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Shakespeare Wallah is a 1965 Merchant Ivory Productions film. The story and screenplay are by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, about a travelling family theatre troupe of English actors in India, who perform Shakespeare plays in towns across India, amidst a dwindling demand for their work and the rise of Bollywood.
Tony (Geoffrey Kendal) and Carla Buckingham (Laura Liddell) and their acting company journey through India performing Shakespearean plays. When their daughter Lizzie (Felicity Kendal) loses her...
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- Shashi Kapoor
- James Ivory
- Drama
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.
Shakespeare Wallah. The story of a family troupe of English actors in India, travelling around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. The second film from the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala collaboration: despite occasional longueurs, a hauntingly funny, rather Chekhovian piece about a group of English-led...
Like its title, Shakespeare Wallah is a film of unexpected juxtapositions and cultural conflict; it is a look at changing values in art, and an examination of the question of what it means to be indigenous to a place.
1965 India Directed by James Ivory Produced by Ismail Merchant Written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory Featuring Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal
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