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The Big City (1963)
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Drama · 2h 16m
Arati takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman in Calcutta's wealthy neighbourhoods, in defiance of her traditionally-minded husband, Subrata, and his live-in parents. Emulating her Anglo-Indian friend Edith, who speaks equal to the men she encounters on the job, Arati quickly becomes her firm's top salesperson. When Subrata loses his job, the power dynamic begins to shift.
Cast
Madhabi Mukherjee
Arati Mazumdar
Anil Chatterjee
Subrata Mazumdar
Haren Chatterjee
Priyogopal Mazumdar
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood
Edith Simmons
Jaya Bachchan
Bani Mazumdar
S
Sefalika Devi
Sarojini Mazumdar
Prasenjit Sarkar
Pintu Mazumdar
Shyamal Ghoshal
Anupam
Gitali Roy
Anupam's Wife
Tapan Chatterjee
Subrata's Colleague
B
Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee
Crew
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Screenplay
- Satyajit Ray
- Director of Photography
- Subrata Mitra
- Original Music Composer
- Satyajit Ray
- Editor
- Dulal Dutta
- Producer
- R.D. Bansal
Details
- Original title
- মহানগর
- Release date
- 1963-09-27
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- BN
- Spoken languages
- Bengali, English
- Countries
- India
- Production
- R.D. Bansal & Co.