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...Barth succeeds with clarity, succinctness and natural ease in creating a modern tale out of the oldest forms of storytelling. It is about Scheherazade's famous plight as told by her younger sister Dunyazade, who sat at the foot of the bed for 1,001 nights while the Shah made love to Scheherazade and was held spellbound by her stories. It may be recalled that before the Shah met "Sherry," as she is known in the bedchamber, he had been habituated to deflowering a virgin each night and beheading her in the morning. It was a sure preventive against...
Directed by KRISHNA SHAH...
Screenplay by KRISHNA SHAH...
...like modern chess, was called chaturanga, or the army game. The pieces represented the four elements of the Indian army: chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry; they evolved through the centuries into rooks, bishops, knights and pawns. In its travels, the Hindi word rajah, for king, became shah in Persian, which led to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead, from which the term checkmate is derived...
Favored with dark good looks, an elegant wardrobe and an arsenal of jewelry, Princess Ashraf, 52-year-old twin sister of the Shah of Iran, has long traveled the world as a figure of enigmatic glamour. Sometimes there were troubles-as when French officials discovered her trying to take $2,260 in undeclared francs out of the country-but that only made her all the more a figure of mystery. Then, last spring, the respected Paris newspaper Le Monde alleged that a suitcase containing several kilos of heroin had been found among the princess's luggage at Geneva airport...