Synopsis
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's
partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in
Ken McMullen's
Partition. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by
Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story
Toba Tek Singh,
Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight.