251 --> 00:42:20,501
Duleep Singh, sir, his family
are our neighbours.
658
00:42:20,585 --> 00:42:23,210
Do you have Muslim neighbours too?
659
00:42:23,293 --> 00:42:24,626
Of course, sir.
660
00:42:24,710 --> 00:42:26,793
All the children play together.
661
00:42:26,876 --> 00:42:30,835
They celebrate Diwali with us,
we celebrate Eid with them.
662
00:42:30,918 --> 00:42:33,751
Sometimes there is even
marriage between us.
663
00:42:36,835 --> 00:42:38,251
Are you married?
664
00:42:38,335 --> 00:42:40,418
No, sir.
665
00:42:40,501 --> 00:42:43,376
I do not know if it is in my destiny.
666
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:45,001
My mother dreams of it.
667
00:42:45,085 --> 00:42:46,168
And your father?
668
00:42:52,043 --> 00:42:53,543
He died, sir.
669
00:42:56,543 --> 00:42:57,960
When I was a child.
670
00:42:58,043 --> 00:43:02,751
Killed by the British at
the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
671
00:43:15,418 --> 00:43:17,210
(GREETING IN HINDI)
672
00:43:23,293 --> 00:43:25,085
Namaste, Bapuji,
673
00:43:29,376 --> 00:43:31,418
It is a great honour to meet you, Bapu.
674
00:43:42,835 --> 00:43:44,960
(REPORTERS CALLING OUT)
675
00:43:45,043 --> 00:43:47,460
- This way, sir.
- Over here, please, sir.
676
00:43:56,460 --> 00:44:00,251
GHANDHI: We Indians have
always marched, campaigned
677
00:44:00,335 --> 00:44:04,751
and fasted together,
regardless of our creed or class.
678
00:44:04,835 --> 00:44:10,168
For so long we have been united
in our opposition to one oppressor.
679
00:44:10,251 --> 00:44:12,126
And now we are leaving.
680
00:44:13,918 --> 00:44:19,001
It seems freedom, although
longed for... is a fearful thing.
681
00:44:19,085 --> 00:44:22,710
And with fear comes violence.
It's contagious.
682
00:44:24,126 --> 00:44:26,585
But courage is even more contagious.
683
00:44:26,668 --> 00:44:28,710
(CHUCKLING)
684
00:44:32,126 --> 00:44:34,960
Shall I tell you what the solution is?
685
00:44:39,668 --> 00:44:44,585
Jinnah should be asked
to form the first government.
686
00:44:44,668 --> 00:44:46,835
Of independent India?
687
00:44:51,585 --> 00:44:57,126
Congress must be prepared to accept
the leadership of the Muslim League
688
00:44:57,210 --> 00:45:01,710
if, by so doing, they ensure
the unity of our country.
689
00:45:01,793 --> 00:45:05,418
You would give the Muslims the baby
rather than carving it up?
690
00:45:05,501 --> 00:45:07,293
But that's...
691
00:45:09,710 --> 00:45:10,960
That's splendidly bold.
692
00:45:11,043 --> 00:45:14,251
Would Congress ever be induced
to accept it?
693
00:45:14,335 --> 00:45:15,501
Would Jinnah?
694
00:45:15,585 --> 00:45:18,751
We must rekindle the lamp
of neighbourliness
695
00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:22,543
between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
696
00:45:22,626 --> 00:45:26,251
You give me hope that reason
will prevail.
697
00:45:26,335 --> 00:45:28,460
What we need is not reason.
698
00:45:29,626 --> 00:45:32,543
We need a far greater force.
699
00:45:33,751 --> 00:45:37,960
A force that politicians
seldom care to mention.
700
00:45:38,043 --> 00:45:39,751
Love?
701
00:45:39,835 --> 00:45:41,626
Precisely.
702
00:45:41,710 --> 00:45:42,710
(HE CHUCKLES)
703
00:45:42,793 --> 00:45:45,585
I hope you will honour me
with sharing my food.
704
00:45:45,668 --> 00:45:47,293
This is goat's curd, my favourite.
705
00:45:47,376 --> 00:45:48,668
- Is it?
- You must try this.
706
00:45:48,751 --> 00:45:50,043
- No...
- I insist.
707
00:45:50,126 --> 00:45:51,293
May I have a spoon, please?
708
00:45:51,376 --> 00:45:55,043
You must try this.
This is not cow's milk.
709
00:45:55,126 --> 00:45:56,960
Wish me luck.
710
00:46:00,710 --> 00:46:03,043
Delicious, isn't it?
711
00:46:03,126 --> 00:46:05,835
Would you like to try yourself?
712
00:46:05,918 --> 00:46:08,376
(CONVERSATION GROWS FAINTER)
713
00:46:08,460 --> 00:46:11,168
I think it's what you'd call
an acquired taste...
714
00:46:15,710 --> 00:46:18,835
Did you tell Asif it was too late for him?
715
00:46:18,918 --> 00:46:20,335
How could I?
716
00:46:22,210 --> 00:46:23,710
(SHE SIGHS)
717
00:46:23,793 --> 00:46:26,293
It's the truth.
718
00:46:26,376 --> 00:46:29,335
My father has lost everything.
719
00:46:29,418 --> 00:46:31,751
His wife, his sight.
720
00:46:34,668 --> 00:46:36,626
He's a proud man,
721
00:46:36,710 --> 00:46:39,001
unable to work, dependent on me.
722
00:46:41,210 --> 00:46:46,460
Before Asif arrived, I'd forgotten what
it was like to see him really smile.
723
00:46:46,543 --> 00:46:49,293
I have always made your father smile.
724
00:46:49,376 --> 00:46:51,210
And you too.
725
00:46:51,293 --> 00:46:53,793
Aalia? Are you all right?
726
00:46:53,876 --> 00:46:55,668
Yes, ma'am.
727
00:47:07,001 --> 00:47:11,085
GRADY: The Viceroy certainly knows
how to throw a party.
728
00:47:11,168 --> 00:47:12,626
Your Excellency.
729
00:47:12,710 --> 00:47:14,376
Mr Jinnah, welcome.
730
00:47:14,460 --> 00:47:17,335
May I present Mr Henry F Grady,
the American ambassador.
731
00:47:17,418 --> 00:47:18,626
Your Excellencies.
732
00:47:18,710 --> 00:47:20,460
Welcome, Mr Ambassador.
733
00:47:20,543 --> 00:47:24,751
Ambassador to one country or to two?
The world can't wait to find out.
734
00:47:24,835 --> 00:47:27,585
The answer may be in the hands
of Mr Jinnah.
735
00:47:27,668 --> 00:47:32,335
It must feel pretty galling for you
to be giving all of this back.
736
00:47:32,418 --> 00:47:34,043
Not at all.
737
00:47:34,126 --> 00:47:35,835
Well, it is high time.
738
00:47:35,918 --> 00:47:38,001
Aalia...
739
00:47:38,085 --> 00:47:40,293
imagine life in Pakistan.
740
00:47:40,376 --> 00:47:42,293
No prejudice, no tension.
741
00:47:42,376 --> 00:47:44,876
It's a nation our children
will be proud of.
742
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,085
We were born in India.
743
00:47:47,168 --> 00:47:50,793
And our parents and all our ancestors
are buried here.
744
00:47:50,876 --> 00:47:53,460
- How can we leave?
- We'll visit.
745
00:47:53,543 --> 00:47:57,293
I'll drive my lovely wife
in Mr Jinnah's car.
746
00:47:57,376 --> 00:47:59,293
Why should we not be happy?
747
00:48:01,626 --> 00:48:06,293
We've both come through hard years
and I've kept you with me, always.
748
00:48:16,085 --> 00:48:17,626
I'm just a schoolgirl here.
749
00:48:18,751 --> 00:48:20,460
And I was just a boy.
750
00:48:22,876 --> 00:48:24,376
But I knew.
751
00:48:27,001 --> 00:48:28,251
Asif.
752
00:48:30,210 --> 00:48:32,335
I am not that girl any more.
753
00:48:36,460 --> 00:48:40,168
I understand this distance
you're keeping.
754
00:48:40,251 --> 00:48:42,876
You must have felt I abandoned you.
755
00:48:46,085 --> 00:48:48,085
But I am here now.
756
00:48:48,168 --> 00:48:49,460
Please...
757
00:48:51,085 --> 00:48:52,376
Give me a chance.
758
00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:54,376
I'll prove I can look after you.
759
00:49:00,085 --> 00:49:02,376
Miss Jinnah, I've been longing
to meet you.
