Partition

The tumultuous events surrounding the subcontinents partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are reimagined in Ken McMullens complex and visually striking film A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Mantos short story Toba Tek Singh Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian subcontinent this is the films firstever release on DVD