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8.4/10   362 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Narendranath Mitra (story)
Satyajit Ray (writer)
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Release Date:
6 March 1976 (Japan) more
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Plot:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Cast

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Anil Chatterjee ... Subrata Mazumdar
Madhabi Mukherjee ... Arati Mazumder
Jaya Bhaduri ... Bani
Haren Chatterjee ... Priyogopal (Subrata's father)
Sefalika Devi ... Sarojini (Subrata's Mother)
Prasenjit Sarkar ... Pintu
Haradhan Bannerjee ... Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood ... Edith
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Big City (USA)
The Great City
The Metropolis
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Runtime:
India:131 min | USA:122 min | West Germany:122 min (25 fps)
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Arati: [to her husband] You would not recognize me if you saw me at work. more

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5 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
worth watching, 26 July 2003
10/10
Author: cs_somnath from Kolkata, India

Mahanagar is a masterpiece of Satyajit Ray. It shows how good a movie can be and how great he is. I feel proud of being bengali as I can understand this movie and feel sorry for those who will never be able to taste this excellent work of Satyajit Ray.

It shows how a woman or only a woman can stand against injustice, sacrifice her crying need for a colleague's insult. It is a lesson for us to learn.

The film is directed with all his excellence by Satyajit Ray. Every sceen of the movie shown with subtle care. I failed to find out a single scene as irrelevant or I never felt that there can be a better presentation of any scene shown in the movie. It clearly portraits a poverty ridden bengali family which still have some morale. The movie is really worth watching

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