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Mahanagar (The Big City)
| Year | 1963 |
|---|---|
| Producer | R. D. Bansal & Co. |
| Distributor | R. D. Bansal & Co. |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | The short story Abataranika by Narendranath Mitra |
| Photography | Subrata Mitra |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Bansi Chandragupta |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Debesh Ghosh, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar |
| Length | 131 min. |
| Black & White |
Cast:
| Subrata Mazumdar | Anil Chatterjee |
|---|---|
| Arati Mazumdar | Madhabi Mukherjee |
| Bani | Jaya Badhuri |
| Pintu | Prasenjit Sarkar |
| Priyagopal | Haren Chatterjee |
| Sarojini | Sefalika Devi |
| Himangsu Mukherjee | Haradhan Banerjee |
| Edith Simmons | Vicky Redwood |
Subrata Mazumdar, an unassuming employee of a bank in Calcutta, has problems providing for the needs of his family. Against established custom and the reproofs of her father-in-law, a retired professor, his wife Arati looks for a job. She finds work selling sewing machines door-to-door. When she proves successful in her work and gains untraditional self-confidence, her husband is unable to accept the situation and would love for her to quit. As the result of a crisis at the bank, however, he loses his job and his wife's work becomes even more essential. Arati establishes a friendship with a colleague, an Anglo-Indian woman, and takes her side when she is unjustly punished by their boss. On the strength of her convictions, Arati is willing to sacrifice her own job and her family's needs as an expression of solidarity with her friend. The film ends with a more equal re-alignment of the relationship between Arati and her husband.
The original negative of this film was lost in a fire.
