Shakespeare-Wallah
19652hNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Romance
Overview
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.
Keywords
- india
- theatrical troupe
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 1, 1965
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Hindi
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- Cast
- Marcus Murch,Felicity Kendal,Geoffrey Kendal,Hamid Sayani,Praveen Paul,Prayag Raj,Shashi Kapoor,Madhur Jaffrey,Pinchoo Kapoor,Utpal Duttand 6 more
- Director
- James Ivory
- Producer
- Ismail Merchant
- Cinematography
- Subrata Mitra
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0059709