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Release Date:
17 April 1964 (India) more
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Plot:
Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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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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Cast

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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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Also Known As:
The Lonely Wife
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117 min
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References The Little Foxes (1941) more

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Not given publicity it richly deserves, 17 October 2000
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Author: kaimal from Alexandria, Louisiana

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.

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