I have often wondered about the very curdled natures of our opinions so much so that the perch of imagination simply becomes a bystanding abstraction and real thoughts of genuine merit slip between the fingers. That is a human tendency, to beat arou...
CAST : FELICITY KENDAL, SHASHI KAPOOR, GEOFFREY KENDAL, LAURA LIDDELL, MADHUR JAFFERY, PARTAP SHARMA etc.
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Who said that the twain between the East and the West shall never meet? I have always maintained that the Merchant Ivory partnership is a global testimonial of creative entwining for the ages. I believe if not for countless tales set in post independent Commonwealth of India, a land brimming with voices and turning the tides of one dimensional outlooks with its sweeping diversity, the American filmmaker James Ivory would have never got a foothold over his own unique style of naturalistic storytelling that straddled worlds. With Indian producer and co creator Ismail Merchant, the love affair with India transmuted to a canonical, mythic entity in popular culture ( something I have been delighted to explore when writing about their later masterpiece THE REMAINS OF THE DAY exactly a month back) with works as THE HOUSEHOLDER, BOMBAY TALKIE, HEAT AND DUST, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS, IN CUSTODY et al.
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SHAKESPEAREWALLAH (1965) always fascinated me as it honoured the lifelong credo of the Kendals, an English family of traveling theatre masters excelling in the reenactments of Shakespeare’s plays all over the subcontinent, gaining a legendary status as an unit known for regaling audiences for years on end. They made India their home and this identity morphed into one of absolute national distinction, even earning them the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award (awarded by the deemed national institute of theatre, music and dance)
