13 JULY 2013 | FILM SCREENING | THE SATURDAY EVENING SHOW IN COLLABORATION WITH NAZARIYA

The Last Lear is a 2007 Indian drama film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. An aging actor is persuaded by a young ambitious director to take up acting again. The story revolves around Harish Mishra a retired Shakespearean theatre actor who spent precisely thirty years and nine months on stage and then suddenly quit. He is immensely passionate about Shakespeare, believes that nothing even comparable can ever be written, knows all his plays by heart, lives in those stories, and actor is unwilling to adjust to the new world of cinema.

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