Director / Gurinder Chadha (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BRIDE & PREJUDICE, ANGUS THONGS & PERFECT SNOGGING)
Stars/ Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi and Michael Gambon

For three hundred years, Viceroy’s House in Delhi has been home to British rulers in India. But in 1947, that ruling is officially coming to its end. The historical events depicted in VICEROY’S HOUSE are close to the heart of its director Gurinder Chadha, who is also one of several writers and producers of this film. Chadha’s own family were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded.

Tasked with overseeing India’s transition to independence is Lord Mountbatten (Bonneville), great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Moving into Viceroy’s House for six months with his wife Edwina (Anderson) and daughter, violence begins to erupt between the Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs as plans to divide the country become public. Caught up in the conflict is Jeet Kumar (Dayal) a young Hindu and manservant to Mountbatten who has fallen in love with a young Muslim working at Viceroy’s House, Aalia (Qureshi).

VICEROY’S HOUSE provides viewers with an insightful examination of the conversations that took place behind closed doors at the grand abode and an all-round understanding of the complications that followed. These sweeping and monumental changes, which led to the partition of India, had a devastating impact on its people. All of which will be told throughout this motion picture. With so much political conversation on its agenda to cover, the aforementioned fictional sub-plot has been scripted to humanise the film and to extend the dramatic impact that these changes had.