Charulata /
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, C...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Language Notes: | Bengali dialogue; English subtitles. |
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[United States] :
Criterion Collection,
[2013]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray special ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
669. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Based on Nastanirh = The broken nest / by Rabindranath Tagore. Special features: New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee; Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri; archival audio interview. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages) |
| Format: | Blu-ray Disc; region A; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; monoaural; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production 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. |
| ISBN: | 9781604657623 1604657626 |