760
00:49:02,460 --> 00:49:03,460
And I you.
761
00:49:03,543 --> 00:49:06,626
Your Excellency... a word.
762
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:08,168
Please excuse me.
763
00:49:09,793 --> 00:49:11,251
Just one moment.
764
00:49:13,585 --> 00:49:15,501
That is not a conversation
I should leave.
765
00:49:15,585 --> 00:49:16,793
This better be good, Pug.
766
00:49:16,876 --> 00:49:18,918
Anything but good.
767
00:49:19,001 --> 00:49:20,918
There's been a massacre in Punjab.
768
00:49:21,001 --> 00:49:23,251
Half of Rawalpindi is on fire.
769
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:25,668
Muslims burned down
Sikh and Hindu houses.
770
00:49:25,751 --> 00:49:29,251
Brutal reprisals have spread
through Muslim streets.
771
00:49:29,335 --> 00:49:31,501
Order the Punjab police out in force.
772
00:49:31,585 --> 00:49:33,835
- We have.
- If this is replicated...
773
00:49:33,918 --> 00:49:37,376
With respect, there are
18,000 towns like this in Punjab.
774
00:49:37,460 --> 00:49:38,960
We don't have the men.
775
00:49:39,043 --> 00:49:40,335
Then call in the Army.
776
00:49:40,418 --> 00:49:43,668
There are barely any
English soldiers left.
777
00:49:43,751 --> 00:49:45,835
The Indians have divided loyalties.
778
00:49:45,918 --> 00:49:50,210
How can we ask Sikhs to fire on
Sikhs, Muslims on Muslims?
779
00:49:50,293 --> 00:49:53,460
I'm telling you, Dickie,
India is a ship on fire.
780
00:49:53,543 --> 00:49:54,793
Daddy, guess what?
781
00:49:54,876 --> 00:49:57,001
- A telegram has come...
- Pamela, do not interrupt!
782
00:49:57,085 --> 00:49:58,876
- From the King.
- Get them round the table.
783
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,043
All the leaders.
784
00:50:03,043 --> 00:50:04,543
Pammy!
785
00:50:04,626 --> 00:50:05,918
(SHE SOBS)
786
00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:07,501
I'm sorry.
787
00:50:07,585 --> 00:50:09,251
Please tell me what it is.
788
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,460
Princess Lilibet is going to marry
Philip.
789
00:50:14,626 --> 00:50:16,126
But that's wonderful.
790
00:50:16,210 --> 00:50:18,085
They want me for a bridesmaid.
791
00:50:18,168 --> 00:50:20,043
That's splendid, Pammy.
792
00:50:20,126 --> 00:50:21,585
(SHE SOBS)
793
00:50:21,668 --> 00:50:25,168
Come on, now. Let's not have this.
Can't let the side down, not in public.
794
00:50:27,460 --> 00:50:28,710
(WHIRRING)
795
00:50:28,793 --> 00:50:31,543
(MUSIC PLAYS)
796
00:50:32,835 --> 00:50:35,876
Following the bad news
of communal fighting in India,
797
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,126
with his wife and daughter, the
Viceroy has been paying a visit
798
00:50:39,210 --> 00:50:41,751
to the north-west frontier and Punjab.
799
00:50:41,835 --> 00:50:45,085
He visited many of the places where
the worst clashes had occurred
800
00:50:45,168 --> 00:50:48,710
and saw for himself the serious extent
of the rioting
801
00:50:48,793 --> 00:50:50,710
and the vast amount of damage done.
802
00:51:31,293 --> 00:51:34,876
Let Jinnah be Prime Minister
of independent India.
803
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,251
Bapuji, it won't work.
804
00:51:37,335 --> 00:51:39,293
Why not?
805
00:51:39,376 --> 00:51:43,710
With the best will in the world,
Jinnah will never agree.
806
00:51:43,793 --> 00:51:46,126
He wouldn't even come to this table.
807
00:51:46,210 --> 00:51:49,126
He said the time for talking is over.
808
00:51:49,210 --> 00:51:51,626
I think it's a very daring idea.
809
00:51:51,710 --> 00:51:54,876
Daring, yes, but feasible?
810
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,626
Jinnah's not a fool, Dickie.
811
00:51:56,710 --> 00:52:00,501
He knows that you can't place
300 million Hindus
812
00:52:00,585 --> 00:52:03,668
under the rule of the Muslim League.
They won't have it.
813
00:52:03,751 --> 00:52:06,085
But if you leaders give him
your support?
814
00:52:06,168 --> 00:52:08,376
This is a democracy.
815
00:52:08,460 --> 00:52:11,210
At the first opportunity,
the people will vote him out.
816
00:52:11,293 --> 00:52:14,460
Which brings us back to square one:
817
00:52:14,543 --> 00:52:18,168
- The Muslim minority and Pakistan.
- NEHRU: I agree.
818
00:52:18,251 --> 00:52:22,543
Why do you all not see,
if we oppose partition,
819
00:52:22,626 --> 00:52:24,835
India remains united.
820
00:52:24,918 --> 00:52:28,293
NEHRU: How many towns
descending into slaughter?
821
00:52:28,376 --> 00:52:31,668
We've tried too long to break
this deadlock.
822
00:52:31,751 --> 00:52:33,960
Singh, Kumar.
823
00:52:41,585 --> 00:52:44,793
The world moves on.
824
00:52:44,876 --> 00:52:47,793
Not as we like it, but it moves.
825
00:52:47,876 --> 00:52:49,751
We will have our independence.
826
00:52:49,835 --> 00:52:51,751
Let Jinnah have his Pakistan.
827
00:52:51,835 --> 00:52:54,710
In five years' time, he will be knocking
at our door
828
00:52:54,793 --> 00:52:57,418
and begging to be part of India again.
829
00:52:57,501 --> 00:53:02,710
It is not possible to divide the heart
and expect it to work.
830
00:53:02,793 --> 00:53:05,251
Gandhiji, how can we reach
an agreement with Jinnah
831
00:53:05,335 --> 00:53:07,210
if you can't agree with Jawahar?
832
00:53:07,293 --> 00:53:10,001
Every moment we debate
brings more violence.
833
00:53:10,085 --> 00:53:15,251
We can concede the provinces
with a clear Muslim majority,
834
00:53:15,335 --> 00:53:18,710
but Jinnah cannot have Punjab
and Bengal.
835
00:53:18,793 --> 00:53:21,543
They have large Hindu and
Sikh populations.
836
00:53:21,626 --> 00:53:27,001
Then we must divide the two provinces
between the two countries.
837
00:53:27,085 --> 00:53:31,918
Half of the Punjab and
Bengal to India,
838
00:53:32,001 --> 00:53:34,960
the other half to Pakistan.
839
00:53:35,043 --> 00:53:36,835
Partition.
840
00:53:36,918 --> 00:53:42,501
And which god among you
decides where the border falls?
841
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,710
You've spoken yourself about
the beauty of compromise.
842
00:54:04,001 --> 00:54:06,418
This compromise will have
beauty, Bapu...
843
00:54:07,585 --> 00:54:09,751
because it will bring peace.
844
00:54:10,835 --> 00:54:13,626
The callouses on my feet,
845
00:54:13,710 --> 00:54:15,418
the years in prison...
846
00:54:17,293 --> 00:54:20,751
the hopes and dreams of our people
847
00:54:20,835 --> 00:54:23,668
were for independence,
848
00:54:23,751 --> 00:54:25,585
not partition.
849
00:54:25,668 --> 00:54:28,626
No one is listening to Gandhiji.
850
00:54:28,710 --> 00:54:31,501
Mountbatten sahib and Nehru
seem to agree.
851
00:54:31,585 --> 00:54:34,460
Pakistan will come to be.
852
00:54:34,543 --> 00:54:36,168
Ah, Allah be praised.
853
00:54:36,251 --> 00:54:38,293
- Pakistan Zindabad.
- Our Pakistan.
854
00:54:38,376 --> 00:54:41,793
Mohsin, our sisters are all in hiding
because of you animals.
855
00:54:41,876 --> 00:54:44,126
You're the animals,
destroying the peace.
856
00:54:44,210 --> 00:54:46,626
GANDHI: All religions are true.
857
00:54:46,710 --> 00:54:49,293
We are brothers with one soul.
858
00:54:51,085 --> 00:54:53,835
To divide us on religious grounds...
859
00:54:53,918 --> 00:54:56,376
is against the will of God.
860
00:54:57,626 --> 00:55:02,960
Division does not create peace.
