Cairo Classics · 45th Edition
The Lonely Wife (Charulata)
CHARULATA
Director
Satyajit Ray
Country
India
Runtime
1 h 59 min
Language
Bengali
Synopsis
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Cast
Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Screenplay
Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray
Producers
R. D. Bansal
About the Director
Satyajit Ray, (1921-1992, Calcutta), Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. As a director, Ray was noted for his humanism, his versatility, and his detailed control over his films and their music.
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