| Lenny (MAIA AETHNA) is an eight year old Parsee girl who is growing up in pre-partition Lahore in 1947, enjoying the warm, enveloping life that loving parents and filial household staff of four brings. Lenny travels daily to the nearby Queens Gardens with her beautiful Ayah (nanny) Shanta (NANDITA DAS), a young Hindu woman with the kind of curves and smile that ensures a constant supply of eager male suitor. 1947 The Earth is a story of the Partition seen through the eyes of young Lenny turning her world upside down. A Story of savagery and massacre in the name of religion. Hindus and Sikhs attacking Muslims; Muslims attacking Hindus and Sikhs. From the rooftop of Lennys house, Lenny sees Sikhs slaughtering Muslims, Hindus butchering Muslims and Muslims burning Hindus alive. Lenny takes you into the pre-partition & post-partition era where there is savagery between Hindus and Muslims on side and love blooming between Hindu and Muslim on the other side. 1947 The Earth is the story of the division of one secular country into two countries on basis of religions Hindu & Muslim. The destruction of innocence by desire and greed wearing the grab of religion and nationalism was the price of this sectarian war. |
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