The second screening of SACF’s Merchant Ivory Project was held at NFT 3, BFI Southbank on Wednesday 15 May 2024.
The Project Introduction was given was SACF Volunteer, Sushmita Mitra. The film screened was ‘Shakespeare Wallah’ (1965). It was introduced by film historian Adrian Garvey.
‘Shakespeare Wallah’
USA-India (1965). Director: Jame Ivory with Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendall, Madhur Jaffrey.
(120 mins) Digital. PG.
James Ivory’s drama written by regular collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is loosely based on the real-life adventures of a traveling theatre company in towns across India in the 1950s, at a time when the popularity of Bollywood cinema was on the rise.
The screening was presented by the South Asian Cinema Foundation as part of their Merchant Ivory Indo-British Film Heritage Project funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund.
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