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'Viceroy's house' not anti-Muslim film but about reconciliation: Gurinder Chadha

'Viceroy's house' not anti-Muslim film but about reconciliation: Gurinder Chadha
'Viceroys House' stars Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi

New Delhi, Mar 5 (UNI) Seeking to refute that her latest film 'Viceroy's house', which deals with the events that accompanied the partition of India in 1947, is anti-Muslim, UK-based Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha has said her film is about reconciliation. 'What saddens me is that a film about reconciliation should be so willfully misrepresented as anti-Muslim or anti-Pakistan,' Gurinder said in an article in 'The Guardian', London. Responding to a reviewer terming the film as 'anti Muslim' and 'anti Pakistan', the filmmaker said, 'In making the film, I took infinite care to show that responsibility for the violence (that accompanied the partition) lay on all sides, and all communities were victims of the violence, irrespective of race or religion. Part of that process was to share the script and the film with many Muslim, Hindu and Sikh academics and historians to ensure that the scenes I depicted were a fair and reasonable representation of events.' Responding to criticism that her film ignored the freedom struggle, she said,'My film does not ignore the freedom struggle, it celebrates that struggle. ('The British empire brought to its knees by a man in a loincloth,' as Lady Mountbatten comments.) It does not ignore the colonial policy of divide and rule, but challenges it. (As Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru comments to Lord Mountbatten: “You have divided us and now you ask us for a solution.”) Above all, it does not show the Muslim community as sole perpetrators of violence.' Describing her film as 'my vision of the events leading up to India’s partition', Gurinder said, 'I made Viceroy’s House so that this key moment in our shared British-Asian history – the 70th anniversary of the independence of India and the birth of Pakistan – would not be lost. The events of 1947 are largely forgotten in the UK, and they were and continue to be of huge importance. I do not for one minute expect every person watching the film to agree with my take on history.' The filmmaker expressed concern that those portraying her film as anti-Muslim were playing into the hands of those who promote communal division. 'What alarms me most about Bhutto’s piece is that it plays straight into the hands of those who promote communal division – something that plagues India and Pakistan to this day,'the filmmaker said. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, famous for films like 'Bend It Like Beckham' and 'Bride and Prejudice', Viceroys House charts the events in the months leading up to India’s independence from British rule in 1947, and the creation of Pakistan. The film released in the UK yesterday. Being released by Reliance Entertainment in India, 'Viceroys House' stars Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Tanveer Ghani, Denzil Smith, Neeraj Kabi and several international names In the film, Hollywood actor Honie Bonneville plays the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, who, in the final months of British rule, is tasked with preparing to hand the land back over to the Indian people. The decision to create an independent country for Muslims, Pakistan leads to conflict and impacts both Lord and Lady Mountbatten played by Gillian Anderson, as well as their 500 servants who live downstairs. UNI AR PY SV 1141

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