The Last Lear
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Cast & Crew
Jisshu Sengupta
Shefali Shetty
Arjun Rampal
Preity Zinta
Amitabh Bachchan
Shubho Shekhar Bhattacharjee
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Veteran thespian, Harish Mishra, is gravely ill. The stress of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story emerges. Siddharth wooed Harish from retirement. He wins the trust of the aged performer, who rages against the modern world from his quiet study. Sporting a silver mane, Bachchan trumpets the superiority of Shakespeare over anything cinema can create. And yet, he agrees to act in the film. As the outsider in the cast, Harish has disdain for movie fakery. His theater skills are so much grander. Standing on a hillside, he teaches Shabnam to project her voice clear across a valley to the next hill.
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Released in United States October 2007
Released in United States September 2007
Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) October 17-November 1, 2007.
Shown at Rome Film Festival (Extra - Other Visions) October 18-27, 2007.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Gala) September 6-15, 2007.
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) October 17-November 1, 2007.)
Released in United States 2007
Released in United States September 2007 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Gala) September 6-15, 2007.)
Released in United States October 2007 (Shown at Rome Film Festival (Extra - Other Visions) October 18-27, 2007.)
