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The big city = Mahanagar
Uniform Title
Mahānagara (Motion picture)
Title
The big city = Mahanagar / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; produced by R.D. Bansal ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.
ISBN
9781604657647
1604657642
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Notes
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.
Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
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.
Variant and related titles
Mahanagar
Big city
Container title: Satyajit Ray's The big city
Also known as: The: Great city
Kāpurusha (Motion picture)
Coward.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Bengali
Added to Catalog
March 12, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 668
Credits
Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
Cast
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A; widescreen; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2301BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Motion pictures - India.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Also listed under
Janus Films.
RDB Organization (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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