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Shakespeare Wallah
Theatrical poster
Directed byJames Ivory
Written byRuth Prawer Jhabvala
Produced byIsmail Merchant
StarringShashi Kapoor
Jennifer Kendal
Felicity Kendal
Madhur Jaffrey
Geoffrey Kendal
Partap Sharma
Music bySatyajit Ray
Release date
1965
Running time
120 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film US
LanguageEnglish

Shakespeare Wallah is a 1965 Merchant Ivory Productions film. The story and screenplay are by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Madhur Jaffrey won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival for her performance.[1]

Plot

Loosely based on the real-life Kendal family, this film follows the story of nomadic British actors as they perform in towns in post-colonial India performing plays by Shakespeare. In this story, Tony Buckingham (Geoffrey Kendal) and his wife Carla (Laura Liddell) oversee the troupe. Their daughter, Lizzie Buckingham (Felicity Kendal), falls in love with Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), who is also romancing Manjula (Madhur Jaffrey) a Bollywood film star.

Cast

Trivia

  • Rather than Felicity, Shashi Kapoor fell in love with her elder sister Jennifer Kendal in real life. Their marriage would provide an important contribution to the Indian film industry until Kendal's death in 1984.

References

  1. ^ "Berlinale 1965: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-02-21.