Set in the years surrounding independence in India, this slightly melodramatic film has a strong emotional kick that manages to bring both the romance and the religious-political situation vividly to life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2008

In short, Partition is a watchable slice of melodrama that's worth seeing for the performances of the three leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It is, however, watchable throughout as a document about the individual human tragedies that the advent of Partition threw up.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

If feeling alone were the benchmark of great art, Vic Sarin's film would be considerable, but the screenplay is desperately poor and the direction leaden.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The film is breathless, big-canvased and scored for big emotions: a pavilion of the heart and senses threatened only when characters open a flap to let in anachronistic dialogue or the giveaways of cross-culture casting.

| Sep 12, 2008

Sarin acts as his own DoP and the lensing is unsurprisingly ace, but he's at a loss when it comes to injecting pace and tension. Bollywood's Gadar told the same story better in 2001...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Mistry and the Canadian-born Kreuk deliver workmanlike performances even if the film has the feel of the Sunday night 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Sep 12, 2008

Dull historical epic set during the Indian massacres of 1947.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

But this is a film that lumbers under its epic ambitions and at nearly two hours long - with some awkward plotting to boot - scenes drag, grand and momentous, but crushing anything so fragile as human feelings.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It's the taboo and tender romance between Mistry and Kreuk that will shift the serious tickets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

A brave if earnest attempt to articulate historical issues that remain pertinent.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The period reconstructions are impressive but the script and direction are a little pedestrian.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 12, 2008

More melodramatic than momentous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 8, 2008

Partition doesn't add many new ideas to the mix, but the deep colors and complex textures supplied by Indian-born cinematographer-turned-director Vic Sarin seem to embody the intensity of his boyhood memories.

| Mar 27, 2008

Since the story didn't draw me in too much I frequently found myself admiring the intricate scenery instead.

| Oct 13, 2007

Disappointing simply because it is so close to being outstanding; we're left with a sense that some key scenes explaining the characters' motivations are missing.

Full Review | Original Score: 69/100 | Jun 23, 2007

Bloated, melodramatic and unbearably tedious.

| Feb 6, 2007

Where the film stumbles is the script, overcrowded with bits of business and scenes that lean heavily on the symbolic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2007

[Director] Sarin was aiming for an epic and arrived at episodic. That might have been okay if the episodes weren't so partitioned from each other, the flashbacks failing to illuminate the present action.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 2, 2007