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...familiarity of a quickie weekend at Esalen. Hermann Hesse's novel has been adapted with stuporous devotion by Conrad Rooks, who in 1967 unleashed Chappaqua, a shambling phantasmagoria of the hallucinatory world of alcoholism and drug addiction. His skills have become no sharper in the intervening years. Siddhartha (Shashi Kapoor), as any campus sophomore would know, spends the better part of his lifetime beating the bushes in search of spiritual insight and fulfillment. It is a hard job achieving nirvana, and seems to require a great deal of sitting by babbling brooks and talking in hushed tones...
This shocks even her black-sheep Uncle Bob (Trevor Howard), especially after Lover Amaz (Shashi Kapoor) fits Hayley out with contact lenses and a hairdo piled up like frozen custard. But she has seen enough movies to know that Amaz Can Never Make Her Happy. So it's back to England and some bank clerk of a husband-with a fling in Hong Kong first on the proceeds from selling Auntie's jewelry...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. The real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. But the real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The sunset of colonialism in India colors a wry, wistful and poetic comedy by U.S. Director James Ivory, who delicately explores a love triangle composed of a young man (Shashi Kapoor), a native film star (Madhur Jaffrey), and an ingenue (Felicity Kendal), who are touring the provinces with an English Shakespeare troupe...