Shakespeare Wallah (1965)

Directors

James Ivory

Cast

Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell

The story

Loosely based on the family of the real-life actor-manager Geoffrey Kendal and his travelling "Shakespeareana Company"–which earned him the Indian sobriquet "Shakespearewallah"–the film follows the story of a group of nomadic British actors as they perform Shakespeare plays in towns in post-colonial India, overseen by Tony Buckingham (Geoffrey Kendal) and his wife Carla (Laura Liddell). On their travels their daughter Lizzie Buckingham (Felicity Kendal) falls in love with rich playboy Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), who is also romancing Manjula (Madhur Jaffrey), a very popular Bollywood film star.

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