The last day of shooting for Mahanagar took place on a street in the Alipur area of Calcutta. When we were done Manik-da said, “When do you think we can work together again?” The phone call came a few ...

When two of Bengal's greatest creative minds — Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray — meet on screen, the result is nothing short of cinematic poetry. Charulata (1964) is more than just an adaptation ...

ISLAMABAD: Where modern films capture the ennui of housewives in scandalous, spectacle-worthy displays, Satyajit Ray’s Charulata (1964), adapted from Rabindranath Tagore novel “Nastanrih”, is muted ...

No director has bridged the gap between the cultures of East and West as convincingly as the Bengali film-maker Satyajit Ray. And no film has done it quite so thoroughly as his 1964 masterpiece, ...

Of all Satyajit Ray’s films, his 1964 domestic drama Charulata (The Lonely Wife) was famously his personal favourite, the only one he would have made the same way again if he’d had the chance. Now, on ...

In 1901, after coming back to Shantiniketan from the tiring experience of running a zamindari in Shilaidaha, Rabindranath Tagore wrote the short story Nashtanirh (The Broken Nest), a love triangle set ...

Best extra: “Adapting Tagore,” a 2013 interview with an Indian film scholar and a historian in HD CRITERION PRESENTS Satyajit Ray’s wonderful interpretation of the great Indian writer Rabindranath ...

Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India, while her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage. However, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law, Amal, to ...

Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861. Thus, he was roughly Manmatha Nath Dutt’s contemporary. There is a 1964 film titled Charulata, directed by Satyajit Ray, which is based on a novella written by ...