{"id":15828,"date":"2023-08-15T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15828"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:20:58","slug":"mahanagar-the-big-city-1963-satyajit-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15828","title":{"rendered":"Mahanagar\/The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madhabi &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9197\">Charulata<\/a>&#8221; Mukherjee is the wife of banker Anil Chatterjee (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7547\">The Cloud-Capped Star<\/a><\/em>).  They&#8217;re barely making ends meet, supporting kids and parents, so she gets a sales job.  Grandpa would rather guilt his former students into buying him favors than accept lady-money, but after Anil&#8217;s bank goes under, Madhabi gets promoted and becomes the sole breadwinner.  Without anything to do all day, Anil suspiciously follows his wife around.  Ultimately she&#8217;s too principled to be a capitalist, and quits in solidarity with one of her coworkers.  An obvious sort of social issues drama, but with a very excellent performance by Mukherjee at its center.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/bigcity1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Written as a follow-up to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/478\">Pather Panchali<\/a><\/em> (and set in 1954) but not produced for eight more years.<\/p>\n<p>Chandak Sengoopta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/2871-the-big-city-a-womans-place\">for Criterion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Big City<\/em> was awarded the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival in 1964, but it was at a festival nearer home that it had its greatest impact. When screened during a 1964 international film season in Dhaka (the capital of Bengali-speaking East Pakistan, now Bangladesh), enormous crowds, including thousands of women, queued for tickets for the three scheduled shows. The lack of seats precipitated a mini riot, and after more than a hundred people were beaten up by the police, the festival organizers were forced to schedule ten extra shows, running consecutively over twenty-four hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/bigcity2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhabi &#8220;Charulata&#8221; Mukherjee is the wife of banker Anil Chatterjee (The Cloud-Capped Star). They&#8217;re barely making ends meet, supporting kids and parents, so she gets a sales job. Grandpa would rather guilt his former students into buying him favors than accept lady-money, but after Anil&#8217;s bank goes under, Madhabi gets promoted and becomes the sole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,113,114],"class_list":["post-15828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-india","tag-satyajit-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15828\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}