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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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Uniform Title:Mahānagara (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Janus Films, RDB Organization (Firm), Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992 (Screenwriter, composer (expression),), Chatterjee, Anil, 1929-1996 (Actor), Mukhopādhyāẏa, Mādhabī, 1943- (Actor), Banerjee, Haradhan (Actor), Chatterjee, Haren (Actor), Redwood, Vicky (Actor), Bhaduri, Jaya (Actor), Devi, Sefalika (Actor), Sarkar, Prasenjit (Actor), Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001 (director of photography.), Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935-2020 (Actor), Ganguly, Suranjan, 1958- (interviewee (expression)), Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975, Mitra, Premendra, Sengoopta, Chandak (author of added text.), Robinson, Andrew, 1957- (interviewer (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Bengali
Language Notes:In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
Published: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Series:Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 668.
Subjects:
Women employees > India > Kolkata > Drama.
Women > India > Kolkata > Social conditions > Drama.
Married women > Employment > India > Kolkata > Drama.
India > Social life and customs > Drama.
Nineteen fifties > Drama.
Kolkata (India) > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Indic.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
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