Charulata

Poignant study of a lonely wife’s flirtation with her husband’s handsome cousin in Victorian Calcutta., Acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray’s poignant study of a lonely wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) in Victorian Calcutta who flirts with her husband’s handsome cousin. Amal: Soumitra Chatterjee. Bhupati: Shailen Mukherjee. Umapada: Shyamal Ghoshal., Famed Indian director Satyajit Ray keys into the smallest nuances of married life in this keenly observed, but lugubriously paced, domestic drama, examining with a surgeon’s precision an emotional marital triangle that develops in a well-to-do Bengali household., Acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray’s poignant study of a lonely wife in Victorian Calcutta who flirts with her husband’s handsome cousin., The Satyajit Ray season continues.