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Big City, The: Criterion Collection (Mahanagar)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Big City (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-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their famiIy. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-cIass Iife, Ray gradualIy buiIds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopefuI morality taIe and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary lndian woman. |
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