Earth is a 1998 Hindi-language Drama Romance movie written and directed by Deepa Mehta and produced by Deepa Mehta and Anne Masson. Earth stars Aamir Khan, Rahul Khanna, Nandita Das, Maia Sethna, Babby Singh, Kitu Gidwani and Shabana Azmi. The motion picture is based on Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa. The music was composed by Ar Rahman along with A. R. Rahman. Cinematography was done by Giles Nuttgens and editing by Barry Farrell. The motion picture has a running time of 101 minutes. It was released on 23rd October 1999. 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.