Jinnah
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Date:
May 5, 2022
Date:
Thursday, June 9, 2022Time:
19:00 (Doors open from 18:45)Venue:
ODEON Luxe Birmingham Broadway Plaza, B16 8LPDirector:
Jamil DehlaviCast:
Christopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitken, Shashi Kapoor, Richard Lintern, Shireen Shah, Robert Ashby, Indira Varma, Sam Dastor, Shakeel, Talat HussainDuration:
110 MinutesLanguage:
EnglishCertified:
15 - Suitable for age 15 years and overBIRMINGHAM PREMIERE
Synopsis
It is 1947. India has been given its independence from British rule. Pakistan, the first state to be created as a homeland for Muslims, has been painfully born. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, realises this great ambition and a year later succumbs to the illness through which he has willed himself to live. He is rushed to hospital and when the ambulance stalls on the highway, his life begins to ebb. In his coma, Jinnah relives the dilemmas and triumphs of his life, the drama of his ideals, his romance, his happiness and the tragedy of his young wife’s death.
JINNAH tells the dramatic story of the partition of India, the final intrigue and arguments between the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi, Nehru and the mercurial Lady Edwina Mountbatten. It takes the young handsome idealist Jinnah on a journey through which his dream of freeing the people of India from the burden of foreign rule is twisted and tempered by the cruelties of politics. It is the story of a practical visionary who knew that on his word hung the future of a nation and that such a birth meant the division of a country and of his family when his only daughter marries an Indian and remains in India.
DIRECTOR BIO
Jamil Dehlavi is an independent filmmaker who read law at Oxford and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn before studying film directing at Columbia University New York where he received a Master of Fine Arts. He has produced and directed international award-winning films including Towers of Silence, The Blood of Hussain, Born of Fire, Immaculate Conception, Jinnah, Infinite Justice, Godforsaken and Seven Lucky Gods.
POST-SCREENING Q&A
Jamil Dehlavi will participate in a post-screening Q&A discussion.
