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Charulata ( Bengali: চারুলতা, romanized : Cārulatā, lit. 'The Lonely Wife') is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based upon the novel Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore, it stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Sailen Mukherjee.
Charulata: Directed by Satyajit Ray. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal. The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Nov 30, 2013 · The story of the film is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novella Nastanirh ( The Broken Nest, 1901) about a neglected wife in a wealthy Bengali milieu. In that story, the young cousin of a wealthy Bengali aristocrat comes for a visit and strikes up a friendship with his older cousin’s young wife.
In Charulata as in Ghare Baire (The Home and the World, 1984), Satyajit Ray explores the emergence of the modern woman in the upper-class of colonial India. One can not help drawing parallels with Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
Set in British India in the 19th century, the film revolves around Charulata, the beautiful wife of a learned Calcutta intellectual. She sits at home alone while her wealthy husband Bhupati runs his English language newspaper.
Jun 26, 2022 · The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature. Director: Satyajit Ray Writers: Rabindranath Tagore (from the...
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).
