India Synopsis
1947: Earth
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Earth. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 1997–1999 India Window
Earth holds position #26 of 55 India films in the 1997–1999 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in India, 147 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Earth premiered alongside 17 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 17 other India films in 1998.
The 265th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
32 audience reviews — more than 68% of India films in our index.
Review volume (68th percentile) outruns trending popularity (45th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Earth, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- war of independence · 3
- lahore · 2
- partition · 1
- based on novel or book · 288
- woman director · 246
- period drama · 37
- 1940s · 35
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #948 of 1,983 India films indexed here (52nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among India Drama productions specifically: #622 of 1,132 (top 55%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, India |
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Spoken Languages | English, Hindi |
| Production Companies | Cracking the Earth Films |
| Runtime | 1h 41m |
| Release Date | September 16, 1998 |
| IMDb | tt0150433 |