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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.
Sep 4, 2016 · ‘Charulata’: A Film that Redrew the Indian Moviescape. Sunayan Bhattacharjee. September 4, 2016. When it comes to recreating a certain space-time continuum on reel, there has hardly been anyone as gifted as the uniquely crafty Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
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.
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).
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.
In 1870s India, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee).
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In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses.
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