Charulata
Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). When her husband’s poet cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both creatively inspired and dangerously drawn to him. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
Special Features
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri
- Archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
Cover illustration by Satyajit Ray, design by Marian Bantjes
Special Features
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New interview program with actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Adapting Tagore, a new interview program featuring Indian film scholar Moinak Biswas and Bengali cultural historian Supriya Chaudhuri
- Archival audio interview with director Satyajit Ray, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Philip Kemp and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
Cover illustration by Satyajit Ray, design by Marian Bantjes
Cast
- Madhabi Mukherjee
- Charulata
- Shailen Mukherjee
- Bhupati
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Amal, Bhupati’s cousin
- Shyamal Ghosal
- Umapada, Charulata’s brother
- Gitali Roy
- Mandakini, Umapada’s wife
- Bholanath Koyal
- Braja, the attendant
- Suku Mukherjee
- Nishikanta
- Dilip Bose
- Sasanka, celebration host
- Subrata Sen
- Motilal, celebration guest
- Nilatpal Dey
- Joydeb, singer at celebration
- Bankim Ghosh
- Jagannath, moneylender
Credits
- Director
- Satyajit Ray
- Producer
- R. D. Bansal
- Based on the original novella The Broken Nest by
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Music
- Satyajit Ray
- Screenplay
- Satyajit Ray
- Cinematography
- Subrata Mitra
- Art director
- Bansi Chandragupta
- Editor
- Dulal Dutta
- Sound
- Nripen Paul
- Sound
- Atul Chatterjee
- Sound
- Sujit Sarkar
- Lighting
- Satish Haldar
- Songs by
- Baiju Bawra
- Songs by
- Joydeb
- Songs by
- Nidhubabu
- Songs by
- Raja Rammohan Roy
- Songs by
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Songs by
- Tansen
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