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Viceroy's House Movie Review

Name: Viceroy's House Movie Review
Item: Viceroy's House
Rating: 2.5
Author: Sivapriya Anand

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Review for the film " Viceroy's House"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 46 Minutes

Certificate: UA

Released: 18-08-2017

Genre: Drama, Biography

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CAST & CREW

Arunoday Singh

Darshan Jariwala

Denzil Smith

Hriiday Malhotra

Jaz Deol

Michael Gambon

Neeraj Kabi

Om Puri

Rajendranath Zutshi

Samrat Chakrabarti

Tanveer Ghani

Ashraf Khan

Nakul Kamte

Sunil Rodrigues

Seema Kashyap

Seher Latif

Pravesh Sahni

Ashish Ranglani

Udayan Baijal

Ravi Srivastava

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Producer:

Paul Mayeda Berges

Gurinder Chadha

Deepak Nayar

Music Director:

A. R. Rahman

Editor:

Valerio Bonelli

Victoria Boydell

Director:

Gurinder Chadha

Supporting Actress:

Huma Qureshi

Gurinder Chadha

Sarah Jane Dias

Costume Designer:

Keith Madden

Art Director:

Ravi Srivastava

Mat Bergel

Sunil Chhabra

First Assistant Director:

Udayan Baijal

Second Assistant Director:

Jayant Rao

Ashish Ranglani

Co-Producer:

Simon Perry

Paul Ritchie

Pravesh Sahni

Director of Photography:

Ben Smithard

Executive Producer:

Tim O\'Shea

Cameron McCracken

Assistant Director:

Dhaval Sadrani

Mohit Silswal

Visual Effects Producer:

Erica Winkler

Casting Director:

Michelle Guish

Seher Latif

Production Manager:

Claudia Cimmino

Sound Effects Editor:

Eilam Hoffman

empty:

Johnathan Rush

Mike Dowson

Assistant Editor:

Danielle El-Hendi

Assistant Costume Designer:

Riyaz Ali Merchant

Screenplay Writer:

Moira Buffini

Gurinder Chadha

Paul Mayeda Berges

Script Supervisor:

San Davey

Gaffer:

Chris Georgas

Music Editor:

Christoph Bauschinger

Foley Artist:

Peter Burgis

Production Designer:

Laurence Dorman

Set Decorator:

Seema Kashyap

Makeup Artist:

Jacqueline Fowler

Stunt Coordinator:

Sunil Rodrigues

Visual Effects Coordinator:

Freya Wheelan

Digital Compositor:

Denis Reva

Ivan Lindfors

Visual Effects Artist:

Sonny Hamberg

Osama Al-Arbid

Sound Mixer:

Nakul Kamte

Boom Operator:

Ashraf Khan

Assistant Hair Stylist:

Prajaka Ruokhande

Stunt Coordinator Assistant:

Ignatius Bhaver

First Assistant Editor:

Manuela Lupini

Post Production Facility:

Molinare Studio

Supporting Actor:

Michael Gambon

Samrat Chakrabarti

Rajendranath Zutshi

Om Puri

Neeraj Kabi

Jaz Deol

Hriiday Malhotra

Denzil Smith

Darshan Jariwala

Arunoday Singh

Tanveer Ghani

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Viceroy's House is the Indo- British historical movie scripted by Paul Mayeda Berges Paul Mayeda Berges is an American Director, Screen >> Read More... , Moira Buffini and Gurinder Chadha Born on January 10, 1960, Gurinder Chadha is a fam >> Read More... . Gurinder Chadha directed the film. Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi Huma Qureshi is a model-turned-actress in Bollywoo >> Read More... , and Michael Gambon are in the main star cast of Viceroy's House. “A R Rahman” composed the music and the cinematography is by Ben Smithard. Om Puri Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior a >> Read More... , Simon Williams, Sarah-Jane Dias, Samrat Chakrabarti Samrat Chakrabarti was born in London, England, on >> Read More... , Roberta Taylor, Tanveer Ghani Tanveer Ghani is an actor who works in British Tel >> Read More... , Denzil Smith Denzil Smith is a filmmaker and an actor. He was b >> Read More... , Lucy Fleming, Neeraj Kabi Neeraj is an actor, trainer and director. He was t >> Read More... and Darshan Jariwala The actor Darshan Jariwala is a Hindi television a >> Read More... are also in the supporting cast. The film is produced by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha and Deepak Nayar Deepak Nayar was born in 1959 in India and started >> Read More... . The film was screened at the 67^th Berlin International Film Festival. The film has been dubbed and released in Hindi as Partition: 1947.

Plot

The story is about the life inside the Viceroy’s House during the Indian independence. The plot deals with how the last British viceroy of India Lord Louis Mountbatten dealt with the partition of India during the independence. The plot also deals with the love story of a Hindu man and a Muslim woman, who served in the Viceroy’s House. Their love story gets another character, the woman’s fiancé.

Star Performance

Om Puri’s performance as a blind father of Huma Qureshi impresses the audiences. The rest of the cast has done as directed but could not be said that they are perfect.

Analysis

Gurinder Chadha has tried to bring out a different angle of the partition. The film seems to be an ambitious project of Gurinder and it is a well scripted and well-executed project. Jinnah wants a separate Muslim country whereas Gandhi and Nehru want undivided India. Along with the political conflicts, a mild love story is laced. Although we have seen a lot of such partition based stories, Gurinder Chadha’s script is a bit different. The script reveals the incidents from the eyes of an Indian mother. A good try by Gurinder Chadha!

What’s Not There?

Chadha’s execution is good
A different historical feel

What’s Not There?

Chadha didn’t reveal the rumored relationship between Nehru and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, which was highly expected
Disappointing background score by Rahman
Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah's roles didn’t gel with the story of the Viceroy house staffs

Verdict

Viceroy’s House doesn’t deal much with the Indian independence struggle but with the incidents that happened inside the Viceroy’s house. If you are a person, who love to watch historical films, then this film might satisfy you.

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