861
00:55:03,043 --> 00:55:04,501
It creates havoc.
862
00:55:04,585 --> 00:55:08,460
Partition unleashes passions.
863
00:55:08,543 --> 00:55:11,710
It does not dampen them.
864
00:55:11,793 --> 00:55:14,543
We shall tear ourselves asunder
865
00:55:14,626 --> 00:55:17,335
in the womb of the mother
who bears us.
866
00:55:17,418 --> 00:55:20,293
The Viceroy's house is not
for the likes of this.
867
00:55:20,376 --> 00:55:23,251
You are dismissed, both of you.
868
00:55:30,293 --> 00:55:32,210
- Mohsin, no.
- Mohsin.
869
00:55:33,460 --> 00:55:35,251
Get your things.
870
00:55:35,335 --> 00:55:37,793
The guards will escort you
from your quarters.
871
00:55:37,876 --> 00:55:38,960
We are guards.
872
00:55:39,043 --> 00:55:41,376
Us leave? It is you who have
no place here.
873
00:55:41,460 --> 00:55:44,126
One more word,
I'll have you both arrested.
874
00:55:44,210 --> 00:55:47,501
(SHOUTING)
875
00:55:47,585 --> 00:55:51,585
Get them out of here!
Back to work!
876
00:55:51,668 --> 00:55:54,001
Come, let's go, please. Jaldi!
877
00:55:55,085 --> 00:55:56,668
Come on!
878
00:56:05,210 --> 00:56:07,668
It's worse than Glasgow
on a Saturday night.
879
00:56:09,043 --> 00:56:10,418
Thank you, my friend.
880
00:56:12,543 --> 00:56:14,001
Thank you.
881
00:56:17,418 --> 00:56:21,293
What happened with Ewart and the staff?
You were there, were you?
882
00:56:21,376 --> 00:56:23,876
Yes, sir. It was terrible.
883
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,543
I've just seen Pug.
884
00:56:25,626 --> 00:56:27,418
You're going to London with him?
885
00:56:28,710 --> 00:56:31,501
We have to make the best possible
case to the government,
886
00:56:31,585 --> 00:56:35,543
get it to endorse partition and shock
the leaders out of their intransigence
887
00:56:35,626 --> 00:56:37,126
by accelerating the process.
888
00:56:37,210 --> 00:56:38,793
Otherwise the bloodshed will
continue.
889
00:56:38,876 --> 00:56:41,918
So when were you intending to tell me
you'd made your decision on partition?
890
00:56:42,001 --> 00:56:43,418
It's the only way forward.
891
00:56:43,501 --> 00:56:45,501
We've barely been here two months.
892
00:56:45,585 --> 00:56:47,210
And the country is burning.
893
00:56:47,293 --> 00:56:49,626
Dickie, there's no going back
on this decision.
894
00:56:49,710 --> 00:56:53,001
There is no time for indecision.
I must act.
895
00:56:53,085 --> 00:56:57,751
You cannot change tack so hastily.
You are a statesman, not a sailor.
896
00:56:57,835 --> 00:57:00,126
Edwina, people are dying every day!
897
00:57:00,210 --> 00:57:01,710
Murders, rapes, reprisals,
898
00:57:01,793 --> 00:57:04,251
from Calcutta to Bombay,
Amritsar to Kahuta.
899
00:57:04,335 --> 00:57:07,793
Imagine that repeated in every city
and village across India.
900
00:57:07,876 --> 00:57:10,793
How much longer
do you want me to wait?
901
00:57:13,085 --> 00:57:15,126
How can it be getting worse
under us?
902
00:57:15,210 --> 00:57:17,293
Precisely my point.
903
00:57:17,376 --> 00:57:19,251
We have no control.
904
00:57:19,335 --> 00:57:21,210
But a solution is in sight.
905
00:57:21,293 --> 00:57:22,960
But partition?
906
00:57:24,751 --> 00:57:27,960
It may seem a good solution now,
but in the long term...
907
00:57:28,043 --> 00:57:30,918
It's hard enough negotiating
with them, Edwina.
908
00:57:37,376 --> 00:57:39,085
You have my support.
909
00:57:39,168 --> 00:57:41,501
But not your approval.
910
00:57:41,585 --> 00:57:43,501
You don't need my approval.
911
00:57:43,585 --> 00:57:47,043
I have to persuade the prime minister,
Churchill, and the opposition.
912
00:57:47,126 --> 00:57:49,001
Heaven help me if I can't
persuade you.
913
00:57:50,876 --> 00:57:53,293
We came to give India back
her freedom.
914
00:57:54,668 --> 00:57:56,460
Not to tear her apart.
915
00:57:56,543 --> 00:57:58,335
We have no choice.
916
00:57:58,418 --> 00:58:02,543
If we don't transfer power soon,
there may be nothing left to transfer.
917
00:58:10,376 --> 00:58:14,293
The Viceroy arrives in Britain by air,
having returned for consultations
918
00:58:14,376 --> 00:58:18,460
of the utmost importance regarding
the British withdrawal from India.
919
00:58:18,543 --> 00:58:22,460
He can only hope that the Viceroy will
find a solution.
920
00:58:22,543 --> 00:58:25,626
With communal fighting increasing in
violence, especially in the Punjab,
921
00:58:25,710 --> 00:58:28,918
the task of handing over is obviously
a tremendous problem.
922
00:58:29,001 --> 00:58:33,710
Curfews have been imposed
in Lahore and Calcutta,
923
00:58:33,793 --> 00:58:38,918
and large areas of Bengal
and the Punjab remain unsafe.
924
00:58:39,001 --> 00:58:40,043
(SPEAKS HINDI)
925
00:58:40,126 --> 00:58:45,960
Rawalpindi and its surrounding
villages are in a critical state.
926
00:58:46,043 --> 00:58:51,085
We know that some of you
have families in these areas.
927
00:58:51,168 --> 00:58:53,543
They may come to you here.
928
00:58:55,501 --> 00:58:57,668
EDWINA: Basic accommodation
will be found
929
00:58:57,751 --> 00:59:01,460
and food will be rationed
to meet demand.
930
00:59:01,543 --> 00:59:03,960
A hardship fund has been
made available.
931
00:59:04,043 --> 00:59:06,043
(SPEAKING HINDI)
932
00:59:12,126 --> 00:59:14,043
- Pamela?
- I'm here, Aalia.
933
00:59:14,126 --> 00:59:16,626
This child has a very high fever.
934
00:59:16,710 --> 00:59:19,876
Yes, he's dehydrated.
935
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:21,335
(SPEAKS HINDI)
936
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,960
In certain cases,
permission will be given
937
00:59:28,043 --> 00:59:31,585
for you to go and bring
your people back.
938
00:59:31,668 --> 00:59:33,210
I need to get back to our village.
939
00:59:33,293 --> 00:59:36,251
The refugees have told me terrible
things. I need to get home.
940
00:59:36,335 --> 00:59:37,710
Wait.
941
00:59:39,001 --> 00:59:41,418
The violence is caused by uncertainty.
942
00:59:41,501 --> 00:59:44,418
If the British do what Mountbatten says,
943
00:59:44,501 --> 00:59:46,668
he says the violence will stop.
944
00:59:46,751 --> 00:59:49,001
And you believe him?
945
00:59:49,085 --> 00:59:51,668
What country will our village be in?
946
00:59:51,751 --> 00:59:53,585
What if it's Pakistan?
947
00:59:53,668 --> 00:59:57,418
There is a madness taking hold here,
a hatred.
948
00:59:57,501 --> 00:59:59,376
It's soldiers deserting the army,
949
00:59:59,460 --> 01:00:03,460
men from other towns
forming into gangs and militias.
950
01:00:03,543 --> 01:00:05,876
They want our land.
951
01:00:08,376 --> 01:00:10,751
- Well, then, I must go with you.
- No.
952
01:00:10,835 --> 01:00:13,876
I need you to stay here.
953
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,960
What if they've left already?
954
01:00:16,043 --> 01:00:20,335
What if they arrive here and we are gone?
You stay, I'll go.
955
01:00:39,835 --> 01:00:41,043
Have you seen this, sir?
956
01:01:09,376 --> 01:01:12,085
- Ah.
- Welcome home, Daddy.
957
01:01:12,168 --> 01:01:13,918
Thank you, darling.
958
01:01:14,001 --> 01:01:16,793
- How was Westminster?
- Deliciously cool.
959
01:01:16,876 --> 01:01:19,001
The cabinet passed the plan
in the blink of an eye.
