Not RatedThe Big City

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Play Time: 136 mins
Drama
The Big City

Overview:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.

Original Title:মহানগর
Status: Released (1963-09-27)
Awards:4 wins & 1 nomination
Screen:Narendranath Mitra, Satyajit Ray
Productions: R.D. Bansal & Co.
Production Countries: India
Spoken Languages: বাংলা, English
The Big City
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Sayantan Chatterjee

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<b>Rating: 9.5 / 10</b> <blockquote> <i>"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."</i> <br><br> — Milton Berle </blockquote> Owing to a banking failure typical of the post-independence India, Subrata(Anil Chatterjee) loses his job and must reconcile with the shortcomings ....

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