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Music Room, The Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1958
Director: Satyajit Ray
Genre: Drama
Cast: Chhabi Biswas, Padma Devi, Pinaki Sen Gupta, Gangapada Bose, Tulsi Lahiri, Kali Sarkar, Begum Akhtar, Salamat Ali Khan, Roshan Kumari
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Language: Bengali
Release Date: 2011-07-19
Description
With The Music Room (Jalsaghar), Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years—now a shadow of its former vivid self. An incandescent depiction of the clash between tradition and modernity, and a showcase for some of India’s most popular musicians of the day, The Music Room is a defining work by the great Bengali filmmaker.