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New Year Special:Let's start the year with poetry.
As credits roll, the opening shot of Jalsaghar, Satyajit Ray’s study of fading Bengal aristocracy, social self-delusion, and pride, mesmerizes. In a pitch-dark room, only a heavy, ornate, grandiose chandelier is visible. The thing sways, like an erratic pendulum. The camera approaches gradually, until the gleaming fixture fills the screen. A dissolve replaces the image with a tight closeup of the pudgy face of a man, landlord Biswambhar Roy, from which the camera slightly withdraws. He is seated on his terrace. The blankness of his expression suggests eyes that have turned inward—not in contemplation, but nostalgia: Roy gluts on memories of wealth and position.
The Music Room
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.
- Year:
- 1958
- Runtime:
- 100 minutes
- Language:
- Bengali
- Director:
- Satyajit Ray
- Screenwriter:
- Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
- Producer:
- Satyajit Ray
- Cast:
- Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Kali Sarkar
- Cinematographer:
- Subrata Mitra
- Editor:
- Dulal Dutta
- Production Design:
- Bansi Chandragupta
- Composer:
- Ustad Vilayat Khan, Robin Majumdar
This page is to obtain access to the broadcast of this Sands Films Cinema Club presentation
New Year Special:Let's start the year with poetry.
As credits roll, the opening shot of Jalsaghar, Satyajit Ray’s study of fading Bengal aristocracy, social self-delusion, and pride, mesmerizes. In a pitch-dark room, only a heavy, ornate, grandiose chandelier is visible. The thing sways, like an erratic pendulum. The camera approaches gradually, until the gleaming fixture fills the screen. A dissolve replaces the image with a tight closeup of the pudgy face of a man, landlord Biswambhar Roy, from which the camera slightly withdraws. He is seated on his terrace. The blankness of his expression suggests eyes that have turned inward—not in contemplation, but nostalgia: Roy gluts on memories of wealth and position.
The Music Room
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.
- Year:
- 1958
- Runtime:
- 100 minutes
- Language:
- Bengali
- Director:
- Satyajit Ray
- Screenwriter:
- Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
- Producer:
- Satyajit Ray
- Cast:
- Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Kali Sarkar
- Cinematographer:
- Subrata Mitra
- Editor:
- Dulal Dutta
- Production Design:
- Bansi Chandragupta
- Composer:
- Ustad Vilayat Khan, Robin Majumdar