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  The Lonely Wife

Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time Bhupati's own brother, Amal, a would-be writer comes home finishing his college education. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship.

114 Minutes

Rabindranath Tagore (from the story Nastaneer )
Satyajit Ray (scenario)

Satyajit Ray

Soumitra Chatterjee....Amal
Madhabi Mukherjee....Charulata
Shailen Mukherjee....Bhupati Dutta (as Sailen Mukherjee)
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Tarapada Basu
Gopaldas Bhattacharya
Dilip Bose....Shashanka
Ramesh Chandra Chandra
Sunilkanta Dasgupta
Nilotpal Dey....Joydeb
Bankim Ghosh....Jagannath
Shyamal Ghoshal....Umapada
Ajit Gupta
Bholanath Koyal....Braja
Kamu Mukherjee
Suku Mukherjee....Nishikanta

very mild bad language, emotional intensity

Genres

Drama, Romance

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