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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 CaIcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray (The Music Room), folIows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initiaI 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-cIass life, Ray graduaIly buiIds a powerfuI human drama that is at once a hopeful moraIity taIe and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary lndian woman. |
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