Fresh
Very delicate and lovely.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Overview
The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
Director and cast
- James Ivory Director
- Shashi Kapoor as Sanju
- Felicity Kendal as Lizzie Buckingham
- Geoffrey Kendal as Mr. Tony Buckingham
- Laura Liddell as Mrs. Carla Buckingham
- Madhur Jaffrey as Manjula
- Utpal Dutt as Maharaja
- Praveen Paul as Didi
- Prayag Raj as Sharmaji
- Pinchoo Kapoor as Guptaji
- Jim D. Tytler as Bobby
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
89%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Ivory is particularly acute in catching the peculiar matrix of moods and emotions that hold the troupe together and which keep the British and the Indians from ever really understanding each other.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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