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DayalMars 1947. Aprs 300 ans de domination anglaise, le Palais du Vice-Roi Delhi ouvre ses portes une dernire fois pour accueillir Lord Mountbatten et sa famille. Petit-fils de la reine d'Angleterre et nomm dernier Vice-Roi des Indes, "Dickie" Mountbatten devra prparer le pays l'indpendance. Aprs d'pres ngociations avec Nehru, Gandhi et Jinnah, perturbes par de violents conflits religieux, il n'aura d'autre choix que dentriner la partition des Indes et la cration d'un nouvel tat, le Pakistan.Dans le mme temps, deux jeunes indiens au service du Palais et que la religion oppose, subiront ces vnements et auront choisir entre leur amour et leur attachement leurs communauts. La dcision de Lord Mountbatten va provoquer l'un des plus grands dplacements de population de l'Histoire et ses consquences se font encore ressentir aujourdhui. Viceroys House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The films story unfolds within that great House. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite - Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi - converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day.

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