Films set in the partition of India

1982 film directed by Richard Attenborough

1999 film by Deepa Mehta

2013 Indian Hindi-language film

2000 Tamil film directed by Kamal Haasan

1998 film by Jamil Dehlavi

2012 film by Deepa Mehta

2001 film by Anil Sharma

2017 film directed by Gurinder Chadha

2015 film by Pawan Wadeyar

2000 Indian film directed by J. P. Dutta

2023 film by Prashanth Neel

2003 film by Chandraprakash Dwivedi on Hindu-Muslim conflict during partition of India.

1973 film by M. S. Sathyu

2019 film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar

2013 film directed by Anup Singh

2007 film by Vic Sarin

1960 Indian film by Ritwik Ghatak

Dharmputra is a 1961 Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra based on a novel of the same name by Acharya Chatursen. This is Yash's second directorial venture. It was the first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism. Produced by his elder brother B.R. Chopra, who was himself uprooted from Lahore, during the partition of India and established B.R. Films in Mumbai in 1956. The film dealt with issues of religious bigotry, fanaticism and communalism amidst the backdrop of the partition. Two years earlier, Yash Chopra had made his debut with Dhool Ka Phool (1959), steeped

2003 film by Sabiha Sumar

2023 film directed by Anil Sharma

2017 Hindi film by Srijit Mukherji

1965 film by Ritwik Ghatak

2024 Indian Hindi-language film

1988 film by Govind Nihalani

2018 film directed by Nandita Das

Chhalia is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Manmohan Desai. It stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran, Rehman and Shobhna Samarth. The story is loosely based on the 1848 short story "White Nights" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but is focused on the issue of estranged wives and children in the aftermath of partition. Chhalia was shot in black-and-white. Music by Kalyanji-Anandji, played a part in the film's box office success.

1998 film directed by Pamela Rooks

The Bengal Files is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language political drama propaganda film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. It presents a storyline focused on the Direct Action Day and the Noakhali riots, depicting the violence and its aftermath as a genocide. The film stars Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar, Anupam Kher and Simrat Kaur.

2014 film directed by William Riead

Nagarik (), also spelled as Nagorik (), was the first feature-length film directed by legendary Indian director Ritwik Ghatak. Completed in 1952, it preceded Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali as perhaps the first example of an art film in Bengali cinema, but is deprived of that honor, since it was released twenty-four years later, after Ghatak's death. On 20 September 1977, it finally premiered at the New Empire theatre in Kolkata, India. Ghatak directed only eight feature films, but is generally regarded as one of the auteurs of Indian cinema and virtually unsurpassed as a creator of powerful im

2017 film by Karim Traïdia

1999 film by Manoj Punj, Shamim Ara

Rajkahini ( Tale of Kings, can also be called Tale of the Raj) is an Indian Bengali-language epic period action drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji. The shooting of the film was completed in June 2015 and the film was released on 16 October 2015. The film has an ensemble cast of eleven major female characters led by Rituparna Sengupta and also stars Saswata Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Jisshu Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee and Jaya Ahsan in other pivotal roles. The film was a critical and commercial success. It has since then been remade in Hindi by Mukherji as Begum Jaan.

1992 film by Buddhadeb Dasgupta

1974 film by Ritwik Ghatak

2018 film by Reema Kagti