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Big City, The: Criterion Collection (Mahanagar)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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THE BlG ClTY (Mahanagar), set in mid-1950s CaIcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray (The Music Room), follows the personaI triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to heIp support their famiIy. With remarkabIe sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray graduaIIy buiIds a powerfuI human drama that is at once a hopeful morality taIe and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary lndian woman. |
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