Mahanagar = The big city /
Material type: FilmPublisher number: CC2302D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Bengali Original language: Bengali Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 668.Distributor: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)Content type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604657654
- 1604657650
- Big city
- Container title: Satyajit Ray's The big city
- Also known as: The: Great city
- Mahānagara (Motion picture)
- Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975 -- Film adaptations
- Mitra, Premendra -- Film adaptations
- Mitra, Premendra
- Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975
- Women -- India -- Drama
- Women employees -- India -- Drama
- Married women -- Employment -- India -- Drama
- Women employees
- Women
- Married women -- Employment
- Kolkata (India) -- Drama
- India -- Kolkata
- India
- 791.43/72 23
- PK1718.M498 M34 2013
- PN1997 .B54 2013
- FC GE 1963 M343
- Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.
Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Video Recording | Carleton University, AVRC | SP456 - Collections Room | DVD-03433 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 16050310351 |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
From a story by Narendranath Mitra.
Special features: Disc 1: Madhabi Mukherjee (new interview with the actor); Satyajit Ray and the modern woman (interview with Satyajit Ray scholar and author Suranjan Ganguly); B.D. Garga's Satyajit Ray (1974 documentary featuring narration by Satyajit Ray and on-set footage from the making of The big city). Disc 2: Kāpurusha = The coward (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward.
Booklet features an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta entitled "A woman's place" and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson.
Disc 1. The big city -- Disc 2. Kāpurusha = The coward / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; R.D. Bansal presents ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles.
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