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World Service,22 Feb 2000,27 mins

Indian Cinema tackles Partition

Meridian

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Hey Ram, Kamal Haasan's film about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, is the first Indian film to address the complex issues of Partition and Hindu-Muslim violence around that time. Plus, the 75th anniversary of The New Yorker magazine; the re-opening of the National Gallery of Art in Kabul, Afghanistan, after eight years but without human portraits; Magnolia wins the Golden Bear at the 50th Berlin Film Festival.

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