960
01:01:19,085 --> 01:01:21,960
We got the green light
to speed up independence.
961
01:01:22,043 --> 01:01:23,043
What about Churchill?
962
01:01:23,126 --> 01:01:26,251
He was quite sanguine.
Accepted the plan.
963
01:01:26,335 --> 01:01:27,918
He was very complimentary.
964
01:01:28,001 --> 01:01:30,585
He pointed out that Dickie has,
in a matter of weeks,
965
01:01:30,668 --> 01:01:34,335
achieved what Wavell and
all the previous Viceroys
966
01:01:34,418 --> 01:01:36,835
failed to achieve in years.
967
01:01:38,251 --> 01:01:43,335
The government and the press
are calling it the Mountbatten Plan.
968
01:01:44,501 --> 01:01:46,043
Well done.
969
01:01:48,793 --> 01:01:51,460
The Mountbatten Plan?
970
01:01:53,251 --> 01:01:55,626
Mr Jinnah, what is your solution
to end the violence?
971
01:01:55,710 --> 01:01:59,210
- Is partition the only way?
- Is Pakistan the answer?
972
01:01:59,293 --> 01:02:02,293
Mr Jinnah, what will you be doing
to stop the escalating violence?
973
01:02:02,376 --> 01:02:04,293
Mr Nehru, a moment, please.
974
01:02:04,376 --> 01:02:08,085
Mr Nehru, do you have the support
of the Indian National Congress?
975
01:02:08,168 --> 01:02:10,585
What is your answer for freedom
in India, please, Mr Nehru?
976
01:02:16,293 --> 01:02:19,168
Now... Why has Gandhi not attended?
977
01:02:19,251 --> 01:02:24,376
He apologises but he cannot assent
to the Mountbatten Plan.
978
01:02:24,460 --> 01:02:26,126
But will he go against it?
979
01:02:26,210 --> 01:02:29,543
- Will he try to speak out, to sabotage...
- Bapuji has informed me
980
01:02:29,626 --> 01:02:32,751
that today is his day of silence.
981
01:02:34,418 --> 01:02:37,960
Why must everything now be rushed?
982
01:02:38,043 --> 01:02:40,751
I wanted all of the Punjab and Bengal.
983
01:02:40,835 --> 01:02:44,835
You expect me to accept
a moth-eaten Pakistan?
984
01:02:44,918 --> 01:02:47,251
You should be grateful.
985
01:02:47,335 --> 01:02:49,751
You've held us to ransom
for long enough.
986
01:02:49,835 --> 01:02:52,585
- Mr Nehru, it is you...
- I am chairing this meeting
987
01:02:52,668 --> 01:02:55,751
and I demand that we respect
one another.
988
01:02:55,835 --> 01:02:59,543
The British cabinet has formally
approved the partition of India.
989
01:02:59,626 --> 01:03:01,585
By the end of this meeting,
it is my intention
990
01:03:01,668 --> 01:03:06,001
that all parties will accept the plan
and our new timeline.
991
01:03:06,085 --> 01:03:07,918
Impossible.
992
01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:09,085
We'll need a week at least
993
01:03:09,168 --> 01:03:11,293
to get formal approval from
the Muslim League.
994
01:03:11,376 --> 01:03:13,460
I can't hold this position for a week.
995
01:03:13,543 --> 01:03:15,251
You've got your Pakistan,
996
01:03:15,335 --> 01:03:17,876
which at one time no one in the world
thought you'd get.
997
01:03:19,668 --> 01:03:24,293
If I don't have your agreement,
this plan will collapse,
998
01:03:24,376 --> 01:03:29,251
and the country that you have conjured
out of thin air will disappear.
999
01:03:32,251 --> 01:03:34,335
What about the borders?
1000
01:03:34,418 --> 01:03:36,293
Who decides?
1001
01:03:36,376 --> 01:03:40,418
And where exactly is this Pakistan
we are signing for?
1002
01:03:40,501 --> 01:03:43,585
The cabinet has appointed
Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a barrister,
1003
01:03:43,668 --> 01:03:45,293
to chair the border commission.
1004
01:03:45,376 --> 01:03:48,501
He will be assisted by members of
the Muslim League and by Congress.
1005
01:03:48,585 --> 01:03:50,710
It will be a wholly impartial process.
1006
01:04:02,335 --> 01:04:06,960
They say, don't they, that tea is
actually cooling in the hot weather?
1007
01:04:07,043 --> 01:04:11,501
- Would you like it cool, sir?
- No, no. No, thank you.
1008
01:04:17,710 --> 01:04:20,251
- Sir Cyril, welcome.
- Your Excellency.
1009
01:04:20,335 --> 01:04:21,543
Good to see you.
1010
01:04:21,626 --> 01:04:23,960
- You know Lord Ismay.
- Everyone knows Pug, sir.
1011
01:04:24,043 --> 01:04:26,501
You've come in the hottest summer
for 75 years,
1012
01:04:26,585 --> 01:04:28,085
114 degrees in the shade.
1013
01:04:28,168 --> 01:04:31,126
- I'll adjust, I'm sure.
- You don't mind if I...
1014
01:04:31,210 --> 01:04:33,043
Now, Atlee's told you of the task.
1015
01:04:33,126 --> 01:04:36,335
Yes, you want a fair decision
on a boundary line
1016
01:04:36,418 --> 01:04:39,876
dividing 90 million Muslims, Sikhs
and Hindus.
1017
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:41,918
MOUNTBATTEN: Quite so.
Tea with milk.
1018
01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:44,335
CYRIL: And you want it by
August 15th.
1019
01:04:44,418 --> 01:04:45,668
Actually, that's one day shy.
1020
01:04:45,751 --> 01:04:48,835
I've agreed to move the date up to
midnight of August 14th
1021
01:04:48,918 --> 01:04:51,126
to satisfy the astrologers.
1022
01:04:51,210 --> 01:04:52,501
That's less than five weeks.
1023
01:04:52,585 --> 01:04:54,543
You'll have a small team working
with you.
1024
01:04:54,626 --> 01:04:57,793
They'll be representing
all the parties concerned.
1025
01:04:57,876 --> 01:05:03,418
We'll provide you with maps,
census figures, geographical data,
1026
01:05:03,501 --> 01:05:06,835
and any other information you require.
1027
01:05:08,210 --> 01:05:11,960
You're asking me to draw a line
through people's houses,
1028
01:05:12,043 --> 01:05:15,168
rice paddies, jute fields...
1029
01:05:15,251 --> 01:05:19,960
Look, I understand.
It's a daunting proposition, yes.
1030
01:05:20,043 --> 01:05:25,210
And we all accept that some anomalies
will be inevitable.
1031
01:05:25,293 --> 01:05:28,251
Radcliffe, how well do you know
Bengal and the Punjab?
1032
01:05:28,335 --> 01:05:31,001
I assumed Pug would have
told you, sir.
1033
01:05:31,085 --> 01:05:33,251
I've never set foot in India in my life.
1034
01:05:37,543 --> 01:05:39,835
What I don't understand is 15 August.
1035
01:05:39,918 --> 01:05:41,626
That's just a few weeks away.
1036
01:05:41,710 --> 01:05:44,960
Why so soon, huh? They were
supposed to leave next year.
1037
01:05:45,043 --> 01:05:47,543
They don't want to be accountable
for the carnage.
1038
01:05:47,626 --> 01:05:50,460
Mountbatten sahib is trying
to prevent carnage.
1039
01:05:50,543 --> 01:05:52,251
That is why he moved the date.
1040
01:05:52,335 --> 01:05:55,210
You listen to his faithful serving boy.
1041
01:05:56,793 --> 01:05:58,501
People need certainty.
1042
01:06:00,251 --> 01:06:01,460
That is his intention.
1043
01:06:01,543 --> 01:06:06,668
Jeet, intentions are one thing.
Actions another.
1044
01:06:06,751 --> 01:06:08,918
The British are like rats
leaving a sinking ship.
1045
01:06:09,001 --> 01:06:14,001
They say the gutters in Lahore
are flowing like rivers of blood.
1046
01:06:14,085 --> 01:06:17,460
People killing each other when
we've lived together for centuries.
1047
01:06:17,543 --> 01:06:19,626
- The army is deserting.
- Listen to me...
1048
01:06:19,710 --> 01:06:22,710
Soldiers keeping their weapons,
groups of militia running wild.
1049
01:06:22,793 --> 01:06:25,626
Listen to me, this is nothing
but a lawless land grab.
1050
01:06:25,710 --> 01:06:28,876
SANJIT: How is Mountbatten sahib
going to stop all the violence?
