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	Satyajit Ray
		Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), or "Charu" as she is affectionately called, lives the privileged life of the Bengali upper class in the late nineteenth century.
		Charulata is an exquisitely shot, sublimely haunting, and emotionally complex film on the nature of human relationships.
		In the remarkable final shot (inspired by Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows) of Bhupati and Charulata's hands frozen in mid grasp, the words "The Ruined Nest" appear: the title of Rabindranath Tagore's short novel on which the film was based.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/ray.html (4483 words)

	Charulata (The Lonely Wife): A film by Satyajit Ray :: SatyajitRay.org
		Charulata is based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore, Nastanirh (The broken Nest) and set in Calcutta in the late nineteenth century.
		He realizes that Charulata is in love with him but is reluctant to reciprocate due to the guilt involved.
		In Charulata as in Ghare Baire (The Home and the World, 1984), Satyajit Ray explores the emergence of the modern woman in the upper-class of colonial India.
	www.satyajitray.org /films/charu.htm (1058 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Charulata at Epinions.com
		Charulata, or “The Lonely Wife”, was the twelfth film for renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray and the film is often regarded as his greatest one.
		Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), called “Charu” by her intimates, belongs to the Bengali upper class, leading a life of idle privilege.
		Charulata is distraught at the thought of Amal leaving but must carefully hide these feelings lest she pain her husband with the revelation of her attachment to Amal.
	www.epinions.com /content_129467387524 (1603 words)

	Charulata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Charulata is the most successful film of a group Satyajit Ray made in the mid-1960s with the actress Madhabi Mukherjee.
		Charulata, one of Ray's undoubted masterpieces, is adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore and set in a period of particular significance to the director: the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
		Charulata, the sensitive but bored wife of a westernized newspaper publisher finds herself drawn sexually to her husband's young cousin who comes to stay and shares her taste for literature.
	www.filmreference.com /Films-Ca-Chr/Charulata.html (1034 words)

	Tributes
		Regarded as Ray's most accomplished film, Charulata is based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore, doyen of Indian writers and a great influence on Ray, who studied painting at Tagore's university, Shantiniketan.
		Charulata is married to Bhupati Dutt, a wealthy intellectual who edits and publishes an English-language weekly paper.
		She is trapped by tradition, enclosed within the shuttered rooms of her husband's house, apparently acquiescent in her role of the compliant wife who wants nothing from life but her husband's happiness.
	satyajitray.tripod.com /wtribute.html (926 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Charulata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Charulata's single setting allowed him a chance to work in an entirely controlled environment—a far cry from the jungly countryside of Pather Panchali, the clamorous ghats of Aparajito, and the urban milieus of many of his subsequent films.
		Charulata was also the filmmaker's second adaptation of a Rabindranath Tagore work (after 1961's Teen Kanya) and, indeed, one senses a close affinity between Ray's cinema and Tagore's literature.
		Though Charulata has been obscured in the Ray canon by a certain trilogy made at the outset of his career, it remains a singularly accomplished song to love, idealism, heartbreak and disillusionment.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1080 (1336 words)

	Review on Charulata - Movie by sheermelody on MouthShut.com
		Charulata is the story of a wealthy Bengali landowner, Bhupathi Majumdar, his wife Charulata, younger than him, lonely, sensitive, literary, and his carefree college-going cousin Amal, carefree, and tomboyish, who comes to stay in their household.
		Charulata pines, in loneliness and in frustration, becomes whimsical and yearns for the little joys of a satisfying married life.
		Amal, suddenly realizes that Charulata is indeed in love with him, and in an effort to not cause his brother any more pain than he had already faced, leaves the house to eke out a living for himself.
	mouthshut.com /review/Charulata-115509-1.html (947 words)

	IndiaStar: Satyajit Ray's "Charulata" and Tagore's "Nashtanir" by Kaustuv Sen
		Ray believed that the 1964 Berlin Prize-winning Charulata was the film in which he had made the least mistakes, and the turn-of-the-century Nashtanir (The Broken Nest) is a barely disguised autobiographical and intimate account of the triangular affections between Tagore, his elder brother Jatirindranath and Jatirindranath's wife, Kadambari Devi.
		It is only in the character of Charulata that the two antagonistic forces are harmoniously reconciled, and that East and West meet.
		Charulata's story, as with India's history, must remain incomplete, ending in suspended animation.
	www.indiastar.com /KaustuvSen.html (3680 words)

	Amazon.com: Charulata: Video: Soumitra Chatterjee,Madhabi Mukherjee,Shailen Mukherjee,Shyamal Ghoshal,Gitali ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Charulata, his wife, is imaginative, young and lonely in a loving through unexpressive marriage.
		Charulata is crushed by Amol's departure and inadvertently betrays her emotions to Bhupati.
		This is the strongest metaphor of Charulata's yearning for Amol.
	www.amazon.com /Charulata-Soumitra-Chatterjee/dp/6304587384 (2398 words)

