Shakespeare-Wallah
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12/1/1965Runtime
120 minsOverview
The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
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A tender, elegiac portrait of English actors staging Shakespeare in a rapidly modernizing India, mourning the slow eclipse of classical theater by the appetite for cinema and commerce. It's a meditation on cultural displacement and the fragile persistence of art in a world indifferent to its survival.
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