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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]

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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]

The Big City (1963)
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.

The Music Room (1958) [The Criterion Collection]

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The Music Room (1958) [The Criterion Collection]

The Music Room (1958)
A wealthy landlord lives a decadent life with his wife and son. His passion – his wife would calls it his addiction – is music, and he spends a great deal of his fortune on concerts held for the locals in his magnificent music room. He feels threatened by his neighbour, a commoner who has attained riches through business dealings. His passion for music and quest for social respect are his undoing, as he sacrifices his family and wealth trying to retain it.

Charulata (1964) [Criterion Collection]

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Charulata (1964) [Criterion Collection]

Charulata (1964)
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results.

The Apu Trilogy. The World of Apu / Apur Sansar (1959)

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The Apu Trilogy. The World of Apu / Apur Sansar (1959)

Apur Sansar (1959)
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding...

Charulata (1964) [Criterion Collection]

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Charulata (1964) [Criterion Collection]

Charulata (1964) [Criterion Collection, Spine #669]
DVDRip | MKV | AVC 720x480, ~ 2.0 Mbps | 1hr 59mn | 2.0 GB
Bengali: AC3, 1 ch, 384 kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance | Director: Satyajit Ray

The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.

The Apu Trilogy. The Unvanquished / Aparajito (1956)

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The Apu Trilogy. The Unvanquished / Aparajito (1956)

Aparajito (1956)
Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu.

The Unvanquished (1956) Aparajito [The Criterion Collection]

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The Unvanquished (1956) Aparajito [The Criterion Collection]

The Unvanquished (1956)
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Audio: Bengali AAC 2.0 @ 88 Kbps | Subtitles: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama

After living awhile in Benares, 10 year old Apu and his mother move in with her uncle in a small Bengali village. Apu enters a local school, where he does well. By the time he graduates, he has a scholarship to study at a college in Calcutta. So off he goes. His mother is torn by his leaving, and by his growing independence. She loves her son very much and wants him to succeed, but she does not want to be left alone.

The Home and the World (1984) Ghare-Baire

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The Home and the World (1984) Ghare-Baire

The Home and the World (1985)
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Song of the Little Road (1955) Pather Panchali

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Song of the Little Road (1955) Pather Panchali

Pather Panchali (1955)
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

Pather Panchali (1955) + Extras [The Criterion Collection]

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Pather Panchali (1955) + Extras [The Criterion Collection]

Pather Panchali (1955) + Extras
BDRip 720p | MKV | 1280 x 720 | x264 @ 2560 Kbps | 1h 5mn | 2,65 Gb + 1,06 Gb
Audio: Bengali AC3 1.0 @ 448 Kbps | Subtitles: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama | Director: Satyajit Ray

With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir – vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.

The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

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The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

Devi (1960)
The life of a woman happily married to the son of an upper-class family in 19th century Bengal is turned upside down when her father-in-law has a vision that she is the Goddess Kali returned to earth. He convinces her to fulfill her role as a living deity and transform her house into a temple.

The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

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The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1102]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1480x1080, ~ 3.8 Mbps | 1hr 39mn | 2.95 GB | Bengali: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | Director: Satyajit Ray

Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In rural India in the second half of the nineteenth century, after his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy feudal landlord (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of the Mother Goddess—a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The elegantly stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering.

The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

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The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection]

The Goddess / Devi (1960) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1102]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 988x720, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 39mn | 1.98 GB | Bengali: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | Director: Satyajit Ray

Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In rural India in the second half of the nineteenth century, after his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy feudal landlord (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore) is an incarnation of the Mother Goddess—a delusion that proves devastating to the young woman and those around her. The elegantly stylized compositions and the chiaroscuro lighting by cinematographer Subrata Mitra heighten the expressionistic intensity of this domestic tragedy, making for an experience that is both sublime and shattering.

Distant Thunder (1973) Ashani Sanket

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Distant Thunder (1973) Ashani Sanket

Distant Thunder (1973)
Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying over the countryside), and a major famine is under way. As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.

The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]

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The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection]

The Big City / Mahanagar (1963) [Criterion Collection, Spine #668]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1436x1080, ~ 3.7 Mbps | 2hr 16mn | 3.97 GB | Bengali: AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 956x720, ~ 2.5 Mbps | 2hr 16mn | 2.64 GB | Bengali: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | Director: Satyajit Ray

The Big City, the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the modern Indian woman.