The Colonizer-Colonized Relationship and Racism: 'Partition 2007' Movie Analysis

Abstract

This paper deals with analysing the film "Partition" 2007 that portrays the actions of violence and hatred between the two nations, Islamic, from one side, and Sikh and Hinduism, from the other side, during the partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan. This kind of film often addresses the problems that are consequences of colonial activities of the European countries on colonized nations. In fact, this hatred is one of the outcomes of British colonialism which was responsible for raising the racism between Muslim and other groups of Hindi society. It is known that analysing a film may deal with one of the following aspects of the author's work: the characters, the theme, the form, and the language. This paper is going to analyse the film 'partition' focusing on the themes mentioned in this film. This analysis will help in understanding the real relationship between Indian people and British, and between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims. Moreover, this paper will show the effects of the process of the partition upon the people of India till nowadays. This paper includes an introduction and three sections. In the first section, the writer presents the definitions of some postcolonial terms with their applications in the film. The second introduces India before and after the partition to give the reader more comprehension about the reasons for the partition. Section three includes a summary of the film 'partition' and the analysis of the themes that Vic Sarin addressed in the film. This paper found that the attempts of Britain to create racial segregation among Indian people succeeded in achieving some and failed in other goals.