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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho is Muhammad Ali Jinnah? Founder of Pakistan. Movie on TCM 7 p.m. CDT
Damn, read and learn my friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah
From imdb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183306/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I had no idea.
JI7
(89,271 posts)They are involved in Indian beauty pageants
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)and a subtitle. It is about just before and then after the division of India. Jinnah, Nehru, Ghandi, and the viceroy Mountbatten and some terrifying sikhs are covered thoroughly.
Jinnah was intelligent, not a devout muslim, educated in England. He smoked and drank alcohol.
Did you know "Pakistan" is sort of an acronym? P - Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind, Baluchistan.
Enjoy the movie. Good book.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Nisid Hajari.
These people of different beliefs and faith lived and worked next to each other for hundreds of years. Then, as British colonialism was ending, they simply decided they didn't want to any more. And it was brutal. The turnover and then the splitting were disastrous.
The author wonders about how our geopolitics would be different if they had not partitioned.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)"It had the best reviews I've ever had in my entire career - as a film and as a performance. But ultimately it was never shown at the cinemas."
Filmed seven years ago in Pakistan, Jinnah was never released on the big screen - though it was applauded at film festivals around the world and later appeared on satellite television.
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The film, which was also the subject of unspecified legal wrangles, was finally released on DVD earlier this month and according to a delighted Lee is selling extremely well, but clearly its thwarted release remains a disappointment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3733894.stm