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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.
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Oct 3, 1977 · A comedy drama about two noblemen who ignore the British invasion of India while playing chess. The film explores the contrast between the political and personal struggles of the characters, and the cultural clash between Indian and British cultures.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- Satyajit Ray
- 1977-10-03
Apr 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 wealthy province in ...
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