An Essay on Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar

Mahanagar: A case study in a form of a video essay about a uniquely strong female character in Indian cinema.
Satyajit Ray's 1963 movie Mahanagar - The Big City has Arati who rediscovers herself after she starts working.
More on Mahanagar:
www.satyajitray.org/films/maha...
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www.satyajitray.org/about_ray/...
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[@AboutOurTime]

Can you recommend more movies with a well written female character? Also, please like, share and subscribe!

[@RGVPT323]

Watch "arth the meaning'' by Mahesh Bhatt and Mirch Masala by Ketan Mehta..

[@amidishamondal]

"The Japanese Wife" by Aparna Sen "Chokher Bali "( A Passion Play) by Rituparno Ghosh "Tarikh; A Timeline" by Churni Ganguli

[@debjyotimandal4927]

Meghe Dhaka Tara BY Ritwik Ghatak

[@ro-adproductions4655]

You can check out "Charulata" which is also by Ray. Provides a beautiful insight into a house wife's mind whose husband is busy with his own work.

[@AyushPramanik]

As an ardent admirer of World Cinema from Bengal, I loved every bit of your commentary on Mahanagar.

[@DeepakBibyanRorschach1729]

Never have I ever dropped watching a video essay to watch the movie first and then came back to watching the video. Please don't stop

[@abhisheksrivastava5014]

It's sad! 90 percent of Indians don't know about satyjeet Ray 😔

[@adelaster]

This movie blew me away. From the opening shot to the final frame - definitely one of the standout films I will see in my lifetime.

[@souvikdas]

Blew me away by how bad it was. Terrible movie!

[@akk92278]

@@souvikdas go and watch radhe

[@ShivaShankar-zn5zp]

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[@mohanbhojwani8122]

One of the finest coming as it does from the greatest of them all, Satyajit Roy . Lead players as also all supporting cast are excellent. Madhavi is just outstanding. Thanks for uploading. .

[@humanpraty]

Wonderful analysis! I need to get into Satyajit Ray's movies. Thanks!

[@srqaw]

Very good video :) thank you for making this!

[@Rupadarshi-Ray]

I keep watching this again and again! Please, Make more essays like this! Do try the Calcutta Trilogy and the Feluda series!😊

[@AboutOurTime]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. I'll be doing more Ray soon enough :)

[@Rupadarshi-Ray]

Owwa!💚

[@Fenifilms118]

This is by far my most Fav Ray film🖤

[@Rupadarshi-Ray]

Ray Film is always a love!

[@musahyder11]

watched it last week....beautiful movie,beautiful story...

[@shethewriter]

Really interesting

[@antuchowdhury8192]

Love your research, and love the narration. (btw are you Indian/bengali?)

[@mamankad61]

where do i get Mahanagar movie with English Subtitles? youtube does not have one with English subtitles.

[@akaplise8952]

Fun fact: that young college girl 00:58 was jaya bhaduri..

[@debjyotimandal4927]

Very impressive essay! ❤👍 The story was by Narendranath Mitra, one of the greatest Bengali short story writer..who was a kind of specialist on middle class of Calcutta. Class habits, norms, aspirations ect have to be understood through works of such masters.

[@adrijachatterjee3536]

Great analysis of the movie. Being a Bengali myself, your Bengali pronunciations aren't that bad 😁