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02/09/06
Mahanagar (1963)
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Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 5 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Synopsis: When financial liabilities force a traditionally-minded, homebound Indian matriarch to seek work downtown as a saleswoman, she comes to appreciate the opportunity to earn her own money and develop an identity of her own. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Director: Satyajit Ray
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05/24/03
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There is nothing obscure or over-stylized about this characteristic work by Mr. Ray. It is another of his beautifully fashioned and emotionally balanced contemplations of change in the thinking, the customs and the manners of the Indian middle-class.
09/01/07
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Beautiful and restrained, Madhabi Mukherjee powerfully highlights ... as a traditional Bengali housewife who transforms into a modern working woman in 1960's Calcutta
02/18/07
One of the most rewarding screen experiences of our time. I warmly encourage you to see it.
08/29/06
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Interesting portrait of family life in India where a feminist is as rare as a quagga.
08/29/06
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There are so many ways in which Ray is entitled to demand respect that I felt absolutely naughty wanting something to happen quickly.
01/01/00
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