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The Big City (Mahanagar)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | June 29, 1967 |
| Running time: | 122 minutes |
| Cast: | Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi |
| Director: | Satyajit Ray |
| Producer: | R.D. Bansal |
| Writer: | Narendranath Mitra, Satyajit Ray |
| Distributor: | Edward Harrison/Sony Pictures Classics |
Description: Satyajit Ray, India's premiere film director, takes a rare foray into social satire with 1963's The Big City. Anil Chaterjee stars as the typically subjugated wife of an Indian bank official. When the banker loses his job, he orders Anil to find work to make ends meet. The wife subsequently runs the household finances so brilliantly that soon she is in the driver's seat, in direct opposition to long-established Indian matrimonial custom. Seen by some critics as a subtle plea for improving the status of Indian womanhood, The Big City was based on a novel by Narbenda Nath Mitra.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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