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The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 2 nominations
Madhavi Mukherjee
- Charulata
- (as Madhabi Mukherjee)
- …
Shailen Mukherjee
- Bhupati
- (as Sailen Mukherjee)
- …
Subrata Sensharma
- Motilal
- (as Subrata Sen)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaRay once called Charulata his favorite of his own films.
- Goofswhen Bhupati shows Amal his weekly newspaper 'The Sentinel', it can be seen that it is published every Saturday and the date shown is 7 April 1879 but actually 7 April 1879 was Monday.
- Quotes
Amal: All done with studies, exams, professors, cutting classes.
Charulata: What's left? Foolishness and mischief?
Amal: Poetry. Rhythm. You know, I was thinking.
Charulata: What?
Amal: All of life is like a rhythm. Birth, death. Day - night. Happiness - sorrow. Meeting - parting. Like the waves on the ocean, now rising - now falling. One complements the other.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD (Extra Movie in "IL LAMENTO SUL SENTIERO"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Strange Birds (2017)
- SoundtracksGod Save The Queen
(uncredited)
Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
Played on the Piano by Amol (Kumar Basu)
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Not given publicity it richly deserves
The best Satyajit Ray movie. Ray, at his peak, gave us his most convincing insight into love and loyalty, two of his universal themes. Unfortunately, the brilliant Apu trilogy has more of an visceral draw to Western audiences and Charulata is overlooked. The Apu trilogy invokes the idea of the Western view of India right or wrong while Charulata almost represents an anomaly of upperclass Indians in the late Victorian era.
Charulata actually is a better film than any of those in the Apu trilogy (as hard as that is to believe) not to mention the most visually striking. However, the one thing Apu trilogy has over Charulata is its freshness. But this almost the same situation as Martin Scorsese and Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. This is not to say that he didn't make any good movies after that. Goodfellas is perhaps his best.
In the end, Ray had style as well as substance in many of his films and Charulata represents that pinnacle while the Apu trilogy establishes what was to come.
Charulata actually is a better film than any of those in the Apu trilogy (as hard as that is to believe) not to mention the most visually striking. However, the one thing Apu trilogy has over Charulata is its freshness. But this almost the same situation as Martin Scorsese and Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. This is not to say that he didn't make any good movies after that. Goodfellas is perhaps his best.
In the end, Ray had style as well as substance in many of his films and Charulata represents that pinnacle while the Apu trilogy establishes what was to come.
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- Charulata: The Lonely Wife
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- Gross US & Canada
- $77,820
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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