The Big City
After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
- 7.8
- 1963
- Released
- 2h 16m
Madhabi Mukherjee
Arati Mazumdar
Anil Chatterjee
Subrata Mazumdar
Haren Chatterjee
Priyogopal Mazumdar
Haradhan Bandyopadhyay
Himangshu Mukherjee
Vicky Redwood
Edith Simmons
Jaya Bachchan
Bani Mazumdar
Sefalika Devi
Sarojini Mazumdar
Prasenjit Sarkar
Pintu Mazumdar
Shyamal Ghoshal
Anupam
Gitali Roy
Anupam's Wife
Tapan Chatterjee
Subrata's Colleague
Manisha Chakraborty
Arun Chowdhury
Pritish Dey
Shailen Ganguli
Anuradha Guha
Jyoti Kripalani
Samir Lahiri
Ashok Mitra
Tarak Mitra
Shailen Mukherjee
Shailesh Mukherjee
Shila Pal
Smita Sinha
Released
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- #husband wife relationship
- #mother-in-law
- #money
- #calcutta
- #lipstick
- #new job
- #parent-in-law child-in-law relationship
- #working woman
- #salesgirl
- #family disapproval
- #understated
- #compassionate
- #earnest
- #melodramatic
Reviews
<b>Rating: 9.5 / 10</b> <blockquote> <i>"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."</i> <br><br> — Milton Berle </blockquote> Owing to a banking failure typical of the post-independence India, Subrata(Anil Chatterjee) loses his job and must reconcile with the shortcomings of the situation, his insecurities as his wife Arati(Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes the sole breadwinner of the family.