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
Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini, Gurinder Chadha
Gillian Anderson
Edwina Mountbatten
Michael Gambon
General Hastings Ismay
Hugh Bonneville
Lord Mountbatten
Simon Callow
Cyril Radcliffe
David Hayman
Ewart
Om Puri
Ali Rahim Noor
Manish Dayal
Jeet
Huma Qureshi
Aalia
Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Simon Williams
Archie Wavell
Darshan Jariwala
Guptaji
Roberta Taylor
Miss Reading
Raj Zutshi
Terence Harvey
Sir Fred Burrows
Neeraj Kabi
Mahatma Gandhi
Lily Travers
Lady Pamela Hicks
Sarah-Jane Dias
Sameera
Arunoday Singh
Asif
Samrat Chakrabarti
Mohsin
Denzil Smith
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Robin Soans
Governor Jenkins
Nicholas Blane
Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe
Mahatma Gandhi
Self (archive footage)
Lucy Fleming
Lady Wavell
Tanveer Ghani
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marcus Jean Pirae
Alan Campbell Johnson
Louis Mountbatten
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwina Mountbatten
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jaz Deol
Duleep
Hriiday Malhotra
Sanjit
Noah Zeiler
Henry Grady

Your rating