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• Satyajit Ray Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Satyajit Ray is internationally acknowledged as one of the great masters of world cinema. His films - many of them masterpieces - have won him legions of admirers among them Akira Kurosawa Henri Cartier-Bresson V.S. Naipaul and Martin Scorsese. This box set features the following films: Mahanagar (Aka: The Big City) (1963): Set in the mid '50s Ray's often humorous story of conflicting social values in India's lower-middle class stars Madhabi Mukherjee as a housewife whose growing independence alarms her traditionalist India 1963 family. Charulata (Aka: The Lonely Wife) (1964): Neglected by her ambitious journalist husband the lonely Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) befriends his cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) a sensitive aspiring writer and almost inevitably their feelings for each other begin to deepen. Adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore Ray considered this sesnitively realised drama one of his finest achievements. Nayak (Aka: The Hero) (1966): This beautifully observed character study was one of Ray's earliest original screenplays. En route to an award ceremony a famous and egocentric Bengali movie star finds that he is compelled to re-evaluate his life after encountering a disapproving young journalist (Sharmila Tagore).

• Charulata | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law Umapeda a would-be writer to keep her company. At this point Bhupati's cousin Amal visits and spends a long vacation and after several months Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond friendship.