Zed, un rappeur anglo-pakistanais, habite à New York. Un jour, la chance lui sourit, et le voilà prêt à partir pour une tournée européenne qui s'annonce sous les meilleurs auspices. C'est alors que Zed apprend, totalement médusé, qu'il souffre d'une maladie auto-immune neurodégénérative. Sa tournée, et tous ses rêves, sont aussitôt compromis. Comment va-t-il pouvoir gérer sa nouvelle existence ? Zed décide de s'embarquer pour Londres afin d'y retrouver sa famille.
Lahore, 1947. Après avoir colonisé l'Inde pendant trois siècles, les Britanniques s'apprêtent à lui rendre son indépendance en la divisant : d'une part le Pakistan musulman, de l'autre l'Inde à majorité hindoue. Lenny est la fille unique et choyée d'une famille parsie aisée de Lahore. Handicapée à la jambe à suite d'une polio, celle que tout le monde appelle « Lenny baby » malgré ses huit ans, participe peu aux jeux des autres enfants et suit sa nourrice Shanta dans ses promenades. C'est ainsi qu'elle l'accompagne tous les jours au parc où la jeune fille retrouve un groupe d'admirateurs que la grâce et la beauté de la jeune hindoue fascinent. Hindous, musulmans ou sikhs, les jeunes gens rivalisent d'imagination et d'humour pour attirer son attention tout en restant bons amis. Deux d'entre eux, musulmans, sortent du lot : Dil Navaz, appelé « Ice Candy Man », un vendeur de sucrerie, filou, charmeur et poète à ses heures).
In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
The story of two families — one Muslim and one Hindu — living together in India under British rule.
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition.
Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task
Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.
Habibur Rahman’s The River of Partition (Ichamati, 2023) documents this riverine environment, the diverse communities that live around it, and the socio-historical role played by the river in the wake of the partition of India in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).