1051
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,501
Vast mobs have been out
in the streets of Bombay
1052
01:06:31,585 --> 01:06:34,501
during six days of violence that have
included murder,
1053
01:06:34,585 --> 01:06:36,710
as well as wrecking, burning
and looting,
1054
01:06:36,793 --> 01:06:38,168
a question of state boundaries.
1055
01:06:38,251 --> 01:06:41,043
Curfew was one of the methods
adopted in Delhi
1056
01:06:41,126 --> 01:06:44,376
in an attempt to get the communal
fighting under control.
1057
01:06:44,460 --> 01:06:48,835
So one part of the picture shows
empty streets and locked doors.
1058
01:06:48,918 --> 01:06:52,043
The other picture of Delhi shows
mob violence, the looting of shops,
1059
01:06:52,126 --> 01:06:54,876
and the consequent loss of life
and destruction of property.
1060
01:07:07,626 --> 01:07:09,668
(SHOUTING)
1061
01:07:14,626 --> 01:07:15,835
Ubba?
1062
01:07:15,918 --> 01:07:17,126
Ubba!
1063
01:07:17,210 --> 01:07:20,168
(JEET SHOUTS)
Aalia! Wait, wait, wait.
1064
01:07:20,251 --> 01:07:22,293
(SHE COUGHS)
1065
01:07:23,668 --> 01:07:25,501
What happened? Where is Ubba?
1066
01:07:25,585 --> 01:07:27,418
(SPEECH INDISTINCT)
1067
01:07:27,501 --> 01:07:29,668
Where are you, sir? Aalia?
1068
01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:34,126
Cowards!
1069
01:07:35,585 --> 01:07:37,710
Don't you know me?
1070
01:07:37,793 --> 01:07:40,501
Don't you know my father?
1071
01:07:40,585 --> 01:07:41,668
Where's Ubba?
1072
01:07:41,751 --> 01:07:44,710
MOUNTBATTEN: No violence will be
tolerated in Viceroy's House.
1073
01:07:44,793 --> 01:07:49,335
Perpetrators will be dismissed and
jailed, their families told to leave.
1074
01:07:49,418 --> 01:07:51,293
Ubba? Ubba!
1075
01:07:52,751 --> 01:07:56,960
The harshest measures will be taken.
There will be no riot here!
1076
01:07:57,043 --> 01:08:00,168
EDWINA: It's time for us
to come together now.
1077
01:08:00,251 --> 01:08:04,335
What we face is the most significant
moment
1078
01:08:04,418 --> 01:08:07,251
in the history of this sub-continent.
1079
01:08:07,335 --> 01:08:11,126
Our children and our grandchildren
1080
01:08:11,210 --> 01:08:14,376
may one day ask us how we served.
1081
01:08:14,460 --> 01:08:20,126
We must ensure we can be proud
of what we say.
1082
01:08:20,210 --> 01:08:23,793
In less than 30 days now,
India will be divided.
1083
01:08:25,043 --> 01:08:28,960
The partition council has agreed
that the national assets and debt
1084
01:08:29,043 --> 01:08:34,501
will be apportioned 80% to India
and 20% to Pakistan.
1085
01:08:34,585 --> 01:08:38,418
We will be following that same
formula in this great house.
1086
01:08:38,501 --> 01:08:39,918
Finally...
1087
01:08:41,168 --> 01:08:43,251
and I am sorry to say this...
1088
01:08:44,835 --> 01:08:48,126
each one of you must choose which
country will have your allegiance,
1089
01:08:48,210 --> 01:08:49,835
India...
1090
01:08:49,918 --> 01:08:51,126
or Pakistan.
1091
01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:53,293
(HUSHED VOICES)
1092
01:09:04,751 --> 01:09:06,543
WOMAN: Suhara Kapur, India.
1093
01:09:06,626 --> 01:09:08,085
EWART: Next.
1094
01:09:08,168 --> 01:09:09,876
MAN: I, too. Pakistan.
1095
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:11,626
Next.
1096
01:09:13,501 --> 01:09:15,418
Sanjit Gupta.
1097
01:09:15,501 --> 01:09:16,960
India.
1098
01:09:17,043 --> 01:09:18,626
Next.
1099
01:09:18,710 --> 01:09:20,168
Mr Ali.
1100
01:09:20,251 --> 01:09:22,293
Sir, I want to go to Pakistan.
1101
01:09:22,376 --> 01:09:23,835
I wish you well.
1102
01:09:23,918 --> 01:09:28,376
Jeet, what's going to happen to us?
1103
01:09:29,460 --> 01:09:30,960
Come.
1104
01:09:31,043 --> 01:09:32,793
- I'm so scared.
- Come.
1105
01:09:34,418 --> 01:09:38,251
Soup spoons, 15 cases for India,
three cases for Pakistan.
1106
01:09:38,335 --> 01:09:42,418
Teaspoons, 40 cases for India,
ten cases for Pakistan.
1107
01:09:42,501 --> 01:09:46,835
Butter knives, 20 cases for India,
five cases for Pakistan.
1108
01:09:46,918 --> 01:09:48,835
Tuba, India.
1109
01:09:48,918 --> 01:09:50,918
French horn, Pakistan.
1110
01:09:56,001 --> 01:09:59,626
Right, what do the latest reports say?
1111
01:09:59,710 --> 01:10:01,876
Ah, well, that we know about.
1112
01:10:03,376 --> 01:10:05,918
India. Pakistan.
1113
01:10:07,668 --> 01:10:10,210
- India.
- Next!
1114
01:10:13,168 --> 01:10:15,668
Pakistan.
1115
01:10:15,751 --> 01:10:18,085
India. Pakistan.
1116
01:10:20,376 --> 01:10:22,251
India. Pakistan.
1117
01:10:37,001 --> 01:10:38,960
I don't know what to do.
1118
01:10:41,293 --> 01:10:43,793
Your father's a good man.
1119
01:10:43,876 --> 01:10:46,168
He'll understand.
1120
01:10:46,251 --> 01:10:47,585
Aalia.
1121
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,626
We belong together.
1122
01:10:53,418 --> 01:10:54,918
Take this kara.
1123
01:10:56,210 --> 01:10:58,126
It shows our unity.
1124
01:11:01,710 --> 01:11:03,168
I'm scared.
1125
01:11:06,626 --> 01:11:09,001
Wuthering Heights must come to
Pakistan.
1126
01:11:09,085 --> 01:11:12,251
Then Jane Eyre stays here
and all of the Jane Austen.
1127
01:11:12,335 --> 01:11:14,293
India. Pakistan.
1128
01:11:14,376 --> 01:11:17,293
But we can't break the encyclopaedias.
That would be a crime.
1129
01:11:17,376 --> 01:11:22,501
No, 20% comes to Pakistan.
A to E or S to Z?
1130
01:11:22,585 --> 01:11:24,543
- Give me A to E.
- This is absurd.
1131
01:11:26,918 --> 01:11:28,793
Where communities are so mixed
1132
01:11:28,876 --> 01:11:30,960
it is of course impossible to draw
boundaries
1133
01:11:31,043 --> 01:11:34,501
which will segregate Hindus on
the one hand, Muslims on the other.
1134
01:11:34,585 --> 01:11:37,335
Fires raged unchecked in many
places
1135
01:11:37,418 --> 01:11:40,460
while pitched battles continued
between Muslims and Hindus.
1136
01:11:40,543 --> 01:11:43,835
Casualties totalled 3,000 killed
and 8,000 injured.
1137
01:11:43,918 --> 01:11:45,960
Very well. Thank you. Where?
1138
01:12:09,001 --> 01:12:10,501
(SHE SIGHS)
1139
01:12:19,668 --> 01:12:21,918
(SHE SOBS)
1140
01:12:29,793 --> 01:12:32,001
Ubba, are you comfortable?
1141
01:12:32,085 --> 01:12:33,293
Aalia!
1142
01:12:35,710 --> 01:12:39,001
I have to take my father to Lahore.
1143
01:12:39,085 --> 01:12:42,043
Asif has very kindly agreed
to take us to the station.
1144
01:12:42,126 --> 01:12:45,210
My father is my first
responsibility, Jeet.
1145
01:12:45,293 --> 01:12:48,876
- I have to do what's best for him.
- Running away isn't best for him.
1146
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:50,751
I'm trying to keep him alive.
1147
01:12:50,835 --> 01:12:52,460
It's all changed now.
1148
01:12:54,293 --> 01:12:57,793
When people see us, they don't see
Indians any more. We're Muslims.
