Which among the following film is NOT based on 'Partition'?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Mother India
Garam Hawa (directed by M.S. Sathyu), Tamas (Govind Nihalani) and Meghe Dhaka Tara (Ritwik Ghatak) are films on Partition. Mother India is not one of them; it tells the story of a poor village mother’s struggle, not of Partition.
Note 1: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Understanding Partition’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
Note 2: The film Mother India is not in NCERT (2026-27); it is explained here for the benefit of the students.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “3.1 Culminating point of a long history? … Yet it would be incorrect to see Partition as the outcome of a simple unfolding of communal tensions. As the protagonist of Garm Hawa, a film on Partition, puts it, ‘Communal discord happened even before 1947 but it had never led to the uprooting of millions from their homes’.…”
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