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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| Language: | Bengali |
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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.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 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. |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
[2013]
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| ISBN: | 9781604657654 1604657650 |
Table of 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.