Partition - 1947

(2017)

Year is 1947 and the story starts with welcoming the latest and last Viceroy of India - Lord Louis Mountbatten. He has given the responsibility of transferring the freedom of India to its citizens peacefully. He's warmly welcomed as he starts authorising his powers to complete the task he has been given. As he goes through the situation he realizes that this is not going to be easy as India is already internally divided.

Mountbatten decides to meet up with Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah to go through what they think and want. After meeting them he is forced to do something which he is not willing, Partition. The whole film is about how the Partition was executed and how it affected both the nations which were united back then. It's about how Lady Edwina, Mountbatten's wife, tries to stop the impossible and where does she ends up with her husband.