The Big City (1963)
September 27, 1963Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Anil Chatterjee
Subrata Mazumdar
Madhabi Mukherjee
Arati Mazumder
Jaya Bachchan
Bani
Haren Chatterjee
Priyogopal (Subrata's father)
Sefalika Devi
Sarojini (Subrata's Mother)
Prasenjit Sarkar
Pintu
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood
Edith Simmons
Shyamal Ghoshal
Anupam
Gitali Roy
Anupam's Wife
Tapan Chatterjee
Subrata's Colleague
Manisha Chakraborty
Actress
Satyajit Ray
Director
Narendranath Mitra
Writer
R.D. Bansal
Producer
Subrata Mitra
Cinematographer
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Bansi Chandragupta
ProductionDesigner
Ananta Das
Makeup Artist
Shailen Ganguli
Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee
Anuradha Guha
Samir Lahiri
Ashok Mitra
Arun Chowdhury
Pritish Dey
Smita Sinha
Shila Pal
Shailesh Mukherjee
Shailen Mukherjee
Tarak Mitra
Jyoti Kripalani
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Mahanagar (মহানগর lit. 'The Big City') is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Starring Madhabi Mukherjee in the leading role and based on the short story Abataranika by Narendranath Mitra, it tells the story of a housewife who disconcerts her traditionalist family by getting the job of a saleswoman. The film marked the first screen appearance of Jaya Bhaduri, one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses.
Shot in the first half of 1963 in Calcutta, this was also the first film directed by Ray set entirely in his native Calcutta, reflecting contemporary realities of the urban middle-class, where women going to work is no longer merely driven by ideas of emancipation but has become an economic reality. The film examines the effects of the confident working woman on patriarchial attitudes and social dynamics. Besides The Apu Trilogy, the film, according to veteran film critic Philip French, is one of Ray's greatest films.