Shakespeare Wallah / Merchant Ivory Productions ; produced by Ismail Merchant ; story & screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; directed by James Ivory.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Merchant Ivory collection.
Corporate Authors:	Merchant Ivory Productions Criterion Collection (Firm) Home Vision Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors:	Merchant, Ismail Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013 Ivory, James Kapoor, Shashi Kendal, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey, 1909- Liddell, Laura, 1909-1992 Jaffrey, Madhur, 1933- Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001 Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992
Language:	English
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection : Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, [2004], ©2004.
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Merchant Ivory collection.
Subjects:	Actors > Great Britain > Drama. Theater > India > Drama. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947 > Drama. Feature films. Foreign films > India.
Genre:	Drama. Feature films. Foreign films
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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