Directed by Satyajit Ray
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
The bored housewife of an Indian intellectual and newspaper publisher falls in love with her husband's visiting cousin. He is young, carefree, a poet and musician, who encourages her in her own writing. When another friend of the family causes the newspaper to go under, he is beset by guilt and leaves unexpectedly. Charulata at first hides her grief, but finally breaks down when a letter arrives, not knowing that her husband is watching. A long, tedious melodrama, but impeccably filmed in black and white by cinematographer Subrata Mitra, whose camera is in love with leading lady Madhabi Mukherjee.
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