{"id":20045,"date":"2017-01-13T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2017-01-13T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:59:04","slug":"world-premiere-viceroys-house-taking-place-67th-berlin-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/world-premiere-viceroys-house-taking-place-67th-berlin-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere of Viceroy&#8217;s House Taking Place at 67th Berlin International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Viceroy&#8217;s House<\/strong> by BAFTA nominated director <strong>Gurinder Chadha <\/strong>will celebrate its World Premiere at the <strong>67<\/strong><strong>th<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday 12<\/strong><strong>th<\/strong><strong>\u00a0February 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gurinder Chadha, director, commented: \u201cI am honoured that VICEROY\u2019S HOUSE has been selected by the Berlin Film Festival. My film is an inspirational intensely personal true story about the traumatic events that took place at the end of\u00a0 the British Empire in India, events that tore my own family apart. The Festival gives us a brilliant opportunity to showcase my passion project to a global audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gurinder Chadha\u2019s VICEROY\u2019S HOUSE will be released in cinemas by Pathe in the UK and by Reliance Entertainment in India\u00a0 on 3rd\u00a0March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the true story of the final months of British rule in India and its release will coincide with the 70<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Independence of India and the founding of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The British cast is led by <strong>Hugh Bonneville<\/strong> (<em>Downton Abbey, Paddington<\/em>) as Lord Mountbatten; <strong>Gillian Anderson<\/strong> (<em>The X Files, The Fall<\/em>) as his wife, Lady Mountbatten; <strong>Lily Travers<\/strong> (<em>Kingsman<\/em>) as their daughter, Pamela; and <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Gambon<\/strong> (<em>Harry Potter, Quartet<\/em>) and <strong>Simon Callow<\/strong> (<em>A Room With A View, Four Weddings and a Funeral<\/em>) as key civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian and Pakistani cast is led by <strong>Manish Dayal<\/strong> (<em>The Hundred Foot Journey<\/em>), <strong>Huma Qureshi<\/strong> (<em>Gangs of Wasseypur<\/em>) and <strong>Om Puri<\/strong> (<em>The Hundred Foot Journey, East Is East<\/em>).\u00a0 The roles of the principal political leaders are played by <strong>Tanveer Ghani<\/strong> (Nehru), <strong>Denzil Smith<\/strong> (Jinnah) and <strong>Neeraj Kabi<\/strong> (Gandhi).<\/p>\n<p>VICEROY\u2019S HOUSE is directed by Gurinder Chadha (<em>Bend it like Beckham) <\/em>from a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Moira Buffini, and is produced by Deepak Nayar (<em>Bend it like Beckham, The End of Violence, Buena Vista Social Club<\/em>), Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges.\u00a0 The film is executive produced by Path\u00e9\u2019s Cameron McCracken, Reliance\u2019s Shibasish Sarkar, \u00a0former head of BBC Films Christine Langan, the BFI\u2019s Natascha Wharton and Ingenious Media\u2019s Tim O\u2019Shea.<\/p>\n<p>The film is a Path\u00e9, Reliance, BBC Films, Ingenious and BFI presentation of a Bend It Films\/Deepak Nayar Production in association with the FilmVast and Filmgate Films. Viceroy&#8217;s House has been supported by the BFI through its National Lottery funding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viceroy&#8217;s House by BAFTA nominated director Gurinder Chadha will celebrate its World Premiere at the 67th\u00a0Berlin International Film Festival on Sunday 12th\u00a0February 2017. Gurinder Chadha, director, commented: \u201cI am honoured that VICEROY\u2019S HOUSE has been selected by the Berlin Film Festival. My film is an inspirational intensely personal true story about the traumatic events that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":20052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,3,283,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-latest","category-news","category-top-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}