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A salutary history lesson
ALAN FRANK recommends a film about India on the cusp of independence

Viceroy’s House (12A) Directed by Gurinda Chadha 4/5

“HISTORY is written by the victors,” we learn at the start of Viceroy’s House.

Kenya-born British-Punjabi filmmaker Gurinda Chadha’s story is a riveting and deeply disturbing account of the transfer of power from Britain to India in 1947 after 200 years of colonial rule.

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