| Description |
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 669 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 669.
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; Region 1; Dolby Digital mono; 1.33:1 aspect ratio. |
| Note |
Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghosal, Gitali Roy, Subrata Sen, Bankim Ghosh. |
| Credits |
Cinematography by Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta ; songs, Raja Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Tansen, Baiju Bawra, Joydeb, Nidhubabu. |
| Note |
Based on Nastanirh = The broken nest / by Rabindranath Tagore. |
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Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1964. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Special features: Interviews with the actors (Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee); Adapting Tagore (a new interview program, film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri discuss Satyajit Ray's controversial adaptation); Satyajit Ray on progress (archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray by film journalist Gideon Bachmann). Booklet features essay by critic Philip Kemp and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson. |
| Language |
In Bengali with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- India -- Drama.
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Married women -- India -- Drama.
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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Film adaptations.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
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Romance films.
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Film adaptations.
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Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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Feature films -- India.
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Foreign language films -- Bengali.
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| Added Author |
Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992, screenwriter, composer (expression), film director.
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Bansal, R. D., film producer.
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Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935-2020 actor.
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Mukhopādhyāẏa, Mādhabī, 1943- actor.
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Mukherjee, Sailen., actor.
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Ghosal, Shyamal, actor.
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Roy, Gitali, actor.
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Sena, Subrata, 1963- actor.
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Ghosh, Bankim, actor.
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Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001, director of photography.
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Chandragupta, Bansi, production designer.
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Dutta, Dulal, editor of moving image work.
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Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772?-1833, lyricist.
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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941, lyricist.
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Tansen, -1589, lyricist.
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Bawra, Baiju, 1542-1613, lyricist.
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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.
Nashṭanīṛa.
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Biśvāsa, Maināka, interviewee (expression)
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Chaudhuri, Supriya, interviewee (expression)
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Bachmann, Gideon, interviewee (expression)
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Kemp, Philip, writer of added text.
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Robinson, Andrew, 1957- interviewer (expression)
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RDB Organization (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm) Distributor.
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| Note |
Known in Bengali as: Cārulatā |
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Also known as: Lonely wife |
| ISBN |
9781604657630 |
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1604657634 |
| Standard No. |
715515109215 |
| Music No. |
CC2300D The Criterion Collection |
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