The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
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| Soumitra Chatterjee | ... | Amal | |
| Madhabi Mukherjee | ... | Charulata | |
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Shailen Mukherjee | ... | Bhupati Dutta (as Sailen Mukherjee) |
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Shyamal Ghoshal | ... | Umapada |
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Gitali Roy | ... | Mandakini |
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Tarapada Basu | ||
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Gopaldas Bhattacharya | ||
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Dilip Bose | ... | Shashanka |
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Ramesh Chandra Chandra | ||
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Sunilkanta Dasgupta | ||
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Nilotpal Dey | ... | Joydeb |
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Bankim Ghosh | ... | Jagannath |
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Ajit Gupta | ||
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Bholanath Koyal | ... | Braja |
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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. Written by Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.asutexas.edu>
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Country:
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17 April 1964 (India) See more »Also Known As:
Charulata: The Lonely Wife See more »Edit
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(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
Played on the Piano by Amol (Kumar Basu)
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Raja Ram Nohan Roy (also known as Rammohan Roy) (1772 - 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Sabha movement in 1828. This led to the Brahmo Samaj, an influential Bengali socio-religious reform movement. For his many and varied activities and his contributions to Indian (Bengali) society, Raja Ram Mohan Roy is regarded as one of the most significant figures in the Bengali renaissance of the early 19th century. See more »Goofs
When Bhupati shows Amal his weekly newspaper 'The Sentinel', he reads the details as " 24th issue of the sentinel dated April the 9th, 1879' but when Amal sees it, the date is printed on the newspaper as 7 April, 1879. See more »Soundtracks
God Save The Queen(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
Played on the Piano by Amol (Kumar Basu)
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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.