{"id":16790,"date":"2024-09-24T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2024-09-23T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:08:32","slug":"the-music-room-1958-satyajit-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16790","title":{"rendered":"The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movie about an unemployed homeowner who burns through his savings to watch live music &#8211; I cannot relate.  Spends a fortune inviting musicians to play living room shows, and throwing parties to one-up the neighbors.  Insists his family come back from an overseas trip to attend, then they die in a cyclone, so he spends four years in mourning\/seclusion.  When neighbor Gangapada Basu comes to invite him to a show at his own house, our guy Roy (Chhabi Biswas, also of <em>Devi<\/em>) suddenly reopens his own house, hires away the neighbor&#8217;s musician and steals his party.  Roy gets to gloat one last time with the remains of his fortune, then having lived the dream, dies suddenly.<\/p>\n<p><em>The song and dance scenes are especially good &#8211; here&#8217;s beardy Ujir Khan guy getting jazzy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/musicroom1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Roy smoking with the neighbor on his last day alive:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/musicroom2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie about an unemployed homeowner who burns through his savings to watch live music &#8211; I cannot relate. Spends a fortune inviting musicians to play living room shows, and throwing parties to one-up the neighbors. Insists his family come back from an overseas trip to attend, then they die in a cyclone, so he spends [&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":[342,113,2258,114],"class_list":["post-16790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-india","tag-live-music","tag-satyajit-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790","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=16790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16811,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16790\/revisions\/16811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}