In 1965, the Merchant Ivory Productions company released their second film, "Shakespeare Wallah," which followed the Buckinghams, a fictional family troupe of Shakespearean actors who traveled through ...

A lark, a fling, a protean evocation of life between cultures, 1965’s Shakespeare Wallah, the second Merchant Ivory production, remains a breezy and beguiling study, comedy, romance, elegy. There are ...

Manjula graces a friend’s Facebook page, chin in hand, eyes in kohl, “bored but fantastic,” as my friend says of the glamorous Sixties screen villain. Last week I met Madhur Jaffrey, the Indian ...

Before A Room With a View, the Merchant and Ivory filmmaking team covered the clash of cultures in Shakespeare Wallah (1965), the second feature by Ismail and James, the producer from Bombay and the ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

Shakespeare Wallah is a wry, wistful look at what is left of the English in India. It has been nearly 20 years since the British hauled down the Union Jack and went back to their tight little island.

Sensitively acted story of a British theatrical troupe in modern India. Shashi Kapoor. Lizzie: Felicity Kendal. Buckingham: Geoffrey Kendal. Mrs. Buckingham: Laura ...