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Shakespeare Wallah: Merchant Ivory's bittersweet tale of Bollywood and the Bard by Chris Wiegand

The Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupe The stage on screen: more films about theatre The actor Geoffrey Bragg was born in 1909 in the Lake District and later adopted the name of his birth town of Kendal but, at schools and theatres across India in the 1940s and 50s, he was recognised simply as the "Shakespeare Wa…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM on March 30, 2021

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