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Earth (1998)
Director: Deepa Mehta
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From Time Out Film Guide
This powerful and impressive drama from the director of Fire (an Indian film-maker now resident in Canada) is based on Bapsi Sidhwa's autobiographical novel Cracking India and is set against the background of Partition. Eight-year-old Lenny-Baby is a Parsee growing up in Lahore, but her nanny Shantu (Das) is Hindu, and her beaus Ice Candy Man and Hasan are both Muslim. This schematic melodrama functions both as a credible historical explanation of the India/Pakistan political fault line (the Parsees remained unaligned), and as a chilling exploration of how ordinary people are sucked into religious and sectarian hatred.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Deepa Mehta
Producer: Deepa Mehta, Anne Masson, Dilip Mehta
Cast: Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Kitu Gidwani, Maia Sethna full cast
Duration: 115 mins
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