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Cast
Jimi Mistry | ... |
Gian Singh / Mohammad Hassan
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Kristin Kreuk | ... |
Naseem Khan
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Neve Campbell | ... |
Margaret Stilwell
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John Light | ... |
Walter Hankins
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Irrfan Khan | ... |
Avtar Singh
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Madhur Jaffrey | ... |
Shanti Singh
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Arya Babbar | ... |
Akbar Khan
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Lushin Dubey | ... |
Mumtaz Khan
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Chenier Hundal | ... |
Zakir Khan
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Jesse Moss | ... |
Andrew Stilwell
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Jaden Rain | ... |
Vijay G. Singh
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Dolly Ahluwalia | ... |
Rani
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Tony Ali | ... |
Mullah
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Darshan Aulakh | ... |
Man #1
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Baljinder Bhangu | ... |
Policeman #1
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Bhavna | ... |
Woman #2
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Maniki Deep | ... |
Person in Crowd #1
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Rupi Dhillon | ... |
Singing Mother
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Dhirendra | ... |
Sharma
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Jonathan Holmes | ... |
News Reader
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Sukhwinder Kaur | ... |
Woman #1
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Rajesh Khera | ... |
Arjuna - Sarsa Villager
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Thomas Kretschmann |
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Lakhwinder | ... |
Cameo
(as Lakha Lakhwinder Singh)
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Mina E. Mina | ... |
Salim
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Shraddha Nigam | ... |
Manjula
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Vinay Pathak | ... |
Ram
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Abdul H. Quadri | ... |
Iman
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Rupinder | ... |
Man #2
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Jasmine Sky Sarin | ... |
Yasmine
(as Jasmine Sarin)
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Maya Sarin | ... |
Maya Singh
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Parvesh Sethi | ... |
Policeman #2
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Manoj Sood | ... |
The Wood Gatherer
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Parm Soor | ... |
Pakistani Customs Officer
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Sukhraj Randhawa Sukhi | ... |
Muslim merchant
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Sukrita | ... |
Person in Crowd #2
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Amar Talwar | ... |
Khan
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Dhruv Tripathi | ... |
Vimal
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Jeannine Dupuy | ... |
British Lady at the Horse Race (uncredited)
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Thomas Potter | ... |
Officer (uncredited)
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Directed by
Vic Sarin |
Written by
Patricia Finn | ... | () |
Vic Sarin | ... | () |
Produced by
Tina Pehme | ... | producer |
Kim Roberts | ... | producer |
Chris Rudolph | ... | line producer |
Christopher Zimmer | ... | executive producer |
Music by
Brian Tyler |
Cinematography by
Vic Sarin |
Editing by
Reg Harkema | ... | (as Reginald Harkema) |
Editorial Department
Bonni Devlin | ... | post-production coordinator |
Mathieu Reid | ... | color timer |
Frank Robinson | ... | hd colorist |
Casting By
Shaheen Baig | ||
Lynne Carrow | ||
Jogi Mallang | ... | (as Jogi) |
Joginder Singh | ||
Meera Singh |
Production Design by
Amardeep Behl | ||
Tony Devenyi |
Art Direction by
Andy Amoroso | ||
Sanjoy Dasgupta | ... | co-art director |
Abid T.P. |
Set Decoration by
Sonal Choudhary | ||
Dina Holmes |
Costume Design by
Dolly Ahluwalia | ||
Jana MacDonald |
Makeup Department
Emma Clarke | ... | swing: makeup hair |
Joel Echallier | ... | special makeup effects designer |
Lori Gatto | ... | key hair stylist |
Debi Lelievre | ... | key makeup artist |
Production Management
Harish Amin | ... | production manager: India |
Linda Sophie Chiu | ... | executive in charge: Myriad Pictures |
Chris Rudolph | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Indivar Bhatia | ... | third assistant director: India |
Alexia S. Droz | ... | second assistant director |
Puneet Khanna | ... | trainee assistant director: India |
Siddhartha Luther | ... | second assistant director: India |
Carl Mason | ... | first assistant director |
Sameer Sadhwani | ... | second assistant director: India |
Tanya Tagman | ... | third assistant director |
David Wallace | ... | trainee assistant director |
Art Department
Matthew Astifan | ... | props |
Babu | ... | assistant set decorator: India |
Sonal Choudhary | ... | set decorator: India |
Sally Cook | ... | property master |
Dattu | ... | carpenter: India |
Kevin Gillan | ... | construction foreman |
Don Greff | ... | set designer |
Yashwant S. Kamble | ... | head painter: India |
Christopher A.R. Lowe | ... | set dresser |
Doug MacIntyre | ... | carpenter |
Jeff MacIntyre | ... | construction coordinator |
Julianne Manchur | ... | set dresser |
