CHARULATA - THE LONELY WIFE

Satyajit RAY - India

Synopsis

Young, rich and intellectual, Bhupati publishes a weekly, The Sentinel, and forgets about his wife Charulata, a sentimental girl of artistic tastes. Noticing her solitude, he asks his cousin Amal, a young, well-read but careless dreamer to help her develop her literary talent. But gradually Charulata is attracted to Amal, and this devastates her.

Film details

Genre : Narrative Feature film
Duration : 117 minutes
Year of production : 1964
Country : India
Casting : Soumitra Chatterjee - Madhabi Mukherjee - Shailen Haradhan Bannerjee - Biplab Chatterjee - Siddharta Mukherjee - Shyamal Ghoshal - Gitali Roy
Screenwriter : Satyajit Ray
Cinematography : Subrata Mitra
Director : Satyajit RAY
Production company : R.D. Bansal and co.






Satyajit Ray was born in 1921 in Calcutta and attended Visva-Bharati University. In 1942 and 44 he founded film clubs in Bombay and Calcutta. He made 37 short, feature and documentary films. Pather Panchali (La Complainte du sentier) won the 1956 Cannes Festival prize for human document. He died in 1992.