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Cast
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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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Kamu Mukherjee | ||
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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:
IndiaRelease Date:
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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Bankim-Babu (full name: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee) (1838-1894) was a popular Bengali writer, poet and journalist. See more »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. 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.