Charulata

Charulata is a Bengali film