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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
(From t5m.com. 15 August 2008, 5:04 AM, PDT)
(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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117 min
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Referenced in The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
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As cinema appears to become ever more loud and brash, a work as delicate, subtle and understated as this may easily pass unnoticed, or mistaken as insipid. That is a great shame, since this is obviously a great masterpiece. Set in India in the last century, Charulata is trapped in a dull, stifling marriage. What starts off as innocent flirting with her brother-in-law soon sets off emotions that none of them, decent though they all are, can really control. There is no adultery as such - the betrayal is all in the mind - but the trust implicit in marriage is broken, and the future can only be faced with uncertainty.
This is a film of great grace and elegance, and also of considerable wit. But underneath the surface charm is a great seriousness. As always, Ray depicts the development of the characters with great insight and sensitivity, and coaxes fine performances from his cast. Western critics, in discussing this film, often draw parallels with the works of Chekhov or of Henry James, but Ray's inspiration was actually the great Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, on whose short novel this film was based. As a piece of film-making, it is absolute perfection - a real gem.