The Chess Players (1977)
Overview
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | hi |
| Popularity | 2.3302 |
Directed By
Satyajit Ray
Crew
Satyajit Ray
Munshi Premchand
Satyajit Ray
Suresh Jindal
Munshi Premchand
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
TOP CAST
Sanjeev Kumar
Mirza Sajjad Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Mir Roshan Ali
Amjad Khan
Wajid Ali Shah
Shabana Azmi
Khurshid
Farida Jalal
Nafisa
Veena
Queen Mother
David Abraham Cheulkar
Munshi
Victor Banerjee
Prime Minister
Farooq Shaikh
Aqueel
Tom Alter
Capt. Weston
Leela Mishra
Hirya
Richard Attenborough
General Outram
Samarth Narain
Kallu
Bhudo Advani
Abbajani
Saswati Sen
Dancer (uncredited)
Amitabh Bachchan
Narrator (voice)