The Big City (1963)
September 27, 1963Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Madhabi Mukherjee
Arati Mazumdar
Anil Chatterjee
Subrata Mazumdar
Haren Chatterjee
Priyogopal Mazumdar
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood
Edith Simmons
Jaya Bachchan
Bani Mazumdar
Sefalika Devi
Sarojini Mazumdar
Prasenjit Sarkar
Pintu Mazumdar
Shyamal Ghoshal
Anupam
Gitali Roy
Anupam's Wife
Tapan Chatterjee
Subrata's Colleague
Satyajit Ray
Director / Original Music Composer / Screenplay
R.D. Bansal
Producer
Subrata Mitra
Director of Photography
Narendranath Mitra
Short Story
Ananta Das
Makeup Artist
Bansi Chandragupta
Production Design / Art Direction
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Jyoti Kripalani
Tarak Mitra
Shailen Mukherjee
Shailesh Mukherjee
Shila Pal
Smita Sinha
Anuradha Guha
Shailen Ganguli
Pritish Dey
Arun Chowdhury
Ashok Mitra
Samir Lahiri
Manisha Chakraborty
Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee
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Details.
Release DateSeptember 27, 1963
Original Nameমহানগর
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 16m
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Mahanagar (lit. 'The Mighty 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.