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Shakespeare Wallah
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Starring	Shashi Kapoor Jennifer Kendal Felicity Kendal Madhur Jaffrey Geoffrey Kendal Partap Sharma
Music by	Satyajit Ray
Release date(s)	1965
Language	English
IMDb profile

Shakespeare Wallah (1965) was Merchant Ivory Productions' first important film. The story and screenplay are by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. This film also marked the first important collaboration with Jhabvala.

Plot synopsis

Loosely based on the real-life Kendal family, this film follows the story of nomadic British actors as they perform in towns in post-colonial India performing plays by Shakespeare. In this story, Tony Buckingham (Geoffrey Kendal) and his wife Carla (Laura Lidell) oversee the troupe. Their daughter, Lizzie Buckingham (Felicity Kendal), falls in love with Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), who is also romancing Manjula (Madhur Jaffrey) a Bollywood film star.

Trivia

Rather than Felicity, Shashi Kapoor fell in love with her elder sister Jennifer Kendal in real life. Their marriage would provide an important contribution to the Indian film industry until Kendal's death in 1984.

External links

Merchant Ivory overview

Films by Merchant Ivory Productions

The Householder • Shakespeare Wallah • The Guru • Bombay Talkie • Savages • The Wild Party • Autobiography of a Princess • Roseland • Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures • The Five Forty-Eight • The Europeans • Jane Austen in Manhattan • Quartet • Courtesans of Bombay • Heat and Dust • The Bostonians • A Room with a View • Maurice • The Deceivers • Slaves of New York • Mr. & Mrs. Bridge • The Perfect Murder • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe • Street Musicians of Bombay • Howards End • The Remains of the Day • In Custody • Feast of July • Jefferson in Paris • The Proprietor • Surviving Picasso • Side Streets • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries • Cotton Mary • The Golden Bowl • The Mystic Masseur • Le Divorce • Heights • The White Countess • The City of Your Final Destination

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