Earth
by Deepa Mehta
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Actor: Babby Singh, Kitu Gidwani, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Maia Sethna, Nandita DasDirector: Deepa Mehta
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Hindi (Original Language); Punjabi (Original Language); Urdu (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Earth
Movie Review: Nice, but not exciting.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is set in India in the late 1898 according to the beginning of the movie. It is about the Religious differences that occur because of the British invasion to divide India. Their is a smaller story that takes effect, the nanny and her muslim friends who propose to her, one is rejected and the other she agrees to marry. You don't know what happens to the nanny in the end, the movie gives you three options of what may have happened. The story is told by the young girl who is watched by the nanny, she tells you what may have happened to the nanny in the end, but even she doesn't know. The movie follows for 50 years, at 1947 at the end of the movie, the little girl is all grown up and she says its 50 years later and she doesn't know what happened to her nanny.
Also, when the Muslim "sisters" are killed, its not actual sisters, its Muslim sisters, as in sisters of the faith. Another reviewer didn't see that. Just thought I would clarify
If you like historical type movies you will enjoy this one. I had to keep the subtitles on to understand what they were saying because of the thick accents.
Summary of Earth
Earth, The second film in Deepa Mehta's controversial trilogy is an emotionally devastating love story set within the sweeping social upheaval and violence of 1947 India. As her country teeters on the brink of self rule and instability, 8-year old Lenny, an innocent girl from an affluent family, is in danger of having her world turned upside down. As the simmering violence around them reaches a boiling point, Lenny's beautiful nanny Shanta (Nandita Das) falls in love with one of Lenny's heroes,. the charismatic and peace-advocating Hassan. Love, however, can be dangerous when religious differences are tearing the country apart, and friendships and loyalty are put to the test. Building to a shattering climax, Earth is a devastating human drama in which desire unfolds into a stirring tale of love and the ultimate betrayal.A tragedy set against the ethnic violence of India's independence in 1947, the second film in Deepa Mehta's elemental India trilogy is even more incendiary than her controversial Fire. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Parsees alike buzz like bees around the lovely flower Shanta (Nandita Das), the Hindu nanny of sheltered 8-year-old Parsee girl Lenny-baby. This sunny Eden of racial harmony plunges into darkness when independence brings the partition of the empire and sets ethnic groups against one another in civil war. As seen through the naive eyes of little Lenny-baby, Earth is more tragic melodrama than social history, but what Mehta's adaptation of Bapsi Sidhwa's autobiographical novel Cracking India lacks in insight, it makes up for in fiery imagery, emotional passion, and a heavy-hearted longing for the paradise lost. --Sean Axmaker
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