Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
19652h 0mDramaRomance
The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
Cast
Shashi KapoorSanju
Felicity KendalLizzie Buckingham- GGeoffrey KendalMr. Tony Buckingham
- LLaura LiddellMrs. Carla Buckingham
Madhur JaffreyManjula
Utpal DuttMaharaja- PPraveen PaulDidi
Prayag RajSharmaji
Pinchoo KapoorGuptaji- JJim D. TytlerBobby
- HHamid SayaniHeadmaster's Brother
- MMarcus MurchDandy in 'The Critic'
- PPartap SharmaAslam
- SSudarshan DhirManjula's Dance Director (uncredited)
Jennifer KendalMrs. Bowen (uncredited)
Ismail MerchantTheater Owner (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- James Ivory
- Producers
- Ismail Merchant
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Cinematography
- Subrata Mitra
- Editing
- Amit Bose
Details
- Released
- December 1, 1965
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- IMDb
- tt0059709