The Satyajit Ray Collection - Vol. 1 3-DVD Set ( The Big City / The Lonely Wife / The Hero ) ( Mahanagar / Charulata / Nayak )

The Satyajit Ray Collection - Vol. 1 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Big City / The Lonely Wife / The Hero
Alternate Title: Mahanagar / Charulata / Nayak
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Bengali ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
351 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1963 - 196 and produced in:
India ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Satyajit Ray

Written By:
Narendranath Mitra
Satyajit Ray
Rabindranath Tagore

Actors:
Anil Chatterjee ..... Subrata Mazumdar
Madhabi Mukherjee ..... Arati Mazumder
Jaya Bhaduri ..... Bani
Haren Chatterjee ..... Priyogopal (Subrata's father)
Sefalika Devi ..... Sarojini (Subrata's Mother)
Prasenjit Sarkar ..... Pintu
Haradhan Bannerjee ..... Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood ..... Edith
Soumitra Chatterjee ..... Amal
Madhabi Mukherjee ..... Charulata
Shailen Mukherjee ..... Bhupati Dutta
Shyamal Ghoshal ..... Umapada
Gitali Roy ..... Manda
Bholanath Koyal ..... Braja
Suku Mukherjee ..... Nishikanta
Dilip Bose ..... Shashanka
Joydeb ..... Nilotpal Dey
Bankim Ghosh ..... Jagannath
Subrata Sensharma ..... Motilal
Uttam Kumar ..... Arindam Mukherjee
Sharmila Tagore ..... Aditi
Bireswar Sen ..... Mukunda Lahiri
Somen Bose ..... Sankar
Nirmal Ghosh ..... Jyoti
Premangshu Bose ..... Biresh
Sumita Sanyal ..... Promila Chatterjee
Ranjit Sen ..... Haren Bose
Bharati Devi ..... Manorama (Mr. Bose's wife)
Lali Chowdhury ..... Bulbul (Mr. Bose's daughter)
Kamu Mukherjee ..... Pritish Sarkar
Susmita Mukherjee ..... Molly (Mr. Sarkar's wife)
Subrata Sensharma ..... Ajoy
Jamuna Sinha ..... Sefalika (Ajoy's wife)
Hiralal ..... Kamal Misra

Synopsis:

Mahanagar (Aka: The Big City) (1963): Set in the mid '50s, Ray's often humorous story of
conflicting social values in India's lower-middle class stars Madhabi Mukherjee as a housewife whose growing independence alarms her traditionalist India 1963 family.

Charulata (Aka: The Lonely Wife) (1964): Neglected by her ambitious journalist husband, the
lonely Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) befriends his cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee), a sensitive aspiring
writer, and almost inevitably their feelings for each other begin to deepen. Adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore, Ray considered this sesnitively realised drama one of his finest achievements.

Nayak (Aka: The Hero) (1966): This beautifully observed character study was one of Ray's earliest original screenplays. En route to an award ceremony, a famous and egocentric Bengali movie star finds that he is compelled to re-evaluate his life after encountering a disapproving young journalist (Sharmila Tagore).

A bank clerk, unable to support his retired father and family, encourages his wife to take a job. Although untrained for anything, she makes a success of it.

A young wife whose husband is too busy working on a weekly paper in English gets infatuated with her husband's cousin, with whom she builds up a world of their own.

The inner conflict of a film star as a result of being interviewed by a woman journalist.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 October, 2008.

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