
Satyajit Ray’s first Hindi feature is set in 1856 when Nawab Wajid Ali Shah rules Awadh, one of India’s last kingdoms. The British, via General Outram, plot annexation amid court intrigue. The Nawab seeks pleasure and rites while nobles Mir and Mirza ignore duties, absorbed in endless chess. It adapts Munshi Premchand’s short story of the same name.
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Shabana Azmi
Khurshid

Saeed Jaffrey
Mir Roshan Ali

Victor Banerjee
Prime Minister

Amitabh Bachchan
Narrator (voice)

Farida Jalal
Nafisa

Farooq Shaikh
Aqueel

Barry John

Tom Alter
Capt. Weston

Sanjeev Kumar
Mirza Sajjad Ali

Satyajit Ray

Kamu Mukherjee

Amjad Khan
Wajid Ali Shah

David Abraham Cheulkar
Munshi

Leela Mishra
Hirya

Saswati Sen
Dancer (uncredited)

Veena
Queen Mother

Bhudo Advani
Abbajani

Samarth Narain
Kallu

Uttamram Nagar

Khairatilal Lahori

Pradip Shankar

Ashfaq Mirza

Amrit Bhushan Gujral

Ramesh Khosla

Shaik Farid

Madan Sudan
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