TY - ADVS AU - Mehta,Deepa AU - Khan,Aamir AU - Das,Nandita AU - Khanna,Rahul AU - Sidhwa,Bapsi ED - Cracking the Earth Films, Inc. ED - New Yorker Video (Firm) TI - Earth SN - 1567302335 AV - CM DVD 00085 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2003/// CY - [New York, NY] PB - New Yorker Video KW - India KW - History KW - Partition, 1947 KW - Drama KW - Bharata KW - Aithihasa KW - Cinima KW - Feature films KW - Motion pictures, Indic KW - Videos (DVD) KW - local N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1999; Based on the book Cracking India (previously published as: Ice-candy-man) by Bapsi Sidhwa; Letterboxed; Features: original theatrical trailer; Cinematography, Giles Nuttgens ; editor, Barry Farrell ; music, A.R. Rahman; Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - A romantic drama set in 1947 in Lahore before India and Pakistan became independent, where Hindu, Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence. Events are seen from the point of view of eight-year-old Lenny, a girl from an affluent Parsee family. Lenny's nanny, Shantya, is involved with the Muslim Masseur. When a train of Muslims arrives at the local depot and all the passengers are found murdered, the various sects turn against each other, and the city is soon aflame ER -