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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 Calcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray (The Music Room), follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-cIerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkabIe sensitivity and attention to the detaiIs of everyday working-class Iife, Ray graduaIly buiIds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality taIe and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman. |
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