{"id":95915,"date":"2024-04-21T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95915"},"modified":"2024-04-21T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:01:07","slug":"shakespeare-wallah-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95915","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Wallah (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What do these people know about our theater &#8212; Shakespeare and all that?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster-202x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster-182x270.png 182w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Poster.png 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA young British actress (Felicity Kendal) traveling across India in a Shakespearean troupe with her father (Geoffrey Kendal) and mother (Laura Liddell) falls for a playboyish man (Shashi Kapoor) with a possessive Bollywood mistress (Madhur Jaffrey).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actors and Actresses<\/li>\n<li>Cross-Cultural Romance<\/li>\n<li>Indian Films<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Merchant and Ivory Films<\/li>\n<li>Shakespeare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nJames Ivory and Ismail Merchant&#8217;s second feature-length film together after <em>The Householder<\/em> (1963) [non-<em>GFTFF<\/em>] was this adaptation of journals (later published as a memoir) by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Kendal\">Geoffrey Kendal<\/a>, who starred alongside his wife, daughters, and son-in-law (Kapoor) as a real-life version of himself. The storyline takes place during an intriguing time in Indian history, when Geoffrey&#8217;s troupe was at the tale end of (according to Wikipedia) &#8220;perform[ing] Shakespeare before royalty one day, and in rural villages the next,&#8221; with &#8220;many of their audiences&#8230; schoolchildren.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing-503x270.png 503w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bowing.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the film, we see Geoffrey struggling to secure work for his company: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-1024x550.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans-503x270.png 503w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Plans.png 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; given that Indian culture is shifting towards more interest in sports and Bollywood features:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-1024x542.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-768x407.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood-510x270.png 510w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Bollywood.png 1292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which in some ways feels entirely appropriate given the necessary trajectory of post-colonialist initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>The emotional crux of the narrative lies in the tentative romance between Felicity and Kapoor &#8212; which is hard to take at first given his duplicity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-1024x561.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance-493x270.png 493w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Romance.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Jaffrey is arrogant and entitled enough herself that we can see Kapoor would be much better off with Felicity &#8212; but is romance with Kapoor what&#8217;s best for her? The cinematography by Subrata Mitra (Satyajit Ray&#8217;s DP) is effectively atmospheric throughout, and Ray&#8217;s score &#8212; composed in just 10 days &#8212; is perfectly suited for the story. While it&#8217;s not must-see viewing, this film is well worth a look, and will be of special interest to Merchant-and-Ivory fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Felicity Kendal as Lizzie<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor-508x270.png 508w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Kendal-Kapoor.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Madhur Jaffrey as Manjula<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea-503x270.png 503w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Tea.png 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell as Tony and Carla Buckingham<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-1024x546.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-1024x546.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple-506x270.png 506w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Older-Couple.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Subrata Mitra&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking-502x270.png 502w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shakespeare-Wallah-Walking.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Satyajit Ray&#8217;s score\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended for one-time viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059709\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1966\/03\/23\/archives\/screen-shakespeare-wallah-openslove-storys-backdrop-is-emerging.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/shakespeare-wallah\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/89781\/shakespeare-wallah#articles-reviews?articleId=413006\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What do these people know about our theater &#8212; Shakespeare and all that?&#8221; Synopsis: A young British actress (Felicity Kendal) traveling across India in a Shakespearean troupe with her father (Geoffrey Kendal) and mother (Laura Liddell) falls for a playboyish man (Shashi Kapoor) with a possessive Bollywood mistress (Madhur Jaffrey). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Actors and Actresses Cross-Cultural Romance Indian Films Love Triangle Merchant and Ivory Films Shakespeare Review: James Ivory and Ismail Merchant&#8217;s second feature-length film together after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95915\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95915"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95936,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95915\/revisions\/95936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}