Big City (ej svensk text) (Blu-ray)

Set in the mid '50s, Ray’s often humorous story of conflicting social values in India’s lower-middle class stars Madhabi Mukherjee as housewife Arati Mazumdar. Finding it difficult to make ends meet on her husband's salary alone, Arati takes up a job as a sales woman and finds that she revels in her new-found freedom. But Arati's independence and burgeoning confidence alarms her traditionalist family and threatens to throw her life into chaos... Restored from the original negative for its fiftieth anniversary and presented in high definition for the first time, THE BIG CITY presents a fascinating portrait of India in the years following Independence that still resonates today.