OlderKristin Kreuk in Partition
Partition Synopsis :: Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry) resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, traumatized by the events that separated her from her family. Slowly, resisting all the taboos, Gian finds himself falling in love with the vulnerable Naseem (Kristin Kreuk) and she shyly responds. In a moving and epic story, woven into a rich and exotic tapestry, they battle the forces that haunt their innocent love, fighting the odds to survive in a world surrounded by hate.
23-year-old actress Kristin Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang on Smallville, is set to play a 17-year-old Muslim girl named Naseem Khan in Partition, a film about the division between Pakistan and India. Neve Campbell, 32, also stars in this film and will play the passionate but lonely Margaret Stilwell, a woman who helps Gian Singh. More pictures in the gallery! ¶ I haven’t been too impressed with Kristin’s acting in Smallville but I’m cautiously optimistic about her role in Partition (Release Date :: Tentative Spring 2006). Watch the trailer below and share your thoughts. Do you think Kristin Kruek has the looks and the acting chops to pull off a Muslim Pakistani girl? Do you believe Kristin and Neve’s accents?
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OH PLEASE! As a Los Angeles born Pakistani who works in film, you’ve GOT to be KIDDING me! There are so many talented Asian (read: Indian/Pakistani) actresses out there and they had to cast someone from the WB (sorry, I mean the CW)?! This is just plain laziness in casting.
This is completely ridiculous! I will not see this movie for the sole reason that both Neve and Kristin’s accents are HORRENDOUS! What the hell is Neve supposed to be anyway, English, Irish?! Horrible! Don’t freakin tell me that out of a population of 2 billion there isn’t one chick who knows English and either has a REAL Pakistani accent or can successfully imitate one. Give me a break….
i think that this movie is going to be AMAZING! who cares if kristin isn’t pakistan descent, but the fact that she can pull it off…and i think that’s what makes her a great actress. i really believe that she pulled it off…but i really had no doubts, b/c she is a GREAT actress. and i agree with some of you about kristin being very UNDERATED! i think that she is one of those actresses that has everything, beauty, intelligence and the "balls" to do a hard and controversial role. she isnt like lohan, jesicca and all those stereotypical girls from hollywood. but then again, thats why i love her.
I applaud Kristin for taking on a role like this. The fact that she’s not actually Pakistani is a non-issue. None of the leads in Memoirs of a Geisha were Japanese either, that’s not really the point of filmmaking. You judge the FINAL product. I also think, that along with the rest of the cast, she’s improved on Smallville with each new season. It’s wonderful for her to be stretching her wings like this. She’s an amazing natural beauty too, something very rare these days.
this is a good essay to readhttp://www.pulpanddagger.com/movies/essay_31.htmlgoes with the topic being discussed here
I have seen many Pakistani girls that look like Kristin
FINALLY! Just Jared posts a Kristin Kreuk related blog!O how I’ve waited for this day!
WoW! I just finished watching the trailer and this film looks good. Granted it is hard to judge a whole film from a brief trailer but it did leave me quite impressed. Kristin looks absolutely amazing in those pictures and in the trailer. I am glad to see her branching off …I wish her all the best. I was also happy to see Neve C. I assume this is an indipendent film? Any scheduled release date?
People can ONLY talk about how they casted a non-muslim for the role…. shame on however does. Kristin is beautiful for the part!! Her accent way believable…why don’t all of you who are complaining about the movie wait to actually SEE the movie, then whine. Absurd!! Anyways, I think she is going to be perfect in the film.
I don’t see why they have to cast a person for a specific nationality to play someone of a specific nationality! That is absurd! Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale played greeks in Captain Corelli’s mandolin, does that mean that I (greek) should be offended?? that is ridiculous! Cast choices are not made simply by ethnicity. They felt she had a combination of elements to bring to the part and they cast her, big deal! That’s why it’s called ACTING and not reality. The actor doesn’t have to be what he or she represents.Never Campbell and her CRAPPY ASS "accent" on the other hand is an unforgivable casting mistake. Yeuch!
Honestl people its about the acting, despite what ethnicity the person is, i mean thats why we go too see the movie cinematogrophy good script and good acting i mean give her a chance, i mean for christ sakes the guy was in the guru,http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/65/0792269365.jpgLOok at the PICTURE
well said blundht
I’m **** born and I have no problem with Kristin playing a Pakistani. Sure they could have gone with an actual south asian actress but at the end of the day, as a fan of hers I have no problem with her representing my nationality and given the fact she committed to it, its fine good exposure for us. As far as her acting being wooden, she’s not a natural actress, she only started acting like 5 years back and yeah it was essentially cause of her looks the Edgemont/Smallville producers got her but she seems grounded and this role gives her an oppurtuinty to try something slightly different. So what if she’s typecast somebody’s gotta play him. Even in atrocious smallville episodes where she was a possesed witch or an vampire she seemed to be having more fun that playing Lana.Let’s support this girl, it is tough that she’s been in roles with hard core fanboys who dont like the adaptions of movies/shows she was in (Earthsea. Superman/Smallville) but end of the day, I hope she commits to her role and give it her best. That may sound unbelivabley sappy but that’s just my thought on itI heard rumours she might star in Steve Carrell’s remake of "Get Smart" (Steve approached her agent about it). Let’s hope she does big things!
My grandfather’s brother-in-law was born and raised in Pakistan - but ethnically of ethnic Pakistani and Chinese descent - because outlying China is located so closely to Pakistan. His mother was a former Buddhist convert who moved out for job opportunities in the early 1900’s. It doesn’t mean much… but Chinese people conceiving babies with ethnically Pakistani people DOES occur, FYI.