Vakila Mann | ... | local: India |
Lila Mckinlay | ... | set dresser |
Nathalie Morin | ... | assistant set decorator (as Natalie Morin) |
Chetan Vijay Pendakar | ... | painter: India |
Vijay Karojo Pendakar | ... | painter: India |
Cristina Peori | ... | lead hand painter |
Pindi | ... | local: India |
Ismail Sheikh | ... | prop buyer: India |
Dena Skalin | ... | paint coordinator |
Kevin Stephens | ... | construction coordinator |
Dhruv Tripathi | ... | props master: India |
Anil Vishwakarma | ... | carpenter: India |
Kharbin Vishwakarma | ... | carpenter: India |
Lawzari Vishwakarma | ... | head carpenter: India |
Sunil Vishwakarma | ... | carpenter: India |
Sound Department
Ken Biehl | ... | background sound effects editor |
Craig George | ... | assistant sound |
Tony Gort | ... | a.d.r recordist / sound effects editor / supervising sound editor |
Ken Lee | ... | boom operator (as Kenny Lee) |
Ian Mackie | ... | foley artist |
Roger Morris | ... | adr mixer / dialogue editor |
Frank Morrone | ... | re-recording mixer |
Roger Stafeckis | ... | sound mixer |
Greg Stewart | ... | re-recording mixer |
Vinod Subramanian | ... | sound mixer: second unit |
Christopher Cleator | ... | adr mixer (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
Tom Blacklock | ... | special effects coordinator |
Geno Joy | ... | special effects assistant |
Visual Effects by
Dermot Shane | ... | visual effects supervisor |
Madeleine Shane | ... | digital effects artist |
Seán Travers | ... | digital compositor |
Stunts
Crystal Dalman | ... | stunt double |
Babbu Khanna | ... | stunt coordinator |
Jon Kralt | ... | stunt double |
Chad Sayn | ... | assistant stunt coordinator / stunts |
Lauro David Chartrand-Del Valle | ... | stunt coordinator (as Lauro Chartrand) / stunts (as Lauro Chartrand) |
Mahendra Verma | ... | stunt coordinator: India |
Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Albanese | ... | still photographer |
Jeff Cassidy | ... | additional second assistant camera |
Jason Chapman | ... | second assistant camera |
Dan Chiasson | ... | grip |
Jean Chiasson | ... | head grip |
Himmat Deol | ... | grip |
John Helme | ... | camera operator / gaffer |
Hamish Hollingsworth | ... | best boy |
Fazal Khan | ... | best boy grip |
Trin McQuair | ... | camera trainee |
G. Monic Kumar | ... | focus puller: "b" camera |
Sean Montgomery | ... | key grip |
Shaki Nabi | ... | swing gang: India |
Adrian Netto | ... | grip |
Laird Pierce | ... | second assistant camera: "a" camera: India unit |
Sanjay Sami | ... | key grip: India |
Tobias Sarin | ... | focus puller: "a" camera |
Jared Smith | ... | lighting technician |
Katie Weekley | ... | second assistant camera |
Brian Whittred | ... | camera operator: "a" camera |
Casting Department
Melissa Perry | ... | casting associate |
Dilip Shankar | ... | casting associate: India |
Marie Tate | ... | extras casting |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kajal Dhillon | ... | third assistant costumes: India |
Hiralal Jatav | ... | first assistant costumes: India (as Heera Lal) |
Veera Kapur | ... | costume chief assistant: India |
Nalini | ... | second assistant costumes: India |
Roopa | ... | costume assistant: India |
Abhilasha Sharma | ... | office assistant costumes: India |
Arun Singh | ... | office runner costumes: India |
Location Management
Elizabeth Amies | ... | locations key |
Darshan Aulakh | ... | location manager: India |
Vincent Dela Luna | ... | assistant location manager |
Gainda | ... | assistant location manager: India |
Darryl Griffiths | ... | assistant location manager |
Ritch Renaud | ... | location manager |
Gurvinder Singh | ... | assistant location manager: India |
Pramod Singh | ... | location manager: India |
Music Department
Robert Elhai | ... | orchestrator |
Gary L. Krause | ... | music editor (as Gary Krause) |
Stephen Krause | ... | scoring mixer |
Joe Lisanti | ... | music editor |
Keith Power | ... | technical score consultant |
Peter Rotter | ... | orchestra contractor |
Brian Tyler | ... | conductor |
Scottpatrick J. Sellitto | ... | music consultant (uncredited) |
Eric Stonerook | ... | copyist (uncredited) |
Script and Continuity Department
Jeannine Dupuy | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
S.M. Ferozeuddin Alameer | ... | production services: India |
Imtiaz Amir | ... | production accountant |
Javed Ansari | ... | key set production assistant |
Paresh Behera | ... | assistant accountant |
Chris Boettcher | ... | smoke artist |
Mary-Ellen Dale | ... | first assistant accountant |
Winica Dewangga | ... | body double |
Gurpreet Singh Giani | ... | animal wrangler: India |
Anshul Gupta | ... | office production assistant: India |
Neha Gupta | ... | production assistant: India |
Stacey Harris | ... | assistant production coordinator |
Saarrah Imtiaz | ... | payroll accountant: India |
Aakash Kaushik | ... | production trainee: India |
Marten Kayle | ... | assistant: Vic Sarin |
Sandy McKechnie | ... | second assistant production coordinator |
Guneet Monga | ... | production coordinator: India |
Rahul Chandra Pal | ... | assistant coordinator: India |
Virginia Prasad | ... | bookkeeper |
Anureeta Saigal | ... | film coordinator: India |
Arun Sharma | ... | assistant: Anureeta Saigal, India |
Karen Tony | ... | production accountant |
Shelby Tony | ... | assistant accountant |
Susan Trovao | ... | assistant to producer |
Rohan Vachher | ... | office production assistant: India |
Robyn Wiener | ... | production coordinator |
Darcy Woodley | ... | animal trainer |
Steve Woodley | ... | animal trainer coordinator |
Thanks
Carmen Bonnici | ... | special thanks |
Brad Horvath | ... | thanks |
Firdaus Kharas | ... | thanks |
Production Companies
- Partition Films Inc.