	Charulata (The Lonely Wife) - Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection, UCSC
		When his young cousin (the relationship is considered to be equivalent to Charu's brother-in-law) Amal, comes to live with them, Bhupati asks him to encourage her cultural interests, but in such a way that she remains unaware of her husband's intervention in setting up their encounter.
		An increasingly intimate relationship develops between Charulata and Amal: one based on complicity, friendship, writing, and eventually love.
		All he has left is the trust he has placed in Charulata and Amal, which has been compromised by their feelings for each other.
	satyajitray.ucsc.edu /films/charulata.html (180 words)

	Satyajit Ray's Charulata - The Lonley Wife DVD Review
		Based on a short story by Tagore, it is a surprisingly modern tale of love, lust, fidelity, and a woman's growing self-awareness against the backdrop of the Bengal Renaissance, a vibrant intellectual awakening in 19th-century India.
		Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), the childless wife of a wealthy Bengali intellectual, lives in seclusion in her spacious and ornate home in Calcutta, while winds of change are blowing away the cobwebs outside.
		CHARULATA has the quality of a miniature painting, where minute details are revealed by a stroke of the finest brush, and the unspoken is made visual by a mere suggestion.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews22/charulata_dvd_review.htm (515 words)

	Jabberwock: Notes on Ray films 2: Charulata
		The breaking of the storm: the room darkening as Charu lies on her bed, the frenetic activity as the women hurry to get the clothes off the clothesline, the camera swirling about madly, and alll of this culminating in Amol’s (Soumitra Chatterjee) great entrance, posturing as "Krishna, slayer of demons".
		i loved charulata when i saw it, and have seen it several times, and it really haunted me, but i have to say the one which really amazed me with its near perfection was 'mahanagar'.
		I watched both 'Pather Panchali' and 'Charulata' at a Delhi film fest recently, and though am no film critic myself, it was 'Charulata' which had me rivetted from the start.
	jaiarjun.blogspot.com /2005/07/notes-on-ray-films-2-charulata.html (2100 words)

	Charulata: The Intimacies of a Broken Nest
		In 1966, following the critical success of Charulata, Ray wrote that he had chosen for himself “the field of intimate cinema… of mood and atmosphere rather than of grandeur and spectacle” (2).
		However, in Charulata there is evidence of a cinema born out of the exquisite love affair between intimacy and spectacle – and not spectacle in the “Indiana Jones” sense of the word, but an Ophulsian cinematic spectacle.
		Charulata belongs to that venerable category of films that unabashedly display their complexities, and are readily regarded as “exemplary” because of the delightful struggle involved in talking or writing about them.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/04/charulata.html (1283 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Charulata Film Notes
		This time the man who made the memorable Apu trilogy is delineating an emotional marital triangle that develops in a comfortable Bengali household...
		Below is the response of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and one of the foremost writers of contemporary English fiction:
		He always wrote his own scripts (as well as directing them and composing his own original score!); and his greatest films were all adaptations of favorite novels and stories, including Charulata, which was based on a novella by Tagore.
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/fns98n13.html (500 words)

	Charulata
		Amal does, but through their subtle interplay charulata comes to feel deeply for Amal.
		So as not to injure his brother, Amal leaves unexpectedly, Bhupati, however, catches charulata crying over Amal and is shocked and sorrowful.
		At one point Amal admits to charulata that a “woman’s mind can only be understood by men”, but when she ironically publishes a short story on her own and without his knowledge.
	www.rdborganization.com /rdb/charulata.html (155 words)

	Planet Bollywood: Film Review: Charulata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Charulata is a story of a lonely wife (Madhabi Mukherjee) married to a publisher who is preoccupied with his political views.
		Her intellectual curiosity and intimacy is roused when her cousin Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee) arrives from college to live with them.
		The first few minutes of the movie lingers on Charulata wandering in her rich house from room to room with no music.
	www.indolink.com /Film/charuLta.html (444 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The year is 1984 and Charulata is a lonely dowager, guarding the decrepit house that once resounded with Amal (Soumitra Chatterjee) roaring Hare murari.
		But Charulata decides to sell it off to a couple from Pondicherry (played by Churni Ganguly and Pulak Lahiri).
		?Charulata is a lonely woman in a modern situation and her relationship with Amal will be reflected through Churni and Badshah,?
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060508/asp/calcutta/story_6197117.asp (466 words)

	Review on Charulata - Movie by RACHITVATS1981 on MouthShut.com
		Charulata is based on a story, The Broken Nest by Rabindranath Tagore.
		There is a scene when Charulata uses her Opera glasses to see the outside world from her affluent house.
		Pick any movies of the present times and compare it with Charulata; or for that matter pick any classic, the difference is quite evident.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Charulata-78987-1.html (876 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Satyajit Ray - 1964 - Charulata Movies Review
		Ray steps back into Indian history for this film, setting Charulata in 1879 Calcutta to explore the seeds of India's early movement for independence from England and to examine the restrictions placed on educated Indian women.
		Silently the camera tracks her initial movements through her wealthy routine existence; she obviously enjoys reading and music and is a keen observer, often using opera glasses to peer through her shutters to view passers by.
		Although Bhupati thinks Amal needs to be practical and agree to an arranged marriage that will allow him to get schooled as a lawyer in England, he sees him as a means to help his wife ease her boredom during his temporary stay.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10006009 (826 words)

