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Mahanagar (The Big City)
Thu, Dec 16 | 7:30pm | TMT
In a struggling Calcutta household in the 1950s, a housewife (Madhabi Mukherjee) takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman to help make ends meet, only to find that her newfound success has unexpected repercus- sions throughout her family—especially in her marriage. Satyajit Ray’s sensitively filmed and optimistic story of female empowerment was India’s submission for the 1963 Foreign Language Oscar and the Best Director winner at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.
DIRECTOR: Satyajit Ray.
CAST: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee.
1963. 136 min. India. B&W. Bengali. 35mm.
Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant- Ivory Foundation, the Film Foundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Charulata (The Lonely Wife)
Fri, Dec 17 | 7:30pm | TMT
Satyajit Ray based this exquisite chamber dra- ma, his favorite of his own films, on Nastanirh (The Broken Nest) by Rabindranath Tagore, whose writings were a frequent source of inspiration for the director (see Teen Kanya ). Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) is married to loving but distant Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), who spends his time and family money on his own newspaper, but when his charming cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee) moves in with them, Charulata finds herself inspired but increasingly dissatisfied with her life.
DIRECTOR: Satyajit Ray.
CAST: Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Syamal Ghosal. 1964. 119 min. India. B&W. Bengali. 35mm. Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, the Merchant- Ivory Foundation, the Film Foundation, and the Packard Humanities Institute. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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