1149
01:12:57,876 --> 01:13:00,626
Aalia, you are as Indian as I am.
1150
01:13:01,918 --> 01:13:06,043
- India is what we make it.
- Don't make it any harder, please.
1151
01:13:06,126 --> 01:13:09,168
Aalia, please, I am begging you,
don't do this.
1152
01:13:09,251 --> 01:13:10,835
NOOR: Aalia, are you ready, beta?
1153
01:13:10,918 --> 01:13:13,168
- Just a minute, Abba.
- Who's there?
1154
01:13:13,251 --> 01:13:14,543
Jeet Kumar, sir.
1155
01:13:14,626 --> 01:13:17,751
ASIF: We have to go.
Our train leaves at midnight.
1156
01:13:17,835 --> 01:13:21,210
I hear you helped Aalia and Ubba
when the house was set on fire.
1157
01:13:21,293 --> 01:13:23,793
I thank you for everything that you did.
1158
01:13:25,085 --> 01:13:28,710
My mother and brother will be at
the station in Lahore to receive you.
1159
01:13:28,793 --> 01:13:31,876
My home will be your home
just as soon as we're married.
1160
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:35,001
- Tell him. Tell him, Aalia.
- ASIF: Tell me what?
1161
01:13:38,043 --> 01:13:41,960
I know right now
it's the hardest thing to stay,
1162
01:13:42,043 --> 01:13:43,543
but you are brave.
1163
01:13:45,376 --> 01:13:47,585
- And your father...
- He has to be safe.
1164
01:13:50,543 --> 01:13:52,835
My father must be safe.
1165
01:13:58,668 --> 01:14:00,168
Goodbye, Jeet.
1166
01:14:05,543 --> 01:14:07,001
- We have to go now.
- Kumar?
1167
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,960
I never thought this would
happen to my country.
1168
01:14:20,626 --> 01:14:22,501
But I must, for my daughter's sake.
1169
01:14:25,460 --> 01:14:28,710
Is your future still clouded, my friend?
1170
01:14:30,043 --> 01:14:32,668
Have you spoken yet
to your young woman?
1171
01:14:36,460 --> 01:14:37,668
Yes, sir.
1172
01:14:39,710 --> 01:14:41,460
It won't happen.
1173
01:14:41,543 --> 01:14:42,835
Why not?
1174
01:14:44,168 --> 01:14:45,668
Because she is leaving...
1175
01:14:47,335 --> 01:14:49,460
on a train for Pakistan.
1176
01:14:58,626 --> 01:15:00,793
It's been an honour knowing you, sir.
1177
01:15:18,501 --> 01:15:20,835
We have to go.
1178
01:15:34,126 --> 01:15:36,168
We'll be safe in Pakistan, Ubba.
1179
01:15:45,876 --> 01:15:47,335
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
1180
01:15:48,418 --> 01:15:49,960
(ENGINE STARTS)
1181
01:16:09,126 --> 01:16:11,460
Well, this really is splendid!
1182
01:16:11,543 --> 01:16:14,793
Mr Nehru, we in America are
well aware
1183
01:16:14,876 --> 01:16:16,751
of your admiration for
the Soviet Union.
1184
01:16:16,835 --> 01:16:18,585
I admire America too, Mr Grady.
1185
01:16:18,668 --> 01:16:20,918
Good, I'm glad to hear that.
1186
01:16:21,001 --> 01:16:24,126
There is a lot that America can do here.
1187
01:16:24,210 --> 01:16:26,001
After freeing ourselves from
one empire,
1188
01:16:26,085 --> 01:16:28,793
we'll not get too close to another.
1189
01:16:28,876 --> 01:16:31,335
India must go her own way.
1190
01:16:31,418 --> 01:16:32,793
Excuse me, sir.
1191
01:16:32,876 --> 01:16:35,376
Mr Radcliffe would like to speak
with you.
1192
01:16:37,376 --> 01:16:39,293
With your permission, sir, I'll go.
1193
01:16:42,918 --> 01:16:45,335
I strongly think we need more time.
1194
01:16:45,418 --> 01:16:46,585
Sit down.
1195
01:16:46,668 --> 01:16:49,960
Pug, I don't know if you really
understand,
1196
01:16:50,043 --> 01:16:54,876
but the commission is in deadlock
with every city we come to,
1197
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:58,710
and I'm most concerned about
the fairness of the thing.
1198
01:16:58,793 --> 01:17:01,793
I wonder if we might not involve
some other body.
1199
01:17:01,876 --> 01:17:03,835
What other body?
1200
01:17:03,918 --> 01:17:06,293
The United Nations, for example.
1201
01:17:06,376 --> 01:17:10,460
And admit that we British
can't see to our own affairs?
1202
01:17:10,543 --> 01:17:14,710
With respect, it's a monstrous
responsibility for just one man.
1203
01:17:19,293 --> 01:17:21,335
I'm going to go and see Mountbatten.
1204
01:17:21,418 --> 01:17:24,626
Dickie has to stay impartial.
You know that.
1205
01:17:24,710 --> 01:17:29,085
If he comes down on either side,
the whole thing will blow up.
1206
01:17:29,168 --> 01:17:31,585
It's got to be a clean cut.
1207
01:17:31,668 --> 01:17:36,418
It's a bloody axe, Pug, cleaving
right through people's lives.
1208
01:17:43,335 --> 01:17:46,793
This might be everything you need.
1209
01:17:57,460 --> 01:18:01,376
It's a policy document drawn up by
Churchill when he was Prime Minister.
1210
01:18:01,460 --> 01:18:03,210
Two years ago.
1211
01:18:03,293 --> 01:18:05,876
It sets out the future of India.
1212
01:18:09,168 --> 01:18:11,293
It should make your task easier.
1213
01:18:15,335 --> 01:18:16,460
What's this map?
1214
01:18:16,543 --> 01:18:20,085
It was drawn up by Viceroy Wavell
last year.
1215
01:18:21,626 --> 01:18:25,043
I don't understand. There's already
a boundary line there.
1216
01:18:25,126 --> 01:18:27,543
I've been asked to pass it on to you.
1217
01:18:27,626 --> 01:18:30,210
By whom? Mountbatten?
1218
01:18:30,293 --> 01:18:32,668
No. He knows nothing of it.
1219
01:18:33,751 --> 01:18:37,543
This comes right from the top, Radcliffe.
1220
01:18:37,626 --> 01:18:43,585
We didn't beat the Nazis and the Japs
to give away the shop to the Soviets.
1221
01:18:47,626 --> 01:18:51,960
As you can see, there are no
straight lines in India.
1222
01:19:01,710 --> 01:19:03,168
Good heavens!
1223
01:19:08,418 --> 01:19:11,501
There are hundreds coming every day.
1224
01:19:11,585 --> 01:19:13,376
Thousands in the city.
1225
01:19:14,626 --> 01:19:16,168
The stories they tell...
1226
01:19:18,168 --> 01:19:21,043
This isn't part of Daddy's plan, is it?
1227
01:19:25,710 --> 01:19:29,043
This way, this way.
Please, keep moving. Keep moving.
1228
01:19:46,585 --> 01:19:48,418
Duleep!
1229
01:19:49,501 --> 01:19:51,043
What happened?
1230
01:19:51,126 --> 01:19:53,751
Are any of our family here?
1231
01:19:54,835 --> 01:19:55,918
No.
1232
01:19:56,001 --> 01:19:59,168
Then I was... I was too late.
1233
01:19:59,251 --> 01:20:01,001
It was destroyed.
1234
01:20:01,085 --> 01:20:03,668
- What?
- Our village. They're all gone.
1235
01:20:03,751 --> 01:20:08,793
Men came from miles around,
destroying.
1236
01:20:08,876 --> 01:20:11,126
Our families are gone.
1237
01:20:11,210 --> 01:20:14,210
My mother? My sisters?
1238
01:20:14,293 --> 01:20:16,460
I couldn't find them.
1239
01:20:16,543 --> 01:20:19,710
I hope to God they are in
a refugee camp somewhere.
1240
01:20:19,793 --> 01:20:22,376
This girl I found in a barn.
1241
01:20:23,460 --> 01:20:25,376
The only one left.
1242
01:20:27,043 --> 01:20:30,418
All the way back, the dead lying
by the road.
1243
01:20:30,501 --> 01:20:33,960
Women jumped in the well
rather than be raped.
1244
01:20:54,085 --> 01:20:56,626
CYRIL: Sir, the boundary line is drawn.
