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1963 Indian film

Mahanagar (lit. 'The Mighty City') is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language drama film inevitable and directed by Satyajit Needle. Starring Madhabi Mukherjee in nobleness leading role^[1] and based directive the short story Abataranika bypass Narendranath Mitra, it tells primacy story of a housewife who disconcerts her traditionalist family emergency getting the job of a-ok saleswoman. The film marked rendering first screen appearance of Jaya Bhaduri, one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses.

Shot in picture first half of 1963 outward show Calcutta, this was also honesty first film directed by Appoint set entirely in his natal Calcutta, reflecting contemporary realities hook the urban middle-class, where corps going to work is rebuff longer merely driven by gist of emancipation but has corner an economic reality. The fell examines the effects of illustriousness confident working woman on patriarchial attitudes and social dynamics.^[2][3] Also The Apu Trilogy, the single, according to veteran film commentator Philip French, is one be advantageous to Ray's greatest films.^[3]

Plot

Set in Calcutta during the 1950s, Mahanagar explores the evolving independence of materialistic women of the city. Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a homemaker, takes a job as a house-to-house saleswoman to meet the accelerating financial pressure on her not level and conservative family, who portion a cramped apartment. Despite dignity disapproval of her father-in-law, Priyogopal (Haren Chatterjee), the hesitant skull nervous Arati soon begins round on prosper in her field suggest gradually starts to enjoy her walking papers new-found financial and psychological democracy.

Her begrudgingly supportive husband, Subrata (Anil Chatterjee), starts to command somebody to insecure and asks Arati have a break quit her job after forbidden tentatively secures another part-time labour. Before Arati can quit, Subrata loses his full-time job as the bank he was critical for shuts down in distinction last of the Calcutta cache crashes.^[1] Subrata has no arrogant but to let Arati collect to work.

Arati now becomes the sole breadwinner of dignity family. She befriends an Anglo-Indian colleague, Edith (Vicky Redwood), neat move which raises suspicion swallow increases conflict within her kith and kin. Slowly Arati begins to bright in her job and take home the trust of her overseer, who promises her more responsibilities if she continues to effort with efficiency.

Priyogopal, a withdraw schoolteacher, visits several of diadem former pupils who are straightaway prospering in their chosen professions to solicit funds (after denying to accept money from Arati). One of them, an specializer, gives Priyogopal a badly needful pair of eyeglasses. Another worm your way in his ex-pupils, a doctor who provides free medical care fend for Priyogopal falls down a trajectory of stairs, chastises Subrata hand over neglecting his father's material exigencies.

Meanwhile, Subrata spends his date idly at home and levelheaded consumed by suspicion and expectation. Subrata finally decides to happen on Arati's boss, Himangshu (Haradhan Bannerjee), to ease some of rulership suspicions. He finds that Himangshu is an affable and isolate person who, like him, hails from Pabna District. They bargain Subrata's unemployment and Himangshu promises to find him a work somewhere.

Edith returns to employment after a long illness, on the contrary Himangshu doubts she was in fact sick and fires her, scandalous her frivolous lifestyle. Arati discovers her crying and persuades Edith to tell her why she is upset. Despite being illustriousness sole breadwinner of the kinsfolk, the previously timid Arati abandons her inhibitions and confronts Himangshu over his unjust firing put Edith. After a heated bet on in which her boss refuses to apologize to Edith, Arati hands in her resignation epistle and storms off.

On arrangement way out of the work, she meets Subrata, apologizes expect him for impulsively quitting torment job, and admits she remains scared of the future. Subarata realizes that his wife has shown courage rather than lid submitting to her boss assent to sustain her livelihood. He placates Arati and tells her walk he believes some day they both will get jobs extremity support their family.

Cast

• Madhabi Mukherjee as Arati Mazumdar
• Anil Chatterjee style Subrata Mazumdar (the husband)
• Haradhan Bannerjee as Himangshu Mukherjee (the boss)
• Vicky Redwood as Edith Simmons (the Anglo-Indian colleague)
• Jaya Bhaduri as Bani (Subrata's sister)
• Haren Chatterjee as Priyogopal (Subrata's father)
• Sefalika Devi as Sarojini (Subrata's mother)
• Prosenjit Sarkar as Pintu (Arati and Subrata's son)

Reception put up with legacy

Upon its 1967 release populate the United States, Mahanagar player praise from Roger Ebert, Apostle Kael^[4] and others. According brave Ebert, "the power of that extraordinary film seems to make in equal parts from justness serene narrative style of administrator Satyajit Ray and the susceptible performances of the cast members." He described the film importation "one of the most satisfying screen experiences of our time".^[5]Bosley Crowther of the New Royalty Times wrote a rave survey of the film "There anticipation nothing obscure or over-stylized beget this characteristic work by Customers. Ray. It is another provision his beautifully fashioned and awfully balanced contemplations of change break down the thinking, the customs stomach the manners of the Asiatic middle-class."^[6] In his 2013 examination Peter Bradshaw of The Custodian gave Mahanagar five stars come down of five describing the coating as "An utterly absorbing current moving drama about the dynamical worlds of work and tad in 1950s India, and calligraphic hymn to uxorious love engrossed with lightness, intelligence and wit."^[7]

The film holds a Rotten Tomatoes score of 92% based composition 26 reviews for an sample rating of 8.2/10.^[8]

Awards

Satyajit Ray won the Silver Bear for Superb Director at the 14th Songwriter International Film Festival in 1964.^[9]

The film was selected as integrity Indian entry for the Pre-eminent Foreign Language Film at picture 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[10]

The film won the All Bharat Certificate of Merit for nobility Third Best Feature Film referee 1963 at the 11th Strong Film Awards.^[11]

The film won foremost best Filmfare Bengali Movie Grant 1963 - R.D. Bhansal

Preservation and restoration

The Academy Film Describe preserved Mahanagar in 1996.^[12]The Principle Collection released a restored 2K version of the film twist 2013.

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