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Jinnah (1998)
Directed by Jamil Dehlavi
“He fought for justice, and made Pakistan.”
History, War, Drama · 1h 50m
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.
Cast
Christopher Lee
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
James Fox
Mountbatten
Maria Aitken
Edwina
Shashi Kapoor
Narrator
Richard Lintern
Jinnah (Younger)
Indira Varma
Ruttie Jinnah
S
Sam Dastor
Gandhi
Robert Ashby
Nehru
Shireen Shah
Fatima Jinnah
Shakeel Yousuf
Liaquat Ali Khan
Ian Gelder
English Police Officer
Michael Elwyn
Sir Cyril Radcliffe
Crew
- Director
- Jamil Dehlavi
- Writer
- Akbar Ahmed, Jamil Dehlavi
- Director of Photography
- Nicholas D. Knowland
- Original Music Composer
- Michael Csányi-Wills, Nigel Clarke
- Editor
- Robert M. Reitano, Paul Hodgson
- Producer
- Jamil Dehlavi
Details
- Release date
- 1998-11-07
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- History, War, Drama
- Original language
- UR
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Pakistan
- Production
- Dehlavi Films, The Quaid Project, Petra Film
- Box office
- $230,000