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Charulata

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

DVD special ed.

Languages

In Bengali, with English subtitles.

Performers

Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the original novella The broken nest by Rabindranath Tagore.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.

Special features: New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee ; Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri ; archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann.

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