
Viceroy's House
Period drama. Lord Mountbatten arrives in India to take the post of last Viceroy. A new servant arrives to work as one of Mountbatten's dressers, only to encounter a long lost love.
Lord Mountbatten arrives in India to take the post of last Viceroy. He and his wife Edwina take up residence in the Viceroy's House, with its hundreds of Hindu, Sikh and Muslim Indian servants. Meanwhile new servant Jeet Kumar arrives to begin his new work as one of Mountbatten's dressers, only to encounter a long lost love from a difficult period in his past. With the country shrouded in civil unrest, Mountbatten is determined to oversee a peaceful transition of power but as India's leaders squabble amongst themselves it begins to look as though partition might be the only answer.
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Role | Contributor |
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Director | Gurinder Chadha |
Lord Mountbatten | Hugh Bonneville |
Edwina Mountbatten | Gillian Anderson |
Jeet | Manish Dayal |
Aalia | Huma Qureshi |
General Hastings Ismay | Michael Gambon |
Ewart | David Hayman |
Aly Rahim Noor | Om Puri |
Cyril Radcliffe | Simon Callow |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Denzil Smith |
Mahatma Gandhi | Neeraj Kabi |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Tanveer Ghani |
Lady Pamela Hicks | Lily Travers |
Mohsin | Samrat Chakrabarti |
Archie Wavell | Simon Williams |
Guptaji | Darshan Jariwala |
Duleep | Jaz Deol |
Writer | Paul Mayeda Berges |
Writer | Gurinder Chadha |
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