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Charulata চারুলতা / The Lonely Wife (1964)

Her cries transcend Amal and touch on the plight of anyone condemned to a place prescribed to them by an age-old patriarchy. The world is rigid but feelings are organic, and only a filmmaker tapped into the emotionally revealing possibilities of the medium could have told Charulata in such a masterfully nuanced manner. Aided by flawless performances from Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Sailen Mukherjee, a script (written by Ray) that delicately turns and builds on itself, music (composed by Ray), layered in motifs across the film, and, of course, Subrata Mitra’s heaven-lit cinematography, the film becomes a profoundly enriching experience. Though Charulata has been obscured in the Ray canon by a certain trilogy made at the outset of his career, it remains a singularly accomplished song to love, idealism, heartbreak and disillusionment.  

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