this movie fail to offer anything new to a genre that have traditionally show the cross cultural love story underpin by the politics mid 20th century or pre wwii india and where the british and their modern way be bad and the primitive but honest and true indian be good . surely such clichéd depiction of the british be rather passé now . apart from the drama that fuel the second part of the movie the narrative be predictable and the acting be pedestrian and two dimensional and and the direct obvious and unimaginative . the story really need to be flesh out and would certainly have benefit from another half an hour of screen time to give the character and narrative more depth and give the viewer something to feel some investment in . all in all and rather uninspiring . oh and linus roache just can not do tragedy go cross eye with emotional pain just doesn not work for me .