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Bookmark this pageMahanagar (1963)
Director: Sayajit Ray
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A funny and ambiguously ironic account of a young woman's progress from subdued, traditional housewife to wage earner, finally achieving equality when she resigns her job - a gesture of solidarity for a sacked friend - and joins her husband among the ranks of the lower middle class urban unemployed. Set in 1955 in a bank crash-ridden Calcutta, Ray's Ozu-like comedy about anglicised Indians who sprinkle their conversation with English phrases marks a step forward from the famous pastorales which made his name in the West.Author: PW
Cast & crew
Director: Sayajit Ray
Producer: RD Bansal
Cast: Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, Haradhan Banerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood full cast
Duration: 131 mins
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