Het is het jaar 1856. Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is de koning van Awadh, een van de laatste onafhankelijke koninkrijken van India. De Britse kolonialisten, die dit rijke land willen controleren, hebben generaal Outram op een geheime missie gestuurd om de weg vrij te maken voor een annexatie. De druk neemt toe te midden van intriges en politieke manoeuvres, maar de Nawab verdoet zijn tijd met het najagen van plezier en religieuze praktijken. Het hof helpt ook niet: de hofedelen Mir en Mirza negeren de situatie van hun land en al hun plichten jegens hun families en brengen hun dagen door met het spelen van eindeloze schaakpartijen. De film is gebaseerd op het gelijknamige korte verhaal van Munshi Premchand.
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| Directing | Satyajit Ray | Director |
| Writing | Munshi Premchand | Short Story |
| Writing | Satyajit Ray | Screenplay |
| Production | Suresh Jindal | Producer |
| Writing | Munshi Premchand | Writer |
| Camera | Dilip Bannerji | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Purnendu Bose | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Bansi Chandragupta | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Saba Zaidi | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Art | Kabi Dasgupta | Background Designer |
| Production | Ana Maria De Souza | Administration |
| Camera | Sumantra Ghoshal | Still Photographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Shama Zaidi | Costume Design |
| Production | Trailokya Das | Production Assistant |
| Production | Bolai Addy | Production Assistant |
| Writing | Shama Zaidi | Dialogue |
| Writing | Javed Siddiqui | Dialogue |
| Sound | Narinder Singh | Sound |
| Crew | Birju Maharaj | Choreographer |
| Editing | Kashinath Bose | Assistant Editor |
| Camera | Sandip Ray | Still Photographer |
| Sound | Birju Maharaj | Songs |
| Directing | Santi Chatterjee | Assistant Director |
| Production | Anil Choudhury | Production Executive |
| Production | Uma Da Cunha | Publicist |
| Camera | Pablo Bartholomew | Still Photographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rabab Jaffri | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Art | Zehra Tyabji | Graphic Designer |
| Camera | Anil Ghosh | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Nemai Ghosh | Still Photographer |
| Directing | Sandip Ray | Assistant Director |
| Production | N.B. Sukhwani | Administration |
| Crew | Jagdish Shetty | Administrative Assistant |
| Directing | Javed Siddiqui | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Samir Majumdar | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Ramesh Sen | Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Ram Mohan | Animation |
| Art | Joseph St. Anne | Graphic Designer |
| Writing | Satyajit Ray | Dialogue |
| Production | Bhanu Ghosh | Production Manager |
| Art | Ashoke Bose | Assistant Art Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sitara Jaffri | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Editing | Dulal Dutta | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pradip Bag | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Haru Das | Wardrobe Master |
| Production | J.N. Srivastava | Location Manager |
| Sound | Reba Muhuri | Songs |
| Sound | Mangesh Desai | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Arun Chakravarty | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Dulal Das | Sound Assistant |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ananta Das | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Soumendu Roy | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Satyajit Ray | Original Music Composer |
