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The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
15 May 1947, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England, UK
18 October 1950, Ambala, Punjab, India
10 November 1963, Paddington, London, England, UK
17 June 1983, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
29 September 1958, Bombay, State of Bombay, India
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
4 February 1961, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
25 June 1900, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
9 August 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2017
Anderson's performance is a meticulous assemblage of gestures and intonations -- stiff-necked posture together with an aristocratic drawl -- which sit oddly but believably with Edwina's liberal disposition and sharp instinct for game-playing.February 12, 2017
Chadha has distilled a fascinating and epic true story into a starchy, stuffy, sanitized period piece that never fully engages on an emotional or educational level.February 12, 2017
"Viceroy's House" clumsily merges a waxworks biographical study of Lord Louis and Lady Edwina Mountbatten ... with a passionless Romeo-and-Juliet romance between two of their servants caught in the fray.February 27, 2017
Clumsily fuses political drama with romantic melodrama.June 06, 2017
The film feels like a six-part miniseries, condensed.May 17, 2017
Fascinating, infuriating, entertaining and perhaps misleading.May 23, 2017
Jumping between bureaucratic manoeuvring and matters of the heart isn't always packaged with the smoothest transitions, and doesn't give either side of the story much depth.May 24, 2017
Chadha's passion is surely part of what makes Viceroy's House so accessible.February 17, 2017
This material could make for a powerful work, but "Viceroy's House" is certainly not it. The film's chief offense is its bland inoffensiveness.May 31, 2017
A strength of the film is its balanced nature. While events may not have taken place precisely as depicted, you do see varying points of view in deciding the right path to independence.