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Title Mahanagar The big city / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; produced by R. D. Bansal ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.

Publication Info. [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD  DVD FOREIGN-BEN-B    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Series Criterion collection ; 668
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 668.
System Details DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
Cast Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar.
Credits Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
Note DVD release of the 1963 motion picture.
From a story by Narendranath Mitra.
Audience MPAA rating: 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.
The Coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover when his car breaks down near her home.
Note 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.
Contents 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.
Language In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
Subject Women -- India -- Drama.
Women employees -- India -- Drama.
Married women -- Employment -- India -- Drama.
Foreign films -- India.
Kolkata (India) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Motion pictures.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Added Author Bansal, R. D., film producer.
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992, screenwriter, composer (expression), film director.
Chatterjee, Anil, 1929-1996 actor.
Mukhopādhyāẏa, Mādhabī, 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, 1935-2020 actor.
Ganguly, Suranjan, 1958- interviewee (expression)
Garga, B. D. (Bhagwan Das), 1924-2011 filmmaker.
Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975. Mahanagar.
Mitra, Premendra. Tale of a coward.
Sengoopta, Chandak, author of added text.
Robinson, Andrew, 1957- interviewer (expression)
Janus Films.
RDB Organization (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Big city
Note Container title: Satyajit Ray's The big city
Added Title Coward.
ISBN 9781604657654
1604657650
Standard No. 715515109413
Music No. CC2302D The Criterion Collection
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