The Chess Players (1977)
October 2, 1977Release Date
The Chess Players (1977)
October 2, 1977Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Sanjeev Kumar
Mirza Sajjad Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Mir Roshan Ali
Amjad Khan
Wajid Ali Shah
Shabana Azmi
Khurshid, Mirza's wife
Farida Jalal
Nafisa, Mir's wife
Veena
Queen Mother
David Abraham Cheulkar
Munshi
Victor Banerjee
Prime Minister
Farooq Shaikh
Aqueel
Tom Alter
Capt. Weston (Outram's aide de camp)
Leela Mishra
Hirya, Khurshid's maid
Satyajit Ray
Director
Munshi Premchand
Writer
Richard Attenborough
General Outram
Samarth Narain
Kallu
Shama Zaidi
Writer
Bhudo Advani
Abbajani
Javed Siddiqui
Writer
Suresh Jindal
Producer
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Saswati Sen
Dancer (uncredited)
Amitabh Bachchan
Narrator (voice)
Uma Da Cunha
Publicist
Bansi Chandragupta
Art Direction
Sandip Ray
Still Photographer / Assistant Director
Soumendu Roy
Director of Photography
Ashoke Bose
Assistant Art Director
Ananta Das
Makeup Artist
Mangesh Desai
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Anil Choudhury
Production Executive
Santi Chatterjee
Assistant Director
Bhanu Ghosh
Production Manager
Ramesh Sen
Assistant Director
Birju Maharaj
Choreographer / Songs
Purnendu Bose
Assistant Camera
Anil Ghosh
Assistant Camera
Dilip Bannerji
Assistant Camera
Rabab Jaffri
Assistant Costume Designer
Sitara Jaffri
Assistant Costume Designer
Saba Zaidi
Assistant Costume Designer
Narinder Singh
Sound
Arun Chakravarty
Sound Assistant
Dulal Das
Sound Assistant
Kashinath Bose
Assistant Editor
Pradip Bag
Assistant Makeup Artist
Haru Das
Wardrobe Master
Kabi Dasgupta
Background Designer
J.N. Srivastava
Location Manager
Bolai Addy
Production Assistant
Trailokya Das
Production Assistant
Ram Mohan
Animation
Zehra Tyabji
Graphic Designer
Joseph St. Anne
Graphic Designer
N.B. Sukhwani
Administration
Ana Maria De Souza
Administration
Jagdish Shetty
Administrative Assistant
Nemai Ghosh
Still Photographer
Sumantra Ghoshal
Still Photographer
Pablo Bartholomew
Still Photographer
Reba Muhuri
Songs
Samir Majumdar
Sound Recordist
Shaik Farid
Ramesh Khosla
Amrit Bhushan Gujral
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 2, 1977
Original Nameशतरंज के खिलाड़ी
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 9m
Genres
Wiki.
Shatranj Ke Khilari, also subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
Amjad Khan plays the role of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough enacts the role of General James Outram. The main cast includes actors Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey as the chess players. It also has Shabana Azmi, Farooque Shaikh, Farida Jalal, David Abraham, and Tom Alter. It has Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator.
It was India's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but did not receive a nomination.This is the only full-length Hindi feature film of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. He later made a short Hindi film for TV named Sadgati, another adaptation of Munshi Premchand's short story.