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Winner of "Best Director" and "Best Supporting Actor" at the 1979 Filmfare Awards.
In the kingdom of Awadh, rich landowners Meer (Saeed Jaffrey) and Mirza (Sanjeev Kumar) pour every ounce of passion into a never-ending game of chess. At the same time, an ambitious British General (Sir Richard Attenborough) plots his own moves against Awadh's King (Amjad Khan) and Prime Minister (Victor Banerjee) in the hope of taking the region for his Queen. Heedless of their political and family responsibilities, Mirza and Meer keep playing. But as British soldiers march on their homeland, an innocent game escalates into deadly confrontation and catastrophic loss. Rich, poor, winner or loser, everyone is revealed to be history's pawn.
GENRES
- Drama / Costume Drama
- International / Asian / Indian
- Drama / Political
- Epic / Historical
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Drama / Gaming/Gambling / Chess
Cast & Crew
- Bhudo Advani
- Tom Alter - Capt. Weston (Outram's aide de camp)
- Shabana Azmi - Khurshid, Mirza's wife
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Victor Bannerjee - Prime Minister
- David Abraham Cheulkar - Munshi
- Saeed Jaffrey - Mir Roshan Ali
- Farida Jalal - Nafisa, Mir's wife
- Barry John
- Sanjeev Kumar - Mirza Sajjad Ali
- Leela Mishra
- Kamu Mukherjee
- Uttamram Nagar
- Samarth Narain
- Farooq Shaikh - Aqueel
- Veena - Queen Mother
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