1947 Earth

With Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, newcomer Rahul Khanna and many other supporting cast, the movie revolves around residents of Lahore during the partition.
Das is the nanny and servant in a Farsi household. The Farsi child enjoys Das' company with the other men, who are struck by Das' beauty. One of them is Khan, who is a trickster and an ice cream man. He earns his living many ways. He loves Das, but openly flirts with her. On the other hand, Khanna, the masseur, is more gentlemanly and after expressing his love for Das, she reciprocates.
At the time of the partition, there is unrest and violent feelings within the hearts of the people, who are bloodthirsty to avenge people of other religion. Considering Lahore was going to become part of Pakistan, all non Muslims are forced to move to India in some way. After a certain time, the rest of the non Muslims who are left, are killed and tortured.
Khan is vengeful and proposes to Das, but she refuses and later, Khan witnesses Das and Khanna in love. He becomes even more mad. In the climax and the final scene of twist, we can see him taking revenge.
Although the movie was seemingly crossing boundaries in Indian cinema, the last scene of climax itself was worth watching the movie. The passions and sensualities could have been more subtly shown and the involvement of a child in these scenes seemed really unethical. But an OK movie to watch for the concept and theme, definitely not with children though.