Shakespeare Wallah
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The film follows the story of nomadic British actors as they perform Shakespeare plays in towns in post-colonial India. Based on the real-life actor-manager Geoffrey Kendal's family and his travelling "Shakespeareana Company" Shashi Kapoor fell in love with Felicity's elder sister Jennifer Kendal in real life.
Credits
- Directed by
- James Ivory
- Written by
- James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Cast
- Laura Liddell, Shashi Kapoor, Ismail Merchant, Prayag Raj, Geoffrey Kendal, Partap Sharma, Madhur Jaffrey, Felicity Kendal, Utpal Dutt
- Produced by
- Ismail Merchant
- Cinematography
- Subrata Mitra
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Edited by
- Amit Bose
Sources
- Wikipedia (Movie Plots dataset) — title, year, description
- Wikidata · Q3481272 ↗ — creator, length, color, country, genre, credits
Record added 2026-09-26 18:25:30