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9789352771028 60ba38df24f83a61f27eaaa5 My Adventures with Satyajit Ray: The Making of Shatranj Ke Khilari https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60bdf36f5f5eaa2d506a67fd/9789352771028.jpg For those who know their Indian cinema Shatranj Ke Khilari is film-maker Satyajit Ray's only feature film in Hindi/Urdu and also his most expensive film employing lavish stage design and stars of both Mumbai and Western cinema. A period piece set in nineteenth-century Lucknow capital of the state of Oudh the film revolves around the court of the flamboyant artist-king Wajid Ali Shah against the backdrop of the East India Company's avaricious annexation of Oudh in 1856.

Jindal Ray's young and artistically committed producer of Shatranj Ke Khilari looks back on the gripping story of how Ray came to direct the film despite his unequivocal declaration that he would never write and direct a film that was not in Bengali. Quoting extensively from Ray's fascinating unpublished letters to Jindal it evokes the driving passion original historical research and trademark devotion to detail that Ray brought to every aspect of the production.
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  • ISBN: 9789352771028
  • Author: Jindal Suresh
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 224
  • Format: Paperback
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For those who know their Indian cinema Shatranj Ke Khilari is film-maker Satyajit Ray's only feature film in Hindi/Urdu and also his most expensive film employing lavish stage design and stars of both Mumbai and Western cinema. A period piece set in nineteenth-century Lucknow capital of the state of Oudh the film revolves around the court of the flamboyant artist-king Wajid Ali Shah against the backdrop of the East India Company's avaricious annexation of Oudh in 1856.

Jindal Ray's young and artistically committed producer of Shatranj Ke Khilari looks back on the gripping story of how Ray came to direct the film despite his unequivocal declaration that he would never write and direct a film that was not in Bengali. Quoting extensively from Ray's fascinating unpublished letters to Jindal it evokes the driving passion original historical research and trademark devotion to detail that Ray brought to every aspect of the production.

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