The Big City 1963 123movies

Watch: মহানগর 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – Calcutta in the early 1960’s. Bhambal supports his wife, his parents, his teenage sister, and his young son. Money is tight, so his wife Arati goes to work. She’s successful and enjoys it, but this nontraditional step throws the household into chaos: her in-laws initiate a “cold war” of silence and disapproval. When Bhambal loses his job, her working is essential; he loses self respect, and the gulf between them widens. At work, her friendship with Edith, a Anglo-Indian who smokes, swears, and uses lipstick, brings Arati close to impertinence with her genial boss. Her job is in peril, she acts impulsively, and who will understand her actions?.
Plot: Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
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Exceptional
If, at some point in the future, Pather Panchali cannot fulfil its duties as Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece, Mahanagar can step up and fill in the position. Or perhaps the two films can co-rule, as they compliment each other so nicely. Pather Panchali is the simple, straightforward masterpiece and Mahanagar is the more ambitious and complex work. The first is Ray’s La Strada and the second his La Dolce Vita.

The Big City is a subtle, flowing work about a young housewife (Madhabi Mukherjee, who would also star in Ray’s Charulata) in a middle-class family who finds a job when her father-in-law needs a new pair of spectacles. The family is very conservative, and this upsets everyone. Her husband’s manhood is somewhat insulted, her father- and mother-in-law (who both live with the married couple in a rather small apartment) feel that it’s just not right, and her son thinks he’s been forgotten. The only one who supports her is her younger sister-in-law; she sees her as a role model. The husband (Anil Chatterjee) tries to get her to quit, but, when he loses his own job, he changes his mind quickly. Now she becomes the breadwinner, and he is effectively castrated.

This could have been a little, humble film, like many of Ray’s works. But here he decides to examine a huge portion of his own culture, setting up many opposites and studying them closely. We have the husband and wife, man and woman, old-world conservatism and new-world progression, young and old, employer and employee. The list goes on. The depth of this film is nearly endless, and I’m sure it would hold up to any number of repeated viewings. The only flaw that I can see is a somewhat contrived climax – Ray had this problem in a few of his films.

I do have to give special praise to the two leads. Mukherjee and Chatterjee are just brilliant in the film. The supporting cast is also uniformly excellent.

A delightful, sophisticated work of art from Satyajit Ray
I watched the “Sony Classics” version of this movie (restored by Merchant-Ivory) yesterday, 03/31/02, here in DC as part of the complete Satyajit Ray retrospective organized by the Smithsonian Museum where the series is attracting a full house. I had watched this movie once before and liked it a lot, but this time, I am literally floating in the clouds.

This vintage, mellow Ray masterpiece, showing vulnerable human beings pitted against an unpredictable outside world is unbelievably authentic, and soooo heartwarming without a trace of melodrama. No one seems to be “acting” – and nearly 40 years after it was made, the way Ray has gone about women’s issues in this movie is sure to keep researchers and academicians busy for quite some time to come.

In an era when working women in Calcutta (and perhaps many other places in the world) sometimes invited snide implications of inadequate income against their husbands, a very naive and unsure Arati grapples with her first job, but is also excited by it. Her in-laws, living in the same, cramped house, however, look askance at their son (her husband) for letting her work, and try to scorn him by starting a silently emotional and undeclared “cold war”. Though the husband attempts to obtain an additional part-time job, and convinces Arati to resign, he suddenly loses his main job and manages to contact his wife just in time to stop her from submitting the resignation letter.

There follows the inevitable feeling of worthlessness and depression for him – a man living off his wife’s income, but Subrata, the husband goes through it all with dignity despite the occasional sarcasm and testiness.

It is difficult to say who has performed the best – the husband, the wife, their children, the husband’s parents or the boss at the office. The tenderness and sensitivity portrayed amidst all the tension brings out the eternal humanist in Ray. Even the smug, authoritarian boss, who is gracious to Arati, but is prejudiced against her colleague Edith, warms up to Arati’s recently unemployed husband, reveals a weakness for their common home town, and attempts to find him a job. Edith – who herself is struggling to make ends meet, quietly strikes a friendship with small gestures towards Arati, who later stands up for her friend against the boss with grave personal consequences. In spite of the movie having anything but a happy end, the unmistakable and wonderful optimism that somehow breaks through at the end is infectious.

This film brought forth a spontaneous, standing ovation from a full house of 525 at the National Gallery of Art, and considering the fact that to more than 70 per cent of the audience, this was a “foreign” movie accessible only through the subtitles, the universal appeal of this film was very obvious.

Other Information:

Original Language bn
Runtime 2 hr 16 min (136 min), 2 hr 11 min (131 min) (India), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (USA), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (25 fps) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Satyajit Ray
Writer Narendranath Mitra, Satyajit Ray
Actors Anil Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan
Country India
Awards 4 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,653 m (14 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm