The Last Lear (2007)

Directors

Rituparno Ghosh

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal

The story

The story revolves around Harish Mishra (Amitabh Bachchan), a retired Shakespearean theatre actor who spent precisely thirty years and nine months on stage and then suddenly quit, and his first and last act as a cinema artist. He is immensely passionate about Shakespeare, believes that nothing even comparable can ever be written, knows all his plays by heart, lives in those stories, condemns modern cinema, and considers theatre as a much higher artform for directors and actors to convey their message to an audience. It is Diwali, a time when box offices are flooded with new releases, and Shabnam (Preity Zinta) has to attend the premiere…

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