This drama about colonialism and indigenous culture is set in 1856 at the court of Wajid Ali Shah in Lucknow, the capital of Oudh. Features two parallel narratives. The first shows the interminable games of chess played by two hookah-smoking zamindars. The other dramatises the conflict between Wajid...
Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
Films Sans Frontières,
Kino International Corporation |
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| Other Authors: |
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992,
Zaidi, Shama,
Siddique, Javed,
Bachchan, Amitabh, 1942-,
Kumar, Sanjeev, 1938-1985,
Jaffrey, Saeed, 1929-2015,
Azmi, Shabana, 1950-,
Khan, Amjad, 1940-1992,
Attenborough, Richard,
Premacanda, 1881-1936 |
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| Format: | Video
DVD
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| Language: | Urdu |
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| Language Notes: | In Urdu with optional subtitles in English. |
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| Published: |
N[ew] Y[ork], NY :
Kino on Video,
[2006]
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