Partition of India potential for increased violence, the new viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, advanced the date for the transfer of power, allowing less than six months for a mutually agreed plan for independence. In June 1947, the nationalist leaders, including Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad on behalf of the Congress, Jinnah representing the Muslim League, B. R. Ambedkar representing the Untouchable community, and Master Tara Singh representing the Sikhs, agreed to a partition of the country along religious lines in stark opposition to Gandhi's views. The predominantly Hindu and Sikh areas were assigned to the new India and predominantly Muslim areas to the new
Artistic depictions of the partition of India problems they face because of Partition. Directed by Ritwik Ghatak "Komal Gandhar" (1961), the protagonists suffer from the same anguish: the separation from their home, on the other side of the border. It was first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism, "Dharmputra" (1961) directed by Yash Chopra, two years after he made his debut with "Dhool Ka Phool" (1959), steeped in Nehruvian secularism, wherein a Muslim brings up an `illegitimate' Hindu child and featured classic song, "Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan ki aulaad hai, insaan banega", the theme was reverse in this film