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6 March 1976 (Japan) morePlot:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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A fascinating dissection of gender roles in the age of modernity. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Anil Chatterjee | ... | Subrata Mazumdar | |
| Madhabi Mukherjee | ... | Arati Mazumder | |
| Jaya Bhaduri | ... | Bani | |
| Haren Chatterjee | ... | Priyogopal (Subrata's father) | |
| Sefalika Devi | ... | Sarojini (Subrata's Mother) | |
| Prasenjit Sarkar | ... | Pintu | |
| Haradhan Bannerjee | ... | Himangshu Mukherjee | |
| Vicky Redwood | ... | Edith |
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India:131 min | USA:122 min | West Germany:122 min (25 fps)Country:
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I loved this film. Madhabi Mukherjee is gorgeous and so engaging, with the virtuosic ability to represent the stresses of a changing Calcutta through a simple glance. Mahanagar is a fascinating dramatic case study of the collision of modernism and traditionalism that produced a sociocultural duality/dichotomy in twentieth-century India's urban landscapes.
We see all sorts of manifestations of duality in Mahanagar. The tension-cum-rivalry of Arati and Subrata is, of course, the most obvious manifestation. However, we also have the duality of the new- generation Arati/Subrata and the old-generation Sarojini/Priyogopal (Subrata's mother and father) and Arati, who wears traditional clothing and speaks Bengali, versus Edith, the English-speaking Anglo-Indian in Western dress. These instances of duality speak directly to the moment in which things began to make a 180-degree shift in India, when women became the breadwinners of the household and traditional gender norms became subsumed by sexual liberation.
With a leading lady as precise as Mukherjee, Ray was able wrap these complex coterminous processes up in a relatively tidy package. Mahanagar is essential viewing.