03 September 2015
Newsdesk
Pathé and Reliance Entertainment announced that principal photography started on Sunday 30 August onVICEROY’S HOUSE. The film will shoot for 8 weeks in Jodhpur, India.
VICEROY’S HOUSE will be directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham) from a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges and Moira Buffini.
British cast are led by Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) as Lord Mountbatten; Gillian Anderson (The X Files, House of Mirth) as his wife, Lady Mountbatten; Lily Travers (Kingsman) as their daughter, Pamela; and Sir Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, Quartet) and Simon Callow (A Room With A View, Four Weddings and a Funeral) as key civil servants.
The Indian and Pakistani cast are led by Manish Dayal (The Hundred Foot Journey), Huma Qureshi (Gangs of Wasseypur) and Om Puri (The Hundred Foot Journey, East Is East). The roles of the principal political leaders are played by Tanveer Ghani (Nehru), Denzil Smith (Jinnah) and Neeraj Kabi (Gandhi)
Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India.
For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people.
Mountbatten lived upstairs together with his wife and daughter. Downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants.
Against this turbulent backdrop, the personal and the political became deeply entwined and a decision was taken that continues to reverberate through history.
The film is produced by Deepak Nayar (Bend it like Beckham, The End of Violence, Buena Vista Social Club), Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. The film is executive produced by Pathé’s Cameron McCracken, Reliance’s Shibasish Sarkar, BBC Films' Christine Langan, the BFI’s Ben Roberts and Ingenious Media’s Tim O’Shea.
The film is a Pathé, Reliance, BBC Films, Ingenious and BFI presentation of a Bend It Films/Deepak Nayar Production in association with the FilmVast and Filmgate Films.
Pathé will distribute the film in the UK and France and will handle sales throughout the rest of the world. Reliance Entertainment will distribute the film in India.
