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Charulata (Bengali: চারুলতা, romanized: Cārulatā, lit. 'The Lonely Wife') is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray . Based upon the novel Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore , it stars Soumitra Chatterjee , Madhabi Mukherjee and Sailen Mukherjee.
Charulata: Directed by Satyajit Ray. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal. The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Charulata. Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee).
4 days ago · ‘Charulata’ is placed in a sophisticated, urban setting, in contrast to the ‘Apu trilogy’, one of Ray’s finest works. Nevertheless, this is the only film that Ray ever created that approaches the issues of love, maturation, and fidelity with such intelligence and compassion—not even the well-known ‘Apu trilogy’.
Jun 26, 2022 · The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature. Director: Satyajit Ray Writers: Rabindranath Tagore (from...
Nov 30, 2013 · The story of the film is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novella Nastanirh ( The Broken Nest, 1901) about a neglected wife in a wealthy Bengali milieu. In that story, the young cousin of a wealthy Bengali aristocrat comes for a visit and strikes up a friendship with his older cousin’s young wife.
Aug 20, 2013 · Charulata (1964), often rated the director’s finest film—and the one that, when pressed, he would name as his own personal favorite: “It’s the one with the fewest flaws”—is adapted from Tagore’s 1901 novella Nastanirh (The Broken Nest).
