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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Satyajit Ray
- 1964-04-17
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 ).
Sep 4, 2016 · Charulata has been dumped to a lonely and unproductive life by her neo-liberal husband, who publishes a ‘serious’ political newspaper. The movie chronicles the upper class Bengali lifestyle of the time and in ways more than one mocks it.
In 1870s India, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee).
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- Drama
Set in British India in the 19th century, the film revolves around Charulata, the beautiful wife of a learned Calcutta intellectual. She sits at home alone while her wealthy husband Bhupati runs his English language newspaper.