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Charulata (1964)
Director: Satyajit Ray
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From Time Out Film Guide
A wonderfully Jamesian study of Victorian India in which a neglected wife, on the point of breaking through to self-awareness, begins to perceive male dominion as a hollow façade of beards, braces and boredom. Immensely funny (with the dialogue peppered by solemn anglicisms and toasts to Gladstone and the Liberals), but also elegant and gracefully moving as the heroine flirts with romance and domestic tragedy on her way to becoming the New Woman. Certainly one of Ray's best films, with a superb music score of his own composition.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Satyajit Ray
Producer: RD Bansal
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Geetali Roy full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 124 mins
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