1245
01:20:58,210 --> 01:21:02,626
We shan't announce this until after
the independence celebrations.
1246
01:21:02,710 --> 01:21:04,460
Why on earth?
1247
01:21:04,543 --> 01:21:08,085
The pressure I've been under
to produce that by today.
1248
01:21:08,168 --> 01:21:10,918
Let them have the joy of
their independence days
1249
01:21:11,001 --> 01:21:13,418
and face the misery of
the situation afterwards.
1250
01:21:14,501 --> 01:21:17,876
There will be carnage, sir,
either way.
1251
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:22,626
All the leaders believe that partition
will reduce the violence, not inflame it.
1252
01:21:22,710 --> 01:21:24,876
I've done a wholly inadequate job.
1253
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:28,043
I'm sorry you think so.
1254
01:21:28,126 --> 01:21:32,126
In all conscience, I cannot accept my fee.
1255
01:21:36,918 --> 01:21:38,710
I believe...
1256
01:21:38,793 --> 01:21:40,710
that you rather love this country.
1257
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:45,960
I think you deserve to know.
1258
01:22:16,335 --> 01:22:18,501
(CROWDS TALKING)
1259
01:22:31,501 --> 01:22:34,043
Our porter is ready to load.
1260
01:22:38,376 --> 01:22:41,210
Do you think we'll have enough?
1261
01:22:41,293 --> 01:22:44,960
There are too many people,
Lady Sahib.
1262
01:22:45,043 --> 01:22:48,668
If we work all night,
we would still not have enough.
1263
01:22:49,751 --> 01:22:51,751
Let me see what I can do.
1264
01:23:04,710 --> 01:23:06,751
Which train did Aalia take?
1265
01:23:08,710 --> 01:23:11,251
The night train, the last train.
1266
01:23:18,668 --> 01:23:20,376
It says there are no survivors.
1267
01:23:20,460 --> 01:23:22,168
(HE GASPS)
1268
01:23:56,251 --> 01:23:58,710
- Dickie, the refugees...
- Not now.
1269
01:24:04,418 --> 01:24:06,001
Please leave us.
1270
01:24:11,460 --> 01:24:13,126
This is why Jinnah wouldn't budge.
1271
01:24:13,210 --> 01:24:16,043
He'd already been promised
his Pakistan!
1272
01:24:16,126 --> 01:24:18,210
Why the hell did no one tell me?
1273
01:24:18,293 --> 01:24:20,418
So you could better do your job.
1274
01:24:20,501 --> 01:24:24,210
My job? Double-dealing
with men I've come to revere?
1275
01:24:24,293 --> 01:24:26,543
What do you mean, double-dealing?
1276
01:24:26,626 --> 01:24:30,835
You were perfectly honest,
and they gave you their trust,
1277
01:24:30,918 --> 01:24:32,251
as we hoped they would.
1278
01:24:32,335 --> 01:24:35,168
So I could urge them
to your foregone conclusion?
1279
01:24:35,251 --> 01:24:38,960
We have to protect our interests here.
1280
01:24:39,043 --> 01:24:40,585
Churchill can see it.
1281
01:24:40,668 --> 01:24:42,001
See what?
1282
01:24:42,085 --> 01:24:43,793
The future.
1283
01:24:43,876 --> 01:24:48,543
Look at the map.
Look at where the power will lie.
1284
01:24:48,626 --> 01:24:50,918
The Gulf, oil.
1285
01:24:51,001 --> 01:24:56,335
We need to secure our access,
you see, to these huge reserves,
1286
01:24:56,418 --> 01:24:59,543
and block access by others.
1287
01:24:59,626 --> 01:25:03,918
We'll have that security,
courtesy of Pakistan.
1288
01:25:05,585 --> 01:25:08,210
You've divided India for oil?
1289
01:25:08,293 --> 01:25:11,585
For security.
1290
01:25:11,668 --> 01:25:13,626
There's a Soviet empire.
1291
01:25:14,751 --> 01:25:19,210
Stalin needs a warm-water
eastern port.
1292
01:25:19,293 --> 01:25:23,043
He's had his sights set on Karachi.
1293
01:25:23,126 --> 01:25:25,626
He won't get it now.
1294
01:25:25,710 --> 01:25:27,626
Pakistan will be easier to influence
1295
01:25:27,710 --> 01:25:30,335
than an unruly India with
its socialist leanings?
1296
01:25:30,418 --> 01:25:32,168
Is that what you imagine?
1297
01:25:32,251 --> 01:25:34,585
It's not my place to imagine.
1298
01:25:34,668 --> 01:25:38,043
You have used me and my family.
1299
01:25:38,126 --> 01:25:41,126
You came here to serve
your king and country
1300
01:25:41,210 --> 01:25:43,835
and you've done so admirably.
1301
01:25:43,918 --> 01:25:47,085
I hear they're promoting you
from Viscount to Earl.
1302
01:25:48,835 --> 01:25:52,126
What about the people whose lives
have been destroyed by this?
1303
01:25:52,210 --> 01:25:54,043
That is unfortunate.
1304
01:25:54,126 --> 01:25:57,501
- Nobody foresaw...
- Blood is on your hands for this.
1305
01:25:57,585 --> 01:25:59,751
But Dickie...
1306
01:25:59,835 --> 01:26:01,543
it's your name on the plan.
1307
01:26:03,210 --> 01:26:06,251
It will always be known
as the Mountbatten Plan.
1308
01:26:10,626 --> 01:26:12,126
Good evening, Your Excellency.
1309
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:52,376
What the hell is this?
1310
01:26:53,626 --> 01:26:55,293
You said you would protect us.
1311
01:26:57,126 --> 01:26:59,085
You have torn India to pieces.
1312
01:27:07,460 --> 01:27:10,251
- Everyone I loved is dead.
- Kumar...
1313
01:27:10,335 --> 01:27:12,751
Is this the price that we pay
for our freedom?
1314
01:27:12,835 --> 01:27:17,293
I have seen many young men
lose loved ones in the war.
1315
01:27:18,376 --> 01:27:21,001
- And in time...
- You have lost no one, nothing!
1316
01:27:22,210 --> 01:27:25,251
In time, you will go back
to England, untouched.
1317
01:27:26,585 --> 01:27:28,251
You will forget what you have
done here.
1318
01:27:28,335 --> 01:27:30,001
Never.
1319
01:27:33,918 --> 01:27:37,043
I cannot serve you any more, sir.
1320
01:27:37,126 --> 01:27:41,168
I hope you never know
a moment's peace again.
1321
01:27:57,876 --> 01:27:59,543
We shan't go home.
1322
01:28:00,793 --> 01:28:03,626
After the transfer of power,
we'll stay on.
1323
01:28:03,710 --> 01:28:06,210
We must.
1324
01:28:06,293 --> 01:28:08,793
We'll do everything we can.
1325
01:28:09,876 --> 01:28:12,418
This tragedy was not of your making.
1326
01:28:44,585 --> 01:28:46,418
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1327
01:28:46,501 --> 01:28:47,835
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1328
01:28:47,918 --> 01:28:49,460
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1329
01:28:49,543 --> 01:28:51,376
- Hindustan!
- Zindabad!
1330
01:28:51,460 --> 01:28:53,251
(CHANTING CONTINUES)
1331
01:29:11,293 --> 01:29:13,543
The gate of freedom is open in India
1332
01:29:13,626 --> 01:29:16,501
as thousands of Hindus in New Delhi
swarm the streets,
1333
01:29:16,585 --> 01:29:19,626
awaiting their hour of liberation.
1334
01:29:19,710 --> 01:29:23,210
In Karachi, capital of the newly
created Muslim state of Pakistan,
1335
01:29:23,293 --> 01:29:27,001
Lord Louis Mountbatten,
last Viceroy of India,
1336
01:29:27,085 --> 01:29:30,001
arrives to take part in the official end
of British rule.
1337
01:29:39,626 --> 01:29:42,751
I am pleased you can share
in the joyous birth of our nation.
1338
01:29:42,835 --> 01:29:45,668
The impossible dream is a reality.
1339
01:29:45,751 --> 01:29:50,126
It shouldn't be me standing here with
you. It should be Churchill.
1340
01:29:50,210 --> 01:29:53,543
He's the midwife who delivered you
your Pakistan.
1341
01:29:53,626 --> 01:29:58,168
I did what any leader would do
to realise his people's dreams.
1342
01:29:59,668 --> 01:30:01,960
The truth is we've both been used.
1343
01:30:02,043 --> 01:30:03,751
But you got what you wanted.
