Right before Independence Day, Rishi Kapoor woots for ‘Partition: 1947’

Huma Qureshi is making her international debut with Gurinder Chadha’s period drama ‘Partition: 1947’. The film is set to unveil the hidden facts that we aren’t aware of, the ones behind the India-Pakistan partition. It has received positive response from the critics in International film festivals and now it is all set to reach out to the masses in India. The trailer of this film itself invokes the sense of patriotism in this film and as India celebrates its 71st Independence Day this August 15, Rishi Kapoor took to his Twitter handle to woot for this film.

He tweeted the trailer of the film and captioned it as, “@humasqureshi @GurinderC and #Partition 1947 releasing August 18th.” [sic] He did his bid to create awareness about ‘Partition: 1947’ by promoting the trailer of the same.

https://t.co/JxlXjeWhQV @humasqureshi @GurinderC and #Partition 1947 releasing August 18th

— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) August 14, 2017

‘Partition: 1947’ has been renamed from ‘Viceroy’s House’, for the Indian audience. It is a story about a Muslim woman played by Huma Qureshi falling in love with a Hindu boy named by Manish Dayal. Their love saga suffers the test of time as the country is on the verge of getting divided. Huma plays a role of translator of Lord Mountbatten, who is in charge of drawing the line between India and Pakistan. (Also Check: ‘Partition: 1947’ trailer: Hidden facts come to surface with this Huma Qureshi-starrer)

Gurinder Chadha, the director of this film, is quite impressed with the Bollywood actress. In many of her interviews, she has just had kind words to say about her. Further, Huma had also revealed that she had to audition for this role. “I didn’t go looking for an international project or a Hollywood film. Gurinder Chadha was making a film about the Partition. She wanted an Indian actor. Her casting director sent me the script and asked me to read it and also send an audition tape,” the actress had quipped.

Nikita Thakkar

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