The Chess Players | शतरंज के खिलाड़ी
The Chess Playersशतरंज के खिलाड़ी
Overview
It is the year 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the king of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British colonialists, intent on controlling this rich land, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either—Court nobles Mir and Mirza, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless games of chess. The film is based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
Cast
Sanjeev Kumar
Saeed Jaffrey
Amjad Khan
Shabana Azmi
Farida Jalal
Veena
David Abraham Cheulkar
Victor Banerjee
Farooq Shaikh
Tom Alter
Leela Mishra
Barry John
Richard Attenborough
Samarth Narain
Bhudo Advani
Kamu Mukherjee
Uttamram Nagar
Khairatilal Lahori
Pradip Shankar
Ashfaq Mirza
Amrit Bhushan Gujral
Ramesh Khosla
Shaik Farid
Madan Sudan
Saswati Sen
Amitabh Bachchan
Crew
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
Suresh Jindal
Purnendu Bose
Anil Ghosh
Dilip Bannerji
Bansi Chandragupta
Ashoke Bose
Shama Zaidi
Rabab Jaffri
Sitara Jaffri
Saba Zaidi
Narinder Singh
Arun Chakravarty
Dulal Das
Dulal Dutta
Kashinath Bose
Ananta Das
Pradip Bag
Haru Das
Kabi Dasgupta
Ramesh Sen
Santi Chatterjee
Sandip Ray
Javed Siddiqui
Anil Choudhury
Bhanu Ghosh
J.N. Srivastava
Bolai Addy
Trailokya Das
Ram Mohan
Zehra Tyabji
Joseph St. Anne
Uma Da Cunha
N.B. Sukhwani
Ana Maria De Souza
Jagdish Shetty
Nemai Ghosh
Sandip Ray
Sumantra Ghoshal
Pablo Bartholomew
Reba Muhuri
Birju Maharaj
Birju Maharaj
Mangesh Desai
Samir Majumdar
Satyajit Ray
Shama Zaidi
Javed Siddiqui
Soumendu Roy
Satyajit Ray
Munshi Premchand