Jinnah (film)

Jinnah is a film about the life of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It was directed by Jamil Dehlavi and written by Akbar S. Ahmed and Jamil Dehlavi. The film was released in 1998 in London, United Kingdom and Pakistan.

Plot overview

The film follows the life of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan (formerly a part of India). When Jinnah dies, he is taken to a heavenly ante-room where a decision will be made on his fate, but his file has gone missing, and the Guide must question him about his life to fill in his story. He tells of the key point in 1947, when India was about to get independence from Britain, and Jinnah advocated a separate nation for the Muslim minority.

Mahatma Gandhi suggests Jinnah be made prime minister of the new India, as a compromise, but this suggestion is rejected and Nehru takes the job instead. Jinnah's nemesis is Lord Louis Mountbatten, the British viceroy who opposes the idea of Pakistan. As well as this historical turning point, Jinnah recalls his youth, and formative relationships with his sister Fatima and a marriage to a Parsi (Indian Zoroastrian) woman.

Cast

• Christopher Lee – Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• Shashi Kapoor – Narrator
• James Fox – Lord Louis Mountbatten
• Maria Aitken – Edwina
• Richard Lintern – Jinnah (Younger)
• Shireen Shah – Fatima Jinnah
• Indira Varma – Ruttie Jinnah
• Robert Ashby – Nehru
• Sam Dastor – Mahatma Gandhi
• Shakeel – Liaquat Ali Khan
• Vaneeza Ahmed – Dina (Older)
• Roger Brierley – Judge
• Vernon Dobtcheff – Lord Willingdon
• Rowena Cooper – Lady Willingdon
• James Curran – Colonel Knowles
• Michael Elwyn – Sir Cyril Radcliffe
• Ian Gelder – The English police officer
• Christopher Godwin – Recruitment officer Incharge
• John Grillo – Sir Dinshaw Petit
• Talat Hussein – Refugee
• John Nettleton – General Gracie
• David Quilter – Porrit
• Khayyam Sarhadi – Nishtar
• David Sterne – Birtwhistle
• Marc Zuber – Muhammad Iqbal
• shahid iqbal - barrister chagla

Reviews

• Troubled Jinnah movie opens (BBC News, September, 1998)
• IO Film Reviews
• Close-up Film Review: Jinnah
• "Jinnah the Movie" reviews by Rizwan

External links

• Christopher Lee on the making of legends and Jinnah
• Christopher Lee launches film about Jinnah in London (Asians in Media Magazine)

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