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Charulata (The Lonely Wife), 1964 |
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Production: R.D. Bansal & Co. |
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Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on the story, Nastoneer, by Rabindranath Tagore |
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Photography: Subrata Mitra |
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Art Director: Bansi Chandragupta |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Nripen Paul |
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Duration: 117 mins |
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Date of release in India: 17th April, 1964. B&W |
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The brother-in-law, Amal, writes a poetic piece
while Charu watches him from the swing. |
| The Story |
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The lonely Charu dreams of writing about her
village to draw the attention of her brother-in-law |
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Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee (Amal), Madhabi Mukherjee (Charu), Sailen Mukherjee (Bhupati), Shyamal Ghosal (Umapada), Gitali Roy (Mandakini), Bholanath Koyal (Braja), Suku Mukherjee (Nisikanta), Dilip Bose (Sasanka), Subrata Sen Sharma (Motilal), Nilotpal Dey (Joydeb), Bankim Ghosh (Jagannath). |
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| Awards |
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President's Gold Medal, New Delhi, 1964 |
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Silver Bear for Best Direction, Berlin Film Festival , 1965 |
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Catholic Award, Berlin Film Festival , 1965 |
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Best Film, Acapulco Film Festival, 1965 |
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The location is Calcutta, around 1880. Bhupati, who edits and publishes in his home a political newspaper called The Sentinel, is persuaded that his wife Charulata has special gifts as a writer. When his young cousin (the relationship is considered to be equivalent to Charu's brother-in-law), Amal, comes to spend a vacation with them, Bhupati asks him to encourage her cultural interests, but in such a way that she remains unaware of her husband's intervention in setting up their encounter. An increasingly intimate relationship develops between Charulata and Amal: one based on complicity, friendship, writing, and eventually love. Meanwhile, the bookkeeper of The Sentinel, another family member, embezzles the funds supporting the paper and destroys Bhupati's hopes for his enterprise. He also finds that the trust he has placed in Charulata and Amal has been compromised by their feelings for each other. |
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| The husband, obsessed with politics, explains to his cousin about the excitement of getting involved in affairs of the state. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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