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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 personaI 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 detaiIs of everyday working-class life, Ray graduaIly builds a powerfuI human drama that is at once a hopeful moraIity tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman. |
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