Word: madhur
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The sunset of colonialism in modern India colors a wry, wistful and poetic film by U.S. Director James Ivory, who delicately explores a love triangle among a young man (Shashi Kapoor), a native film star (Madhur Jaffrey), and an ingenue (Felicity Kendal) touring the provinces with an English Shakespeare troupe...
...calling undue attention to itself. Shashi Kapoor gives ironic strength to the role of the rich young Indian who mocks Hamlet's indecision but cannot force himself to choose between women. Felicity Kendal manages to be pathetically believable as the ingenue of innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come to life, the embodiment of an India that continues to attract the Western visitor without giving any of itself away...