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Anil Chatterjee,
Jaya Bhaduri
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Satyajit Ray
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: Not Rated
: Muktadhara
: 131 min.
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Subrata Mazumdar, an unassuming employee of a bank in Calcutta, has problems providing for the needs of his family. Against established custom and the reproofs of her father-in-law, a retired professor, his wife Arati looks for a job. She finds work selling sewing machines door-to-door. When she proves successful in her work and gains untraditional self-confidence, her husband is unable to accept the situation and would love for her to quit. As the result of a crisis at the bank, however, he loses his job and his wife's work becomes even more essential. Arati establishes a friendship with a colleague, an Anglo-Indian woman, and takes her side when she is unjustly punished by their boss. On the strength of her convictions, Arati is willing to sacrifice her own job and her family's needs as an expression of solidarity with her friend. The film ends with a more equal re-alignment of the relationship between Arati and her husband.
[description from the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection used with permission]
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| A Black and White Gem
by squad
October 23, 2004 - 8:25 PM PDT
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| This black and white film devoid of music surprised me. The acting is very good, as is the simple story. All of the characters are believable. Her employer is a very sympathetic character, and his outcome is somewhat of a surprise. Maybe because of the year the film was made, the issue of office romance wasn't pursued or left unspoken, but perhaps that was the direction the film would have taken had there been an alternate ending. As unbollywood as it can get, but still worthwhile to me. |
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