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The Chess Players. (film) Shatranj Ke Khilari, also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand 's short story of the same name . Amjad Khan plays the role of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and Richard ...
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Oct 3, 1977 · The Chess Players: Directed by Satyajit Ray. With Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal. In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- Satyajit Ray
- 1977-10-03
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In 1856, two obsessive chess players fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province. Director Satyajit Ray Producer Suresh Jindal Screenwriter Satyajit Ray Genre Comedy, Drama ...
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Apr 7, 2006 · April 7, 2006. Satyajit Ray’s gently satiric parable The Chess Players reminds us that, in the days before America’s machinations in Iraq, we had the British East India Company running roughshod in much same way in India. Ray opens his movie with a documentary-style recap of the Company’s mid-19th century wheeling-dealing in Oudh, a ...
