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The Big City

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 eve...

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Corporate Authors: Janus Films, RDB Organization (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Bansal, R. D. (Film producer), Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992 (Screenwriter, Film director, composer (expression),), Chatterjee, Anil, 1928- (Actor), Mukherjee, Madhabi, 1943- (Actor), Banerjee, Haradhan (Actor), Chatterjee, Haren (Actor), Redwood, Vicky (Actor), Bhaduri, Jaya (Actor), Devi, Sefalika (Actor), Sarkar, Prasenjit (Actor), Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001 (director of photography.), Chandragupta, Bansi (Production designer), Dutta, Dulal (Editor of moving image work), Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935- (Actor), Ganguly, Suranjan, 1958- (interviewee (expression)), Garga, B. D. (Bhagwan Das), 1924- (Filmmaker), Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975, Mitra, Premendra, Sengoopta, Chandak (author of added text.), Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (interviewer (expression))
Format: Videos DVD
Language:Bengali
English
Published: [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Series:Criterion collection ; 668.
Subjects:
Women > India > Drama.
Women employees > India > Drama.
Married women > Employment > India > Drama.
Foreign films > India.
Kolkata (India) > Drama.
Feature films.
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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 when his car breaks down near her home.
Item Description:DVD release of the 1963 motion picture.
From a story by Narendranath Mitra.
Special features: Disc 1: 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: 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.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Format:DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Audience:MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
ISBN:9781604657654
1604657650

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