Big City Blu-ray

'The Big City' + 'The Coward' Director: Satyajit Ray (1963 + 1965) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | 2K restoration | Bengali w/ English subtitles

The great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, 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.

Special features include:
- Interview with actor Madhabi Mukherjee
- Interview with Ray scholar Suranjan Ganguly
- The Coward (Kapurush, 1965), a short feature by Ray that also addresses modern female identity and stars Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee
- Satyajit Ray (1974), a documentary short by B. D. Garga
- Essay by scholar Chandak Sengoopta and a 1980s interview with Ray by his biographer Andrew Robinson