Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

The director’s own favourite of his films set in late 19th – century Bengal, boasts a marvellously Victorian
heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously
bored. Charulata’s household, a vast ornate mansion, is one of seething suppressed emotions, subtly
revealed by Subrata Mittra’s eloquent camera.

Dir: Satyajit Ray: India 1964 (117 mins)

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