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

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

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

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