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War and Peace

War and Peace

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  • India
  • 2002
  • · 148m

Director Anand Patwardhan
Cast Anand Patwardhan, Raja Ramanna, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sheema Kermani
Genre Documentary

This documentary examines the history and current state of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. With a sweeping focus and a heavy use of interviews with ordinary citizens, this film draws insight into the way power, politics, and international conflict have shaped the state of nuclear tensions in both countries and around the world.

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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Mr. Patwardhan has located so much information and found so many willing interview subjects that his War and Peace has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title.

70

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

Immersed in popular culture, War and Peace makes it clear that India's nuclear mania appeals not only to religious chauvinism, primitive nationalism, and a desire for modernity but, even more dangerously, to a festering sense of inferiority.

70

Variety by David Stratton

Though long-winded and discursive, the professionally assembled material is of immense interest and importance in reminding the viewer of the threat to world peace posed by the continuing posturing on the subcontinent.

40

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Patwardhan offers no solutions, but poses disturbing questions.