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8.3/10   689 votes
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Release Date:
17 April 1964 (India) more
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Plot:
Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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(2 articles)
The Auteurs World Cup
 (From Alt Film Guide. 17 November 2009, 12:49 AM, PST)

Wes Anderson’s Indian summer
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Cast

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Soumitra Chatterjee ... Amal
Madhabi Mukherjee ... Charulata
Shailen Mukherjee ... Bhupati Dutta
Shyamal Ghoshal ... Umapada
Gitali Roy ... Manda
Bholanath Koyal ... Braja
Suku Mukherjee ... Nishikanta
Dilip Bose ... Shashanka
Joydeb ... Nilotpal Dey
Bankim Ghosh ... Jagannath
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Subrata Sensharma ... Motilal
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Directed by
Satyajit Ray 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Satyajit Ray  writer
Rabindranath Tagore  story "Nashta Neer/The Broken Nest"

Original Music by
Satyajit Ray 
 
Cinematography by
Subrata Mitra 
 
Film Editing by
Dulal Dutta 
 
Production Design by
Bansi Chandragupta 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Amiya Sanyal .... first assistant director
 
Sound Department
Atul Chatterjee .... sound
Nripen Paul .... sound
Sujit Sarkar .... sound
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Lonely Wife
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117 min
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Referenced in The Darjeeling Limited (2007) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Ray's finest, if one has to pick, 29 December 1999
10/10
Author: Tector from John Warthen, Amherst, MA

Much as I love this film, I wish that any new viewer might first encounter it on a big screen, with its lovely, rhapsodic recreation of its late 19th Century setting is most apparent. The Chekhov parallels are overwhelming-- same period, same bittersweet attention to over-privileged lives, more than anything else the same rare affinity for female characters.

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