Photo: Satyajit Ray with actors Sanjeev Kumar and Saeed Jaffrey on the sets of ’Shatranj Ke Khilari’ (1977)

"Shatranj Ke Khilari" (’The Chess Players’) is a 1924 Hindi short-story written by Munshi Premchand. It was adapted for film by India’s famous film director Satyajit Ray in 1977