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Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
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December 1965 (UK) morePlot:
The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
Based On True StoryAwards:
1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Early Merchant-Ivory is Diamond in the Rough moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Shashi Kapoor | ... | Sanju |
| Felicity Kendal | ... | Lizzie Buckingham |
| Geoffrey Kendal | ... | Mr. Tony Buckingham |
| Laura Liddell | ... | Mrs. Carla Buckingham |
| Madhur Jaffrey | ... | Manjula |
| Utpal Dutt | ... | Maharaja |
| Praveen Paul | ... | Didi |
| Prayag Raj | ... | Sharmaji (as Prayag Raaj) |
| Pinchoo Kapoor | ... | Guptaji |
| Jim D. Tytler | ... | Bobby (as Jim Tytler) |
| Hamid Sayani | ... | Headmaster's Brother |
| Marcus Murch | ... | Dandy in 'The Critic' |
| Pratap Sharma | ... | Aslam |
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This early (if not first) Merchant-Ivory collaboration anticipates what the team was later able to do with larger budgets and color cinematography. Set in post-independence India, it tells the story of a small, though thoroughly professional traveling Shakespeare company fallen on hard times. The troop, built on the talents of the three Buckingham family members, including the young and fetching daughter Lizzie, is slowly dissolving in a culture increasingly hostile to their art and readier to worship the queens of the silly Indian pop cinema.
The main thread of the plot concerns a rather thin romance between Lizzie and a young Indian playboy quite under the thumb of a local movie vixen named Manula. Meanwhile we are given snippets from various Shakespeare plays: Hamlet, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra.
Fine B&W photography, though much in this film seems dated now.