Starring Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor
with Madhur Jaffrey.

This delightful film set in India twenty years ago after Independence, follows the adventures of a company of actors led by an Englishman, who tour the country performing Shakespeare.
But as the old Imperial culture declines, the Buckinghams, as the troupe is called, find it increasingly hard to get bookings.

When the film was first shown at the London Film Festival in 1965, it charmed audiences with its gentle nostalgia, and shifts between comedy and sadness.
Geoffrey Kendal, who plays Felicity Kendal's father in the film, is, in fact, her real-life father.