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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]
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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection, Spine #668]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~26.0 Mbps | 2hr 16mn | 43.6 GB
Bengali: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~26.0 Mbps | 2hr 16mn | 43.6 GB
Bengali: LPCM Audio, 1 ch, 1152 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Satyajit Ray
Writer: Narendranath Mitra (from a story by), Satyajit Ray (scenario)
Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan
The Big City, the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), 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 builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.
Extras:
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee
- Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly
- The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga
- New English subtitle translation
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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]
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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]
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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]
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