The big city Mahanagar
DVD - 2013
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Motion pictures India
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, NY] :
Criterion Collection
[2013]
- Language
- Bengali
English - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- DVD release of the 1963 motion picture.
From a stories Abataranika and Akinchan 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 = Kapurush (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; music, Satyajit Ray ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
- ISBN
- 9781604657654
- Disc 1. The big city
- Disc 2. The coward / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; R.D. Bansal presents ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.