- Astral Media
- Khussro Films
- Movie Central Network
- Myriad Pictures
- Sepia Films
- Téléfilm Canada
- imX Communications
Distributors
- Myriad Pictures (2007) (United States) (theatrical)
- Seville Pictures (2007) (Canada) (theatrical)
- Shaw Organisation (2007) (Singapore) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (2007) (Canada) (DVD)
- Murena International (2007) (Russia)
- Allumination Filmworks
- Mill Creek Entertainment (2011) (United States) (DVD)
- Mondo Home Entertainment (2009) (Italy)
- Seville Pictures (2008) (Canada) (DVD)
- Soda Pictures (2007) (United Kingdom)
- Star Entertainment (2008) (India)
- Vértice 360 (2009) (Spain) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2008) (Canada) (DVD)
Special Effects
- Joel Echallier's SFX Studio (special makeup effects)
Other Companies
- Film Finances Canada (completion guarantor)
- Finale Post Production (HD post production)
- Finale Post Production (final color and finishing)
- Post Modern Sound (post-production sound services)
- SFX Studio (special make-up effects)
- Shaman Digital Media (post-production facilities)
- Thompson-Nicola Film Commission (production services)
- Woodley's Wildlife (animal services and training provided by)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Gian Singh & Avtar Singh are officers with the Indian Army serving under the command of Andrew Stilwell, who lives with his sister, Margaret, in Delhi. During 1941 the trio are dispatched to active duty in Burma where Andrew is killed. Both Gian and Avtar return to their village in Sarsa, Punjab, where Gian lives with his widowed mom, Shanti. During 1947, after 350 years of occupying India, the British decide to leave, but not before separating Islamic Pakistan and secular India. Millions of Muslims crossed from India to Pakistan, while an equal number of Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians crossed over from the other side. A group of Muslims who were crossing over to Pakistan are attacked by a mob of sword wielding horse-riding Sikhs, and Hindus, including Avtar, many are slaughtered, but some do manage to escape. Muslims, in turn, kill all Hindus, Sikhs and Christian passengers on a train en-route to India. While Gian, who refuses to participate in any killing, is picking up wood for his fireplace, he comes a across a young Muslim girl, Naseem Khan, in hiding, and decides to shelter her. He brings her home with him, places a turban over head to make her look like a young Sikh lad, and hides her in a trunk from his mother. But the villagers do find out, while some want to outrightly kill her, others want her to leave. Gian donates some money for the displaced Sikhs and Hindus from Pakistan, and asks the villagers to give him some time to locate her family from Pakistan and then send her on her way, to which they agree. Gian seeks the help of Margaret, who does her best to liaise with the Ministry of Unification of Families, but to no avail. In the meantime, Naseem adapts herself to the village life, and soon she and Gian fall in love with each other. Shortly thereafter both get married, and soon Naseem gives birth to a boy, Vijay. Years later, they get a surprise visit from Margaret, who has now located Naseem's family. Naseem's is thrilled, and departs to Kasur in Pakistan to meet her family, who she will be staying with for a month. When she does not return after 3 months, Gian approaches the authorities to travel to Pakistan, but is refused as only Muslims are permitted to cross over. He then converts to Islam, changes his name to Mohammad Hassan, and together with Vijay, obtains necessary documents to travel to Pakistan, but are stopped at the border and asked to bring further proof. Both father and son sneak in through the border fence and find a room in Lahore's Royal Hotel, managed by a Walter Hankins, a friend of Margaret. Gian goes to Kasur, finds Naseem's house - and it is here that he gets severely beaten up by Naseem's brothers, Abdul and Akbar, who, along with their mother, have been holding Naseem against her will in their house. The reason: Naseem's father was killed by a Sikh, and they refuse to permit her to leave the house and return to her family. What can Gian do under these circumstances, especially with his illegal entry into Pakistan, and also with sentiments still running high against Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) |
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Taglines | Two Faiths. Two Worlds. One Love. See more » |
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Budget | $10,000,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Trivia | Lushin Dubey who plays the role of Naseem's mother is a well known actress and a sister of Lillete Dubey. In fact Lillete also played a similar role (actress's mother)as Lushin in the movie Gadar (2001) which also dealt with Sikh marrying a Pakistani woman during Partition. See more » |