The Music Room

Satyajit Ray’s elegiac chamber piece with Chabi Biswas as a melancholy aristocratic landowner who, after the death of his wife and son and the decline of his fortunes, decides to spend his last remaining money on a concert of classical music and dance., A portrait of the deteriorating life of an old aristocrat in India, where he lives in the past, in a slowly decaying villa, and cannot adjust to the fast-changing, vastly different modern world that surrounds him on all sides., Released shortly before his Apu trilogy, this is felt to be one of Satyaijt Ray’s finest productions. Based on a novel by Tarashankar Banerjee, it is the story of the decline of the aristocracy–watching as a wealthy man slowly loses his wealth, his position, his family and his sanity while he watches life go on status quo for all of his friends and neighbors.