Obediently Yours, Orson Welles

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Ticket Price:	₹ 450
Genre:	Drama
Duration:	150 mins + intermission
Age:	16 years and above
Playwright:	Richard France
Director:	Jill Navarre
Cast:	R. Michael Oliver, Kewal Karthik, Norma Jean Belenky

May 7th, 1985, the day after Welles’ 70th and last birthday. The setting is a dingy recording studio in Hollywood. A shell of his former self, Welles is hoping that Steven Spielberg will restore his long-faded career by under-writing the final edit of his unfinished masterpiece, “Don Quixote.” (“Il mio bambino,” as Welles called it.) While waiting for his assistant to arrive with the money, Welles does voice-overs and reminisces about his illustrious past. His unbelievable radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds". His early triumph with Citizen Kane. His marriage to Rita Hayworth. Finally, he learns that Spielberg has declined to help his “idol,” thus ending any chance of a come-back. Lending his once-incomparable voice to other peoples’ products, in surroundings like these, could be his only future. But at the end, with his customary swagger, he walks unbeaten and unbowed into the future, helped by a little bit of magic and two dollops of hope.