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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The sunset of colonialism in modern India colors a wry, wistful and poetic film by U.S. Director James Ivory, who delicately explores a love triangle among a young man (Shashi Kapoor), a native film star (Madhur Jaffrey), and an ingenue (Felicity Kendal) touring the provinces with an English Shakespeare troupe...
Despite this indulgent direction, the film has moments of brilliance and grace. The wide Indian countryside is mistily evoked without calling undue attention to itself. Shashi Kapoor gives ironic strength to the role of the rich young Indian who mocks Hamlet's indecision but cannot force himself to choose between women. Felicity Kendal manages to be pathetically believable as the ingenue of innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come...
Prem, a teacher at Mr. Khanna's Private College, finds settling down a most delicate matter. His family, he complains to a colleague, "have married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains...