Mahanagar

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Mahanagar is a 1963 Bengali drama film by Satyajit Ray that explores the social and familial tensions arising when a middle-class housewife takes up employment in Calcutta.

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Mahanagar canonical 3
Arati in Mahanagar 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bengali-language film
drama film
film
alternateEnglishTitle The Big City
basedOn Abataranika
basedOnAuthor Narendranath Mitra
blackAndWhite true
characterFocus Arati
cinematographyBy Subrata Mitra
countryOfOrigin India
director Satyajit Ray
editedBy Dulal Dutta
explores impact of women’s work on family structure
tension between tradition and modernity
urban middle-class life in Calcutta
filmMovement Indian parallel cinema
genre drama
hasFilmPoster yes
mainTheme economic independence
gender roles
middle-class family dynamics
social change
women’s employment
musicBy Satyajit Ray
notableFor portrayal of a working woman in 1960s India
originalLanguage Bengali
partOfFilmographyOf Satyajit Ray
producedBy R. D. Bansal
surface form: R.D. Bansal
productionCompany R. D. Bansal and Company
surface form: R.D. Bansal & Co.
protagonistOccupation saleswoman
protagonistStatus middle-class housewife
releaseDecade 1960s
releaseYear 1963
runtimeMinutes approximately 131
screenplayBy Satyajit Ray
setInCity Calcutta
setInCountry India
setInPeriod 1960s
stars Anil Chatterjee
Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Jaya Bhaduri
Madhabi Mukherjee
writer Satyajit Ray

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Satyajit Ray notableWork Mahanagar
Bengali cinema hasNotableFilm Mahanagar
Madhabi Mukherjee notableWork Mahanagar
Madhabi Mukherjee notableRole Mahanagar
this entity surface form: Arati in Mahanagar