1947 Earth 1999

1947 Earth is a 1999 Indian Bollywood drama,historical film released on Sep 10, 1999. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta, produced by Anne Masson.

This story moves around a few families of diverse cultural backgrounds, namely: Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, and Parsi, located in Lahore during the British rule in India. While the Parsi tribe, a known culture in present day India, are happy, the rest of the families are shown as sweating to make a livelihood. Things distinguish for the worse during 1947, the time the British decide to grant freedom to India, and that's when law and order break very easily, and turmoil, anarchy, and loss take over, resulting in millions of bodies and people dying, and millions more accomplished homeless and strapped. In this particular help, Shanta is a Hindu girl with the Sethna (belonging to a Parsi) family, who is deeply in love with Hassan, a Muslim boy, while Dil Navaz(the same boy) loves Shanta, and wants her to be his companion, she corners Hassan over him. This decision will have dreadful effects on everyone concerned, including the ones engaged in smuggling Hindus across the border into India.

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