Shatranj Ke Khiladi

Genre: drama

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Satyajit Ray

Credits: Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal

Description: Satyajit Ray portrays the Nawab as an extravagant but sympathetic figure. The film shows in parallel the historical drama of the Indian kingdom Awadh and its Muslim Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who is overthrown by the British. Parallel to this wider drama is the personal (and sometimes humorous) tale of two rich noblemen of this kingdom, Mirza Sajjad Ali and Mir Roshan Ali. Inseparable friends, the two nobles became passionately obsessed with the game of shatranj (chess)

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