Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- India, United Kingdom
The story
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
- independence
- religious conflict
- colonial india
- interfaith love
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Hugh Bonneville
Lord Mountbatten
Gillian Anderson
Edwina Mountbatten
Michael Gambon
General Hastings Ismay
Manish Dayal
Jeet
- Huma Qureshi — Aalia
- David Hayman — Ewart
- Simon Callow — Cyril Radcliffe
- Om Puri — Ali Rahim Noor
- Lily Travers — Lady Pamela Hicks
- Simon Williams — Archie Wavell
- Arunoday Singh — Asif
- Sarah-Jane Dias — Sameera
- Lucy Fleming — Lady Wavell
- Marcus Jean Pirae — Alan Campbell Johnson
- Samrat Chakrabarti — Mohsin
- Directed
- Gurinder Chadha
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 297 ratings
- Studio
- Reliance Entertainment, BBC Film, BFI, Bend It Films, Deepak Nayar Productions, Anguille Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
