Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah? Founder of Pakistan. Movie on TCM 7 p.m. CDT

[trof]

Damn, read and learn my friends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah

From imdb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183306/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I had no idea.

[JI7]

1. his family lives in India and are not Muslims

They are involved in Indian beauty pageants

[Ilsa]

2. There is a book called Midnight's Furies...

and a subtitle. It is about just before and then after the division of India. Jinnah, Nehru, Ghandi, and the viceroy Mountbatten and some terrifying sikhs are covered thoroughly.

Jinnah was intelligent, not a devout muslim, educated in England. He smoked and drank alcohol.

Did you know "Pakistan" is sort of an acronym? P - Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind, Baluchistan.

Enjoy the movie. Good book.

[msanthrope]

3. Midnight's Children by Rushdie? Because that, my friend, is well worth the read. nt

[Ilsa]

5. No, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by

Nisid Hajari.

These people of different beliefs and faith lived and worked next to each other for hundreds of years. Then, as British colonialism was ending, they simply decided they didn't want to any more. And it was brutal. The turnover and then the splitting were disastrous.

The author wonders about how our geopolitics would be different if they had not partitioned.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The film never came out in Western cinemas

"The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an actor was a film I did about the founder of Pakistan, called Jinnah," he said.

"It had the best reviews I've ever had in my entire career - as a film and as a performance. But ultimately it was never shown at the cinemas."

Filmed seven years ago in Pakistan, Jinnah was never released on the big screen - though it was applauded at film festivals around the world and later appeared on satellite television.
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The film, which was also the subject of unspecified legal wrangles, was finally released on DVD earlier this month and according to a delighted Lee is selling extremely well, but clearly its thwarted release remains a disappointment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3733894.stm