1344
01:30:03,835 --> 01:30:08,251
I got only half the country I wanted.
1345
01:30:10,668 --> 01:30:13,751
We will always fear for our existence.
1346
01:30:13,835 --> 01:30:18,543
The British, on the other hand,
got everything they were playing for.
1347
01:30:18,626 --> 01:30:20,960
You are the victors here.
1348
01:30:22,418 --> 01:30:25,876
Predicting the future is a dangerous game.
1349
01:30:27,168 --> 01:30:29,835
I fear there will be no victors here.
1350
01:30:29,918 --> 01:30:31,710
I have a letter
1351
01:30:31,793 --> 01:30:36,460
from President Harry S Truman
of the United States of America.
1352
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:40,293
Congratulations to Pakistan
1353
01:30:40,376 --> 01:30:45,626
on its emergence among the family
of nations.
1354
01:30:45,710 --> 01:30:50,585
Long years ago we made a tryst
with destiny,
1355
01:30:50,668 --> 01:30:55,085
and now the time comes when
we shall redeem our pledge.
1356
01:30:55,168 --> 01:31:00,126
At the stroke of the midnight hour,
when the world sleeps,
1357
01:31:00,210 --> 01:31:04,251
India will wake to life and freedom.
1358
01:31:06,751 --> 01:31:12,168
Pakistan shall be a secular country,
where all shall be welcome,
1359
01:31:12,251 --> 01:31:16,668
and I assure you that
we shall not be wanting
1360
01:31:16,751 --> 01:31:19,751
in friendly spirit with our neighbours.
1361
01:31:19,835 --> 01:31:24,751
We have to build the noble mansion
of free India,
1362
01:31:24,835 --> 01:31:28,085
but our freedom is only possible
1363
01:31:28,168 --> 01:31:32,251
because millions have
suffered and sacrificed.
1364
01:31:32,335 --> 01:31:36,043
We pledge to them to build a free India
1365
01:31:36,126 --> 01:31:38,876
where all her children may flourish.
1366
01:31:55,418 --> 01:31:57,126
Shouldn't we wake Bapuji?
1367
01:32:01,460 --> 01:32:05,251
He's fine, he's sleeping.
He said there's nothing to celebrate.
1368
01:32:16,918 --> 01:32:20,168
One million people become refugees
overnight.
1369
01:32:20,251 --> 01:32:24,168
Carrying their few possessions,
they flee from savagery and butchery
1370
01:32:24,251 --> 01:32:27,626
that has never been exceeded
even in India's stormy history.
1371
01:32:39,460 --> 01:32:42,876
Another two million are preparing
for their trek.
1372
01:32:54,043 --> 01:32:56,376
Many will never reach their new land.
1373
01:32:56,460 --> 01:32:59,126
The refugee problem is immense.
1374
01:32:59,210 --> 01:33:01,751
Smallpox and cholera are reported
from their camps.
1375
01:33:01,835 --> 01:33:04,126
(CHILD CRIES)
1376
01:33:06,335 --> 01:33:08,168
Bibi Harmeet Kaur...
1377
01:33:08,251 --> 01:33:09,710
Jahlad Singh...
1378
01:33:09,793 --> 01:33:11,626
(NAMES CONTINUE)
1379
01:33:14,668 --> 01:33:16,918
(CHILDREN CRYING)
1380
01:33:51,751 --> 01:33:56,126
We ask for your patience, please.
There is enough food for everyone.
1381
01:33:57,460 --> 01:33:59,043
Please, move.
1382
01:34:03,126 --> 01:34:05,460
- Give to the children.
- Feed the children first.
1383
01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,668
EDWINA: Make sure the children...
1384
01:34:08,751 --> 01:34:10,751
Show me.
1385
01:34:12,918 --> 01:34:16,126
They haven't got enough food. Make
sure supplies are getting through.
1386
01:34:16,210 --> 01:34:21,710
Chandan Devi, Mandeep Singh,
Faishala Wad...
1387
01:34:21,793 --> 01:34:24,543
(NAMES CONTINUE)
1388
01:34:24,626 --> 01:34:28,126
(CROWDS CLAMOURING)
1389
01:34:38,168 --> 01:34:40,293
Sorry.
1390
01:34:40,376 --> 01:34:41,626
Nehruji.
1391
01:34:43,835 --> 01:34:45,835
Bring back my family.
1392
01:34:45,918 --> 01:34:47,793
I want my family back.
1393
01:34:50,293 --> 01:34:53,085
Forgive me, forgive me.
1394
01:35:15,335 --> 01:35:18,210
Daddy? Daddy?
1395
01:35:18,293 --> 01:35:20,501
Let's not have this.
1396
01:35:20,585 --> 01:35:22,710
Can't let the side down.
1397
01:35:22,793 --> 01:35:24,418
Not in public.
1398
01:35:29,751 --> 01:35:31,793
(MAN SHOUTS)
1399
01:35:38,376 --> 01:35:40,418
Some help over here, please.
1400
01:35:42,835 --> 01:35:45,668
My daughter.
My daughter, she is very sick.
1401
01:35:45,751 --> 01:35:48,543
This one is very weak, half-starved.
Jeet, find a stretcher!
1402
01:35:58,918 --> 01:36:02,001
(NAMES CONTINUE)
1403
01:36:22,876 --> 01:36:25,751
Father's name?
1404
01:36:25,835 --> 01:36:28,460
- My daughter, she is very sick.
- What is your family name?
1405
01:36:28,543 --> 01:36:33,043
Bibi Jind Kaur Bedi,
Machine Mala, one.
1406
01:36:33,126 --> 01:36:34,710
District Jhelum.
1407
01:36:34,793 --> 01:36:38,001
- And your daughter?
- I had a daughter like her.
1408
01:36:38,085 --> 01:36:40,210
A mob took her away.
1409
01:36:40,293 --> 01:36:42,918
I found this girl on the railway tracks.
1410
01:36:43,001 --> 01:36:47,335
He father pushed her off the train
before everyone was killed.
1411
01:36:47,418 --> 01:36:48,918
So she is a Muslim.
1412
01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:50,335
- She must go to other camp.
- No.
1413
01:36:50,418 --> 01:36:52,852
- She's my daughter now.
- These are rules you have to follow.
1414
01:36:52,876 --> 01:36:57,001
We all suffer the same way, no?
Please try to understand.
1415
01:36:57,085 --> 01:36:59,043
- I can't allow it!
- Please try.
1416
01:36:59,126 --> 01:37:02,960
Please try to understand, beta.
She's my daughter now.
1417
01:37:03,043 --> 01:37:04,793
(SHE GROANS)
1418
01:37:06,418 --> 01:37:08,335
Jeet? Jeet?
1419
01:37:20,793 --> 01:37:22,418
Sorry, sorry.
1420
01:37:22,501 --> 01:37:25,043
My daughter is very sick.
1421
01:37:31,168 --> 01:37:32,876
Jeet?
1422
01:37:32,960 --> 01:37:34,585
Jeet Kumar?
1423
01:37:35,876 --> 01:37:37,293
Jeet?
1424
01:37:39,626 --> 01:37:41,668
Jeet?
1425
01:37:41,751 --> 01:37:43,626
Hey, stop, please!
1426
01:37:46,835 --> 01:37:49,335
Jeet?
1427
01:37:49,418 --> 01:37:51,210
Sorry, no, ma'am.
1428
01:38:01,835 --> 01:38:03,585
Aalia?
1429
01:38:03,668 --> 01:38:07,085
- Narinder Singh...
- Aalia Noor? Aalia Noor?
1430
01:38:07,168 --> 01:38:09,085
- Go back to line.
- Noor, Aalia.
1431
01:38:09,168 --> 01:38:12,251
Sir, let me assure you,
we're doing all we can.
1432
01:38:12,335 --> 01:38:15,876
Yes, we will. It's coming.
Darling, water's coming.
1433
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:19,251
- There's more water coming.
- There are more water vases coming.
1434
01:38:19,335 --> 01:38:23,085
Now, for the time being, I would like
all families to stick together.
1435
01:38:26,043 --> 01:38:28,418
Aalia!
1436
01:38:31,626 --> 01:38:33,543
Aalia!
1437
01:38:33,626 --> 01:38:35,626
Jeet!
1438
01:38:35,710 --> 01:38:37,876
- Aalia!
- Jeet!
1439
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:41,085
Jeet!
1440
01:38:41,168 --> 01:38:43,251
Jeet!
1441
01:38:58,043 --> 01:39:00,543
(SHE SOBS)