With the 70th anniversary of India's independence looming, the much-anticipated latest from Gurinder Chadha (Bhaji on the Beach, Bend It Like Beckham) is a timely dramatisation of the stormy birth pains of post-colonial India and Pakistan.

Set in 1947, the film follows life inside the magnificent 340-room Viceroy's House where Lord Mountbatten (Hugh Bonneville) and his wife Lady Edwina (Gillian Anderson) are set on the impossible task of ensuring a smooth political transition; while an impossible love story develops between Muslim interpreter Aalia (Huma Qureshi) and Hindu servant Jeet (Manish Dayal) and the political elite (including Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi) converge to wrangle over the birth of independent India - with consequences that reverberate to this day...

We are delighted that director Gurinder Chadha will be here for a Q&A after the screening, hosted by Rife Magazine editor and author Nikesh Shukla.

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