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Mahanagar (The Big City) Series: First Light : Satyajit Ray from the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy [2009] Director: Satyajit Ray, Country: India, Release: 1963, Runtime: 122 Banker Subrata Mazumdar and his wife Arati (the terrific Madhabi Mukherjee in her first Ray film) are struggling to provide for their large extended family. Breaking established custom, Arati goes to work, selling sewing machines and discovering a new world on her doorstep. “Satyajit Ray has turned out a completely realistic, contemporary masterpiece,” says the second New York Film Festival program for this Berlin best director winner. “The humor [that] always trembled beneath the surface has now really broken through. Of course, as in Chekhov, the laughter is often close to tears, and the story of a young wife…is both moving and hilarious.” This film was preserved by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive. Print courtesy of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at the Academy Film Archive.

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