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Charulata

  • 19641964
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
6.1K
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Charulata (1964)
DramaRomance
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
6.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Satyajit Ray
  • Writers
    • Rabindranath Tagore(from the story "Nastaneer")
    • Satyajit Ray(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Madhabi Mukherjee
    • Shailen Mukherjee
Top credits
  • Director
    • Satyajit Ray
  • Writers
    • Rabindranath Tagore(from the story "Nastaneer")
    • Satyajit Ray(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Madhabi Mukherjee
    • Shailen Mukherjee
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 75Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 2 nominations

    Photos48

    Satyajit Ray in Charulata (1964)
    Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Charulata (1964)
    Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)

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    Soumitra Chatterjee
    Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Amalas Amal
    Madhabi Mukherjee
    Madhabi Mukherjee
    • Charulataas Charulata
    Shailen Mukherjee
    • Bhupati Duttaas Bhupati Dutta
    Shyamal Ghoshal
    Shyamal Ghoshal
    • Umapadaas Umapada
    Gitali Roy
    • Mandakinias Mandakini
    Tarapada Basu
    Gopaldas Bhattacharya
    Dilip Bose
    • Shashankaas Shashanka
    Ramesh Chandra Chandra
    Sunilkanta Dasgupta
    Nilotpal Dey
    • Joydebas Joydeb
    Bankim Ghosh
    • Jagannathas Jagannath
    Ajit Gupta
    Bholanath Koyal
    • Brajaas Braja
    Kamu Mukherjee
    • Fellow Liberal at the Partyas Fellow Liberal at the Party
    Suku Mukherjee
    • Nishikantaas Nishikanta
    Prabhat Sarkar
    Subrata Sensharma
    • Motilalas Motilal
    • (as Subrata Sen)
    • Director
      • Satyajit Ray
    • Writers
      • Rabindranath Tagore(from the story "Nastaneer")
      • Satyajit Ray(scenario) (screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time Bhupati's own cousin, Amal, a would-be writer comes home finishing his college education. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship. —Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.asutexas.edu>
    character name as titleforename as titlenewspaperliteratureloneliness20 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
    • Parents guide
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Ray once called Charulata his favorite of his own films.
    • Goofs
      when Bhupati shows Amal his weekly newspaper 'The Sentinel', it can be seen that it is published every Saturday and the date shown is 7 April 1879 but actually 7 April 1879 was Monday.
    • Quotes

      Amal: All done with studies, exams, professors, cutting classes.

      Charulata: What's left? Foolishness and mischief?

      Amal: Poetry. Rhythm. You know, I was thinking.

      Charulata: What?

      Amal: All of life is like a rhythm. Birth, death. Day - night. Happiness - sorrow. Meeting - parting. Like the waves on the ocean, now rising - now falling. One complements the other.

    • Connections
      Featured in Strange Birds (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      God Save The Queen
      (uncredited)
      Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
      Played on the Piano by Amol (Kumar Basu)

    User reviews38

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    Ray's finest, if one has to pick
    Much as I love this film, I wish that any new viewer might first encounter it on a big screen, with its lovely, rhapsodic recreation of its late 19th Century setting is most apparent. The Chekhov parallels are overwhelming-- same period, same bittersweet attention to over-privileged lives, more than anything else the same rare affinity for female characters.
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    • Dec 29, 1999

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1964 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Languages
      • Bengali
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Charulata: The Lonely Wife
    • Production company
      • R.D.Banshal & Co.
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $77,820
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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