Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
James Wilby | Lord Mountbatten |
Roshan Seth | Jawarharlal Nehru |
Saskia Reeves | Lady Mountbatten |
Surendra Rajan | Muhatma Gandhi |
Julian Wadham | Evan Jenkins |
Allan Corduner | Lord Ismay |
Rajat Kapoor | Muhammed Ali Jinnah |
Vinod Nagpal | Tara Singh |