Nonton Film: 60567 the big city 1963 Sub Indo

The Big City (1963)

Overview: After her husband loses his job a housewife from a middle-class conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

Genres: Drama

Director: Satyajit Ray

Cast: Madhabi Mukherjee, Anil Chatterjee, Haren Chatterjee, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Vicky Redwood

Original Language: BN

Original Title: মহানগর

Budget: N/A

Revenue: N/A

MPAA Rating: PG

Keywords: husband wife relationship, mother-in-law, money, calcutta, lipstick, new job, parent-in-law child-in-law relationship, criterion, working woman, salesgirl, family disapproval, understated, compassionate, earnest, melodramatic

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Reviews

Sayantan Chatterjee (July 9, 2018)

Rating: 9.5 / 10

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

— Milton Berle

Owing to a banking failure typical of the post-independence India, Subrata(Anil Chatterjee) loses his job and must reconcile with the shortcomings of the situation, his insecurities as his wife Arati(Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes the sole breadwinner of the family. Arati's story feels both intricately real and extremely personal as the narrative flows from the tantrums at home to the politics at the office, and she must learn to be adept at handing either of them as she gets to mingle with other classes and races of the society, breaking through her shyness in both her appearance and her speech. The Big City (মহানগর) leaves us ruminating at the grappling for opportunities at the transience of hope and progress, regardless of race and gender, amongst a myriad of opportunities and the humdrum of the bustling citizens. This work from Ray gains its mammoth significance as he makes the viewers truly manages to care for this simple family with a simple narrative, with a true sense of depth and detail, yet somehow remaining weightless and effortless in depicting the social evolution. A true masterpiece.