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The RDB Organization
Directed by: Satyajit Ray
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.
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Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
Bengali PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Feature Film, Documentary, Booklet
- New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee
- Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly
- The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga
- A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and a 1980s interview with Satyajit Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
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