Mahanagar [videorecording] = The big city / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; produced by R. D. Bansal ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.
Format:
[videorecording] =
Edition:
Blu-ray special ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.)
Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles. Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar. Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. From a story by Narendranath Mitra. Special features: New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Madhabi Mukherjee (new interview with the actor); Satyajit Ray and the modern woman (interview with Satyajit Ray scholar and author Suranjan Ganguly); B.D. Garga's Satyajit Ray (1974 documentary featuring narration by Satyajit Ray and on-set footage from the making of The big city). Disc 2: Kāpurusha = The coward (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward. Booklet features an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson.
Summary:
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman. The coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover, now married, when his car breaks down near her home.
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