DVD
The big city = Mahanagar
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special ed.
Languages
In Bengali, with English subtitles.
Performers
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
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.
Notes
Based on the original stories "Abataranika" and "Akinchan" by Narendranath Mitra.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: interview with actor Makhabi Mukherjee ; Satyajit Ray and the modern woman, an interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly ; Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga ; The coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray.