THE BIG CITY (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Big City, the great Satyajit Ray's first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, 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 family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.; ;
• Cast: Anil Chatterjee; Madhabi Mukherjee; Jaya Bachchan; Haren Chatterjee; Sefalika Devi; Prasenjit Sarkar; Haradhan Bannerjee; Vicky Redwood; Bibhuti Banerjee; Tapan Chatterjee; Shailen Mukherjee; Subrata Sensharma; Satyajit Ray; Narendranath Mitra; R.D. Bansal; Subrata Mitra; Dulal Dutta; Bansi Chandragupta
• Director: Satyajit Ray
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: R.D. Banshal & Co., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie