Drama History
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Directed by
Gurinder Chadha
Written by
Gurinder Chadha, Moira Buffini, Paul Mayeda Berges
Gillian Anderson
Edwina Mountbatten
Michael Gambon
General Hastings Ismay
David Hayman
Ewart
Jawaharlal Nehru
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Om Puri
Ali Rahim Noor
Huma Qureshi
Aalia
Hugh Bonneville
Lord Mountbatten
Manish Dayal
Jeet
Simon Callow
Cyril Radcliffe
Darshan Jariwala
Guptaji
Roberta Taylor
Miss Reading
Simon Williams
Archie Wavell
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Terence Harvey
Sir Fred Burrows
Tanveer Ghani
Jawaharlal Nehru
Lily Travers
Lady Pamela Hicks
Samrat Chakrabarti
Mohsin
Nicholas Blane
Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe
Sarah-Jane Dias
Sameera
Arunoday Singh
Asif
Denzil Smith
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Raj Zutshi
Lucy Fleming
Lady Wavell
Neeraj Kabi
Mahatma Gandhi
Robin Soans
Governor Jenkins
Mahatma Gandhi
Himself (archive footage)
Louis Mountbatten
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marcus Jean Pirae
Alan Campbell Johnson
Edwina Mountbatten
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jaz Deol
Duleep
Hriiday Malhotra
Sanjit
Noah Zeiler
Henry Grady

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