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The 1960s in Film: Mahanagar (1963)

Posted on 25/08/2014 by Anu M

Mahanagar is Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film on a housewife who becomes a working-woman due to circumstances and is a critique of traditional Bengali society as well as a changing middle class India.  I meant this to be a 1960s fashions … Continue reading →

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