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Contributor(s):

Material type: Film

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

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781604657654
1604657650

Other title:

Big city
Container title: Satyajit Ray's The big city
Also known as: The: Great city

Uniform titles:

Mahānagara (Motion picture)

Related works:

Motion picture adaptation of (work) Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975. Mahānagara
Motion picture adaptation of (work) Mitra, Premendra. Janaiko kapuruser kahini

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PK1718.M498 M34 2013
PN1997 .B54 2013

NLM classification:

FC GE 1963 M343

Contents:

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.

Production credits:

Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.

Cast: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar.Summary: Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, 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 gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.Summary: The coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover, now married, when his car breaks down near her home.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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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