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The Chess Players is a indian film of genre Drama directed by Satyajit Ray released in USA on 17 may 1978 with Shabana Azmi
The Chess Players (1977)
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Add to a movie listShatranj Ke Khiladi (Hindi: शतरंज के खिलाड़ी; The Chess Players) is a 1977 Indian film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Amjad Khan plays the role of Wajid Ali Shah, King of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough plays the role of General James Outram. The film also features the actors Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, David Abraham and Tom Alter.
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The film shows in parallel the historical drama of the Indian kingdom Awadh (whose capital is Lucknow) and its Muslim Nawab Wajid Ali Shah who is overthrown by the British, alongside the story of two shatranj (chess) obsessed noblemen.Actors
Shabana Azmi
(Khurshid)
Farida Jalal
(Nafisa)
Richard Attenborough
(General Outram)
Amitabh Bachchan
(Narrator (voice))
Sanjeev Kumar
(Mirza Sajjad Ali)
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