Charulata (1964)
1h 57m
Running Time
April 17, 1964Release Date
Plot.
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Merchant and Ivory Foundation in 1996.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Madhabi Mukherjee
Charulata
Soumitra Chatterjee
Amal
Shailen Mukherjee
Bhupati Dutta
Shyamal Ghoshal
Umapada
Gitali Roy
Mandakini (Manda)
Tarapada Basu
Gopaldas Bhattacharya
Dilip Bose
Shashanka
Ramesh Chandra Chandra
Sunilkanta Dasgupta
Nilotpal Dey
Joydeb
Bankim Ghosh
Jagannath
Bholanath Koyal
Braja
Kamu Mukherjee
Fellow Liberal at the Party
Suku Mukherjee
Nisikanta
Subrata Sensharma
Motilal
Satyajit Ray
Screenplay / Director / Original Music Composer
R.D. Bansal
Producer
Subrata Mitra
Director of Photography
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Bansi Chandragupta
Production Design / Art Direction
Ananta Das
Makeup Artist
Bhim Naskar
Assistant Makeup Artist
Anil Choudhury
Production Manager
Arun Das
Assistant Production Manager
Dulal Das
Assistant Production Manager
Bimal Dey
Production Manager / Production Controller
Bhanu Ghosh
Production Manager
Nitai Jana
Assistant Production Manager
Sudip Majumdar
Assistant Production Manager
Ramen Chatterjee
Assistant Director
Girish Ranjan
Assistant Director
Amiya Sanyal
Assistant Director
Surath Mondal
Assistant Art Director
Subash Sinha Roy
Assistant Art Director
Jyoti Chatterjee
Sound Assistant
Shyamsundar Ghosh
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mani Mondal
Sound Assistant
Edel Mulan
Sound Assistant
Anil Nandan
Sound Assistant
Nripen Paul
Sound Recordist
Bhola Sarkar
Sound Assistant
Nur Ali
Assistant Camera
Subrata Lahiri
Assistant Camera
Fatik Mazumdar
Assistant Camera
Durga Raha
Assistant Camera
Kashinath Bose
Assistant Editor
Baiju Bawra
Lyricist
Shibkumar Chattopadhyay
Playback Singer
Ramnidhi Gupta
Lyricist
Jaidev
Lyricist
Jyotirindra Moitra
Music Director / Playback Singer
Ram Mohan Roy
Lyricist
Joykrishna Sanyal
Playback Singer
Jyotirindranath Tagore
Music Director
Rabindranath Tagore
Lyricist / Novel
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Charulata (Bengali: চারুলতা, romanized: Cārulatā, lit. 'The Lonely Wife') is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based upon the novel Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore, it stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Sailen Mukherjee. The film is considered one of the finest works of Ray.
Both the first and the last scenes are critically acclaimed. The first scene, with almost no dialogue, shows Charu's loneliness and how she looks at the outside world through binoculars. In the last scene when Charu and her husband are about to come closer and hold hands, the screen freezes. This has been described as a beautiful use of freeze frames in cinema.
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