	'200 Years of Reality Shows'
		It will be followed by a reception and then a screening of Ray's 1964 film Charulata (Lonely Wife).
		Ray's work is well known for his emphasis on reality and humanity.
		Charulata, which Ray called "my most perfect film," explores politics, passion, and love through the experiences of an upper middle class, western-educated Indian family living in colonial Calcutta.
	www.ucsc.edu /currents/02-03/10-07/realism.html (327 words)

	Writing on the Screen: Satyajit Ray’s Adaptation of Tagore
		Soon after the release of Charulata, Ray became involved in an intense debate over the changes he made in the original text, ‘Nastaneer’ (‘The Broken Nest’), a 1901 story written by Rabindranath Tagore (Ray 1982).
		An eminent critic called into question the very necessity of presenting the film as an adaptation of Tagore, whatever the merits of the film were, after such changes as those that Ray brought into ‘both the theme and the plot’ of the film (Rudra 1996).
		The long introductory sequence of Charulata is probably the best example of the masterly technique of compression and telescoping Ray uses to translate descriptive passages.
	www.ipv.pt /forumedia/5/9.htm (2764 words)

	Translating Between Media: Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray - An article by Clinton B Seely
		A further case in point is Tagore's short story Nastanir (The Fouled Nest, published in 1901) and Ray's translation of it into the film Charulata, completed in 1964, released in 1965.
		It tells of Charulata, a woman in her early twenties who had been married as a child to a husband, Bhupati by name, some ten to fifteen years her senior.
		The final scene in "Charulata," which I won't show to you this evening but which you will no doubt recall if you have seen the film, is a series of still shots with the aggrieved Bhupati returning home and with Charu reaching out, tentatively, to usher him back into the household and into the marriage.
	www.parabaas.com /rabindranath/articles/pClinton1.html (5015 words)

	JSAWS - Vol. 4, No. 1 - Pretty Plant in Arid Soil:Misogyny and Genteel Morality in Satyajit Ray's Charulata
		Like Rabindranath Tagore's novel Nastanir (The Broken Nest), its film version by Satyajit Ray titled Charulata (name of the novella's main character) has been hailed by critics as one of the most outstanding achievements of their creators.
		A leading film-critic of India has even claimed that in Charulata "Ray's understanding of the character is perfect....
		My paper argues that Ray not only distorted the story of Nastanir, he totally and brutally caricatured Bhupati's character, neutered Amal's and marginalized Manda's in order to render the novella filmworthy and reflective of his personal preferences.
	www.asiatica.org /jsaws/vol4_no1/paper2.php (682 words)

	Charulata (1964) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Unlike the Apu trilogy, Charulata is set in an urbane, intellectual setting.
		When it was released in India in 1964, it was deemed controversial because of its depiction of an extramarital relationship.
		Richly deserving multiple viewing, Charulata is the most perfect Ray movie.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0057935 (316 words)

	Cinematography: Camera and Lighting :: SatyajitRay.org
		Mitra also operated the camera until Charulata when Ray himself decided to take over.
		It is this conviction that makes the opening of Charulata so exceptional.
		Ray does not call attention to the camerawork; the cinematography acts on the mind as part of a complete form.
	www.satyajitray.org /filmmaking/cinematography.htm (609 words)

	agencyfaqs! > news & features > Charulata Ravi Kumar to head Bates, Delhi; Atulit Saxena has quit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As Bates maintains an official stance of status-quo in response to the speculated merger of Bates and Enterprise Nexus, a change of guard has taken place at the Delhi branch of Bates India.
		Stepping into Saxena's shoes is Charulata Ravi Kumar, country head of 141 Worldwide, the marketing services company of Bates.
		Kumar will continue to head 141 Worldwide, which she had helped set up in Kolkata, besides executing the national roll-out.
	www.agencyfaqs.com /news/stories/2004/12/08/10416.html (629 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Rituparno Ghosh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In Charulata, the glasses were a window to the open world, whereas in Chokher Bali, they are used voyeuristically.
		The whole sense of restrain in Charulata, in terms of emotions, in terms of everything, is exemplary.
		There was a non-idolatry religion called the Brahmo religion, and Charulata belonged to that period and context.
	www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/ghosh.cfm (3533 words)

	Satyajit Ray
		These include the renowned Apu trilogy (Pather Panchali, Aparajito [1956] and Apur Sansar [1959]), Jalsaghar (1958), Postmaster (1961), Charulata (1964), Days and Nights in the Forest (1969) and Pikoo (1980) along with a host of his lesser known works which themselves stand up as fine examples of story telling.
		Most have agreed however that Charulata is among the very finest.
		After the confident mastery of Charulata, Ray seemed for the rest of the decade to lose his sureness of touch, unable to come satisfactorily to terms either with his material or with the world around him.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/ray.html (3081 words)

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