#1. Viceroy's House (2017)

  • Rating: 6.7/10
  • Length: 105 mins
  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Director: Gurinder Chadha

Storyline: New Dehli, India, March 1947. The huge and stately Viceroy's Palace is like a beehive. Its five hundred employees are busy preparing the coming of Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), who has just been appointed new (and last) Viceroy of India by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Mountbatten, whose difficult task consists of overseeing the transition of British India to independence, arrives at the Palace, accompanied by Edwina (Gillian Anderson), his liberal-minded wife and Pamela (Lily Travers), his eighteen-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, in the staff quarters, a love story is born between Jeet Kumar (Manish Dayal), a Hindu, and Aalia Noor (Huma Qureshi), a Muslim beauty. Things will prove to be difficult, not to say very difficult, on the geopolitical and personal level.—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: lord, wife, daughter, servant, staff member, moving, emotional ...

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#2. Baadshaho (2017)

  • Rating: 4.9/10
  • Length: 136 mins
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery, Thriller
  • Director: Milan Luthria

Storyline: Baadshaho is inspired by real-life events during the Emergency and revolves around stolen gold, a thief (Ajay Devgn), an army officer (Vidyut Jammwal), a character inspired by Maharani Gayatri Devi. Maharani Gitanjali Devi (Ileana D'Cruz) from one of the Rajasthan's Princely States has already lost her privy purse. The story revolves around a group of thugs who decide to loot the gold confiscated from Rani Gitanjali, and being transported to Delhi by road.—Khalid

Plot Keywords: princess, bodyguard, lieutenant, major, army officer, prime minister, thrilling ...

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