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Tryst with Destiny was a speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. The speech was made to the Indian Constituent Assembly, on the eve of India's Independence, towards midnight on 14 August 1947. It focuses on the aspects that transcend India's history. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all time [1] and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the hundred-year non-violent Indian freedom struggle against the British Empire in India.The phrase Rendezvous with destiny was used by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1936 Democratic National Convention speech , inspiring the similar phrase Tryst with destiny by Jawaharlal Nehru.
The speech is referenced in the 1998 Hindi film Earth directed by Deepa Mehta. The film portrays the main characters listening to the speech on radio, against the backdrop of the Hindu-Muslim riots following the Partition of India. This provides an interesting juxtaposition between the realities of Partition and the optimism that followed Independence.[3]
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi a Hindi film by Sudhir Mishra that portrayed the political and social turbulence of the late 1960s and the '70s in India contains a clip of the speech and the narrative voice speaks of the souring of Nehru's dream within two decades of Independence.
The musical group Kobo Town uses sound clips from this speech in their song Sing Out, Shout Out from their album Independence
In the Kamal Hassan movie 'Hey Ram', parts of the speech are heard in the background to sound to the audience the timeline of the happenings in the movie. This scene follows the scene in which Gandhi is seen for the first time in the movie. Also it rightly shows that Gandhi was in Bengal on the eve of Independence.
The book Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie is a reference to this speech.

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