Description
The Big City, the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee
- Satyajit Ray and the Modern Woman, a new interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly
- The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson
New cover by Marian Bantjes
Criterion Collection:
Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium—from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming—Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.
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