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17 April 1964 (India)
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Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage...
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The Auteurs World Cup
(From Alternative Film Guide. 17 November 2009, 12:49 AM, PST)
Wes Anderson’s Indian summer
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(From Alternative Film Guide. 17 November 2009, 12:49 AM, PST)
Wes Anderson’s Indian summer
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Soumitra Chatterjee | ... | Amal |
| Madhabi Mukherjee | ... | Charulata |
| Shailen Mukherjee | ... | Bhupati Dutta |
| Shyamal Ghoshal | ... | Umapada |
| Gitali Roy | ... | Manda |
| Bholanath Koyal | ... | Braja |
| Suku Mukherjee | ... | Nishikanta |
| Dilip Bose | ... | Shashanka |
| Joydeb | ... | Nilotpal Dey |
| Bankim Ghosh | ... | Jagannath |
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| Subrata Sensharma | ... | Motilal |
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The Lonely Wife
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References The Little Foxes (1941)
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The best Satyajit Ray movie. Ray, at his peak, gave us his most convincing insight into love and loyalty, two of his universal themes. Unfortunately, the brilliant Apu trilogy has more of an visceral draw to Western audiences and Charulata is overlooked. The Apu trilogy invokes the idea of the Western view of India right or wrong while Charulata almost represents an anomaly of upperclass Indians in the late Victorian era.
Charulata actually is a better film that any of those in the Apu trilogy (as hard as that is to believe) not to mention the most visually striking. However, the one thing Apu trilogy has over Charulata is its freshness. But this almost the same situation as Martin Scorsese and Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. This is not to say that he didn't make any good movies after that. Goodfellas is perhaps his best.
In the end, Ray had style as well as substance in many of his films and Charulata represents that pinnacle while the Apu trilogy establishes what was to come.