Mahanagar
Subtitle: The big city
By: The RDB Organization ; produced by R. D. Bansal ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray
Contributors: Chatterjee, Anil, 1928- actor; Mukhopādhyāẏa, Mādhabī, 1943- actor; Banerjee, Haradhan, actor; Chatterjee, Haren, actor; Redwood, Vicky, actor; Bhaduri, Jaya, actor; Devi, Sefalika, actor; Sarkar, Prasenjit, actor; Mitra, Subrata, 1930-2001, director of photography; Chandragupta, Bansi, production designer; Dutta, Dulal, editor of moving image work; Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Saumitra, 1935- actor; Ganguly, Suranjan, 1958- interviewee (expression); Garga, B. D. (Bhagwan Das), 1924-2011 filmmaker; Mitra, Narendranātha, 1916-1975; Mitra, Premendra; Sengoopta, Chandak, author of added text; Robinson, Andrew, 1957- interviewer (expression); Janus Films; RDB Organization (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series: The Criterion collection -- 668; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 668.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York]
Language: ben
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781604657654
Subjects: Drama; Married women; Employment; Women employees; Film adaptations; Women
Other titles: Big city; Satyajit Ray's The big city; Great city; Kāpurusha (Motion picture); Coward.
Work titles: Mahānagara (Motion picture)
Description: Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, 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 gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary Indian woman.

The coward: An aspiring screenwriter encounters a former lover, now married, when his car breaks down near her home.
Notes: Title and statement of responsibility from English subtitles.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.

From a story by Narendranath Mitra.

Special features: Disc 1: Madhabi Mukherjee (new interview with the actor); Satyajit Ray and the modern woman (interview with Satyajit Ray scholar and author Suranjan Ganguly); B.D. Garga's Satyajit Ray (1974 documentary featuring narration by Satyajit Ray and on-set footage from the making of The big city). Disc 2: Kāpurusha = The coward (1965) (a feature film by Ray; starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee; based on a story by Premendra Mitra); About The coward. Booklet features an essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and an interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson.

Cinematography, Subrata Mitra ; production design by Bansi Chandragupta ; edited by Dulal Dutta.

Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Haren Chatterjee, Vicky Redwood, Jaya Bhuduri, Sefalika Devi, Prasenjit Sarkar.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.

In Bengali, with optional subtitles in English.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1. The big city; title: Disc 2. Kāpurusha = The coward / Janus Films ; The RDB Organization ; R.D. Bansal presents ; screenplay, music, and direction by Satyajit Ray.