Partition

Partition (2007)

  • 38% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 69% of users liked it
    (6,497 ratings)

In a time when India and Pakistan are being torn apart, true love still manages to take root despite the fear and intolerance that blights the troubled landscape. The year is 1947, and as India and Pakistan are split into two separate states the rivers run red with blood. Gian (Jimi Mistry) is a… More

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Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Feb 2, 2007 Wide
Soda Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Wally Hammond, Time Out

    The period reconstructions are impressive but the script and direction are a little pedestrian.

  • Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail

    Where the film stumbles is the script, overcrowded with bits of business and scenes that lean heavily on the symbolic.

  • Susan Walker, Toronto Star

    [Director] Sarin was aiming for an epic and arrived at episodic. That might have been okay if the episodes weren't so partitioned from each other, the flashbacks failing to illuminate the present action.

  • Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

    Set in the years surrounding independence in India, this slightly melodramatic film has a strong emotional kick that manages to bring both the romance and the religious-political situation vividly to life.

  • Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

    In short, Partition is a watchable slice of melodrama that's worth seeing for the performances of the three leads.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Daisy M


    Partition is an absolute masterpiece in cinematography, with a compelling continuing story of emotions, historical cultural divide,the human need to love and be loved regardless of the events of the world around us. A masterpiece in independent film-making, the director Vic is an… More

  • Donna D


    An ultimate love story with a tragic ending, but so beautiful and endearing. It's very well written and the acting is superb by all the cast, and I absolutely love this movie.

  • Leo L


    A beautiful movie!! Great story plot about two individuals who fall in love, and marry, in India during 1947. One is Sikh and the other Muslim, this movie follows their story together. Jimi Mistry stars in this drama, it is definitely fantastic to see him in a film once again. Kristin… More

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