Hey does anyone know what the song is that plays about half way through the trailer, right after Neve Cambell says, "I’m still waiting for a response to my request/The child will be grown up by the time you get to her case!"???? Its such a nice song and i know i’ve heard it before but i don’t know from where or what its called. Can anyone help??? Please!
Oh and one more thing, the idiotic, "thundering", extremely americanized voice in the beginning pretty much sets this movie up to be another crappy, sappy love story, just in "new" setting. It doesn’t help to see this movie as something special and different. Why do they still do trailers with these stupid voices in America???? It is sooooo annoying. It gives me a negative feeling even if the movie would be worth a watch.
This is a Canadian movie, not a American movie.and the song you’re asking about is "Nara" by E.S. Posthumus.I loved that song for the longest, hearing it in the trailer for a Kristin Kreuk movie just makes me love it even more!
OMG thank you SO much Arelis!!! That song is beautiful, i love it! Wow, i had no idea it was the Cold Case theme and used in Unfaithful. Oh and the fact Partition is a Canadian movie helps make more sense on Kristen’s casting. She is quite popular over there :)
To All of you who have no problem with a non **** playing a **** role:When will it stop? A Pakistani actress was not picked to play June Carter in Walk The Line or would never be considered.A Pakistani actress was not picked to play in North Country instead of Charlize Theron.A Pakistani actress was not picked to play Angelina’s role in Mr & Mrs Smith.It is a joke. It is lazy casting and it is once again a way to make sure White people go see the film.There are plenty of GORGEOUS Pakistani actresses. I have Pakistani friends and they are GORGEOUS and talented but they NEVER get acting work.Please - the industry sucks. it is the same industry who could not find it in their hearts to find one NOT ONE Japanese actress for Memoirs of A Geisha - a film about one of the oldest and most Japansese traditions.Why don’t we go back to the 40’s and 50’s when White actors wore make-up to make their eyes look Asian to play Asian characters?Why don’t we go back to the days of White actors wearing Black face?There is no excuse this day in age to not find an actor from the culture you are portraying - unless it is a role that calls for non-traditional casting.Hollywood does not cast Black and ethnic actors in roles that call for a White actress yet they are quick to cast a White actress in roles that call for ethnic actors.It is a double stasndard and it sucks. Until, we crtiicize it, it will never change. Write letters to the film company. Believe me, it makes a difference.
What type of roles should be given to Kristin then? Just half Asian/white roles?I remember when Kristin first started on Smallville people were bitching from the moon and back about Lana being played by a half Asian actress, that when did Lana becomes Asian?!Kristin will never win with any role she may get if the roles aren’t a role for a halfie like her.Again this movie isn’t a Hollywood movie it’s a UK/Candia film, by a Indian director.
Kristin can have access to both Asian and White roles since she is biracial - I don’t have a problem with that.We are not talking about race here, we are talking about culture.The Pakistani culture is a very specific one. I don’t even think an Indian actress should be considered for that role. To do so is to suggest Pakistani and Indians are the same - they are not.There are plenty of gorgeous Pakistani actresses who are talented. This is all wishful thinking because Hollywood is too screwed up to change - but we the audience can put the pressure on them to have more respect for people’s cultures.Zhang Yii may look Japanese but she was not she is Chinese. There is a HUGE difference. When I refer to Hollywood, I am regerring to Candian and American or any other film industry. If the director is Indian, he should more than ayone else understand the ongoing strife between Indians & Pakistanis and Pakistanis (at least the ones I know) don’t take nicely to people thinking they are interchangeable with other Asian groups.Like in Memoirs of a Geisha, Chinse is not Japanese! Obviously, a lot of Whites seem to think so.
As I have said before, I have a wayyyyyy bigger problem with Neve Campbell "portraying" a british woman. It’s not ALL about colour is it? I also have a problem with hiring Nicole Kidman to play a "plain" looking woman by adding a prosthetic nose. That is way more stupid I believe. I find the notion of ONLY hiring people of the same nationality boring and unnecessary. This girl is already famous and well liked to the most part, the studio wants to make money from a name and a face that is already well known, she looks "ethnic and exotic", there you have it. It’s not like she is blonde and pasty white!It’s not about whether or not the actress is of the same colour and-or nationality, but whether the story and the part do justice to the nationalities and circumstances they refer to. Anything else I think is sweating the details and it sounds extreme to me.
hehe by the way, according to imdb, Jimi Mistry’s mother is irish and his father is indian, and he himself is british… Should HE also only get mixed nationality parts? Or maybe only indian-irish parts? That is absurd.
So what parts would #47 and #48 suggest Pakistani actresses be offered in Western films? They are certainly not getting the Reese Whitherspoon parts?Since a Pakistani role can, as you suggest, go to a biracial or White woman - what does that leave for the Pakistani actresses? Plesae explain…..Also, you avoid the issue brought up earlier - should we go back to White actors in blackface too? Should we hire Reese Witherspoon to play a Black actress in let’s say "Boyz In The Hood 2"?Because Pakistanis are of a different race and since it is ok for White actresses to portray them - should Gwyneth Paltrow wear make-up to make her eyes look Asian and play in Memoirs of A Geisha 2?
I read in an article that the director purposely casted a non-****/indian actress for the lead, to show that the themes of the movie were universal.KK has improved so much since she’s started acting on SV five years ago. The movie looks good, I can’t wait to see it.!
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