Anita Rani
Presenter
My Family, Partition and Me: India 1947 (2017)
Miniseries
Anita Rani explores the human impact of the Partition of India in 1947 through the dramatic stories of four British families, including her own.
Released Aug. 8, 2017
Episode 59 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.partition-of-india, imdb.hindu, imdb.british-history, imdb.india, imdb.indian-history + 5 more, imdb.pakistan, imdb.british-asian, imdb.family-history, imdb.muslim, imdb.sikh
Production Companies: Wall to Wall
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
Hindi,
English,
Bengali,
Urdu
S1E1 - Episode 1
Binita Kane travels to Bangladesh to discover what happened when her Hindu father Bim had to flee his ancestral village as a young boy. Mandy Duke travels to Calcutta, scene of some of the worst partition violence, to uncover the amazing story of her grandfather Arthur Wise, who filmed there as violence broke out. And Asad Ali Syed and his grandson Sameer, two British Muslims with Pakistani heritage, journey to the Indian town of Ambala, to search for the house where Asad was born before his family were forced to flee to Pakistan.
Aug. 9, 2017, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Anita begins her own partition journey as she and her mother Lucky become the first members of their family to return to what is now Pakistan since the Partition of India. In the Punjabi village where her Sikh grandfather's first family were slaughtered, Anita meets locals who were eyewitnesses to that terrible event.
Aug. 16, 2017, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 59 min.
Released: Aug. 8, 2017
Last Air Date: Aug. 16, 2017, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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