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The Big City [Criterion Collection] [DVD] [1963]
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Release Date:08/20/2013
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Description
Satyajit Ray, India's premiere film director, takes a rare foray into social satire with 1963's The Big City. Anil Chaterjee stars as the typically subjugated wife of an Indian bank official. When the banker loses his job, he orders Anil to find work to make ends meet. The wife subsequently runs the household finances so brilliantly that soon she is in the driver's seat, in direct opposition to long-established Indian matrimonial custom. Seen by some critics as a subtle plea for improving the status of Indian womanhood, The Big City was based on a novel by Narbenda Nath Mitra.~Hal Erickson
Features
Disc 1
New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee
Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly
Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B.D. Garga
Disc 2
The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), A short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
Director
- Satyajit Ray
Writer
- Satyajit Ray
Cast
- Anil ChatterjeeSubrata Mazumdar
- Madhabi MukherjeeArati
Crew
- Subrata MitraCinematographer
- Satyajit RayComposer (Music Score)
- Dulal DuttaEditor
- Bansi ChandraguptaProduction Designer
Details
- GenreComedy,Foreign Films
- SubgenreSatire,Feminist Film,Urban Drama
- TitleThe Big City
- Countries ProducedIndia
- Duration131 minutes
- Year of Release1963
- Product TagsCriterion Collection, DVD
- FormatDVD
- Program TypeMovie
- Sound Featuresmonaural
- Screen FormatBlack & White
- Aspect Ratio1.33:1
- LanguageBengali
- SubtitlesEnglish
- Region Code1
- StudioThe Criterion Collection, Inc
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- Product NameThe Big City [Criterion Collection] [DVD] [1963]
- UPC715515109413
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