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Charulata

  • 1964
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 57m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
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Charulata (1964)
DramaRomance

The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.

  • Director
    • Satyajit Ray
  • Writers
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Satyajit Ray
  • Stars
    • Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Madhavi Mukherjee
    • Shailen Mukherjee
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    • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    7.4K
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    • Director
      • Satyajit Ray
    • Writers
      • Rabindranath Tagore
      • Satyajit Ray
    • Stars
      • Soumitra Chatterjee
      • Madhavi Mukherjee
      • Shailen Mukherjee
    • 43User reviews
    • 67Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 2 nominations

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    Soumitra Chatterjee
    Soumitra Chatterjee
    • Amal…
    Madhavi Mukherjee
    Madhavi Mukherjee
    • Charulata
    • (as Madhabi Mukherjee)
    • …
    Shailen Mukherjee
    • Bhupati
    • (as Sailen Mukherjee)
    • …
    Shyamal Ghoshal
    Shyamal Ghoshal
    • Umapada…
    Gitali Roy
    • Mandakini…
    Dilip Bose
    • Shashanka
    Nilotpal Dey
    • Joydeb
    Bankim Ghosh
    • Jagannath
    Bholanath Koyal
    • Braja
    Kamu Mukherjee
    • Fellow Liberal at the Party
    Suku Mukherjee
    • Nishikanta
    Subrata Sensharma
    • Motilal
    • (as Subrata Sen)
    Tarapada Basu
    Gopaldas Bhattacharya
    Ramesh Chandra Chandra
    Sunilkanta Dasgupta
    Ajit Gupta
    Prabhat Sarkar
    • Director
      • Satyajit Ray
    • Writers
      • Rabindranath Tagore
      • Satyajit Ray
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    • Trivia
      Ray once called Charulata his favorite of his own films.
    • Goofs
      when Bhupati shows Amal his weekly newspaper 'The Sentinel', it can be seen that it is published every Saturday and the date shown is 7 April 1879 but actually 7 April 1879 was Monday.
    • Quotes

      Amal: All done with studies, exams, professors, cutting classes.

      Charulata: What's left? Foolishness and mischief?

      Amal: Poetry. Rhythm. You know, I was thinking.

      Charulata: What?

      Amal: All of life is like a rhythm. Birth, death. Day - night. Happiness - sorrow. Meeting - parting. Like the waves on the ocean, now rising - now falling. One complements the other.

    • Alternate versions
      There is an Italian edition of this film on DVD (Extra Movie in "IL LAMENTO SUL SENTIERO"), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
    • Connections
      Featured in Strange Birds (2017)
    • Soundtracks
      God Save The Queen
      (uncredited)
      Music by Thomas Augustine Arne
      Played on the Piano by Amol (Kumar Basu)

    User reviews43

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    10/10

    The most perfect Ray movie

    Charulata is Satyajit Ray's masterpiece. No other movie is so brilliantly subtle, so timeless in quality. Indeed, Ray himself described Charulata as the only flawless movie he had directed.

    Like the Apu trilogy, and many other Ray movies, Charulata deals with universal themes. Unlike the Apu trilogy, Charulata is set in an urbane, intellectual setting. This might be a turn off for some foreign viewers. When it was released in India in 1964, it was deemed controversial because of its depiction of an extramarital relationship. Yet no movie Ray made, not even the celebrated Apu trilogy, treats the themes of love, growth and loyalty with as much insight and sensitivity as Charulata.

    Every scene in this movie is a gem, there are nuances in every movement, poetry in each look. Richly deserving multiple viewing, Charulata is the most perfect Ray movie.
    • abhishek-saha
    • Mar 7, 2005
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1964 (India)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
      • Satyajit Ray (India)
    • Languages
      • Bengali
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Charulata: The Lonely Wife
    • Production company
      • R.D.Banshal & Co.
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $77,820
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 57 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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