Shakespeare Wallah
By: Cohen Media presents ; director, James Ivory ; story and script, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory ; producer, Ismail Merchant
Contributors: Kendal, Felicity, actor; Kapoor, Shashi, actor; Jaffrey, Madhur, 1933- actor; Kendal, Geoffrey, 1909- actor; Cohen Media Group
Series: Cohen film collection
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Drama; Actors; Theater; History
Description: The real-life adventures of a traveling theater group in India during the final days of English colonial rule. They try to uphold British tradition by staging Shakespearean plays but can't compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.

Wide screen.

Special features: Conversation with the filmmakers, featuring Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Shashi Kapoor and Felicity Kendal; original trailer; 2017 re-release trailer.

Director of photography, Subrata Mitra ; music, Satyajit Ray ; editor, Amit Bose.

Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor, Madhur Jaffrey, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Utpal Dutt, Jim Tytler, Praveen Paul.

Not rated.

DVD, wide screen; dual mono.

English or Hindi dialogue; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); closed-captioned.