Directed by
Gurinder Chadha
Cast
Anderson Gillian, hugh Bonneville, Michael Gambon
Release date
5 July 2017
Runtime
1h46
Country
United Kingdom
Type
Drama
Language
English speaking with French and German subtitles

Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the glorious home of the British rulers of India. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with returning India to the Indians. He lived upstairs together with his wife and daughter. Downstairs lived their 5,000 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite took their seats upstairs to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted throughout the House. In a moment of history that demands to be wider understood, a catastrophic decision was taken that continues to shake our world.