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Charulata

  • 19641964
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 57m
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8.1/10
6.6K
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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.
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6.6K
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    • Satyajit Ray
    • Rabindranath Tagore(from the story "Nastaneer")
    • Satyajit Ray(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Madhavi Mukherjee
    • Shailen Mukherjee
    • Satyajit Ray
    • Rabindranath Tagore(from the story "Nastaneer")
    • Satyajit Ray(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Madhavi Mukherjee
    • Shailen Mukherjee
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 38User reviews
    • 77Critic reviews
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    Satyajit Ray in Charulata (1964)
    Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Charulata (1964)
    Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)
    Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhavi Mukherjee in Charulata (1964)

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

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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

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    10/10
    Absolute perfection
    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.
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    • Jun 20, 1999

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1964 (India)
      • India
      • Satyajit Ray (India)
      • Bengali
      • English
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      • R.D.Banshal & Co.
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    • 1 hour 57 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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