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Earth
- Director: Deepa Mehta
- Writer: Deepa Mehta; Bapsi Sidhwa
- Producer: Sean Atkinson; Anne Masson
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2nd part of the Elements trilogy...and, a vast improvement on the first.
Having said that...it's still a shallow, unspectacular, overly-wordy, inaccurate piece of nonsense.
Ochre tones, soft lighting and incongruous music...and constant (badly written) conversations. Deepa Mehta makes no use of the camera...what's the point in making a film?!?
Show don't tell!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.
Cast & Characters
Maia Sethna as Lenny Sethna;
Nandita Das as Shanta, the Ayah;
Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Imam Din;
Babby Singh as Yousaf;
Kitu Gidwani as Bunty Sethna;
Raghuvir Yadav as Hariya / Himmat Ali;
Kabir Chowdhury as Cousin Adi;
Arif Zakaria as Rustom Sethna;
Eric Peterson as Mr. Rogers;
Gulshan Grover as Mr. Singh