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The Big City

The Big City

7.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

102

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1963

Release Year

136 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

Arati takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman in Calcutta's wealthy neighbourhoods, in defiance of her traditionally-minded husband, Subrata, and his live-in parents. Emulating her Anglo-Indian friend Edith, who speaks equal to the men she encounters on the job, Arati quickly becomes her firm's top salesperson. When Subrata loses his job, the power dynamic begins to shift.

Keywords

husband wife relationship
mother-in-law
money
calcutta
lipstick
new job
parent-in-law child-in-law relationship
working woman
salesgirl
family disapproval
understated
compassionate
earnest
melodramatic

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Sayantan Chatterjee

Sayantan Chatterjee

@thisissayantan

July 9, 2018

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10/10

<b>Rating: 9.5 / 10</b> <blockquote> <i>"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."</i> <br><br> — Milton Berle </blockquote> Owing to a banking failure typical of the post-independence India, Subrata(Anil Chatterjee) loses his job and must reconcile with the shortcomings of the situatio

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