Mahanagar : 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...
| Uniform Title: | Mahānagara (Motion picture) |
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Language Notes: | In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English. |
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[New York] :
Criterion Collection,
[2013]
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| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
668. |
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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, now married, when his car breaks down near her home. |
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| Item Description: | Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. From a story by Narendranath Mitra. Special features: New 2K digital film restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; 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: Kāpurusha = 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. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.) |
| Format: | Blu-ray; region A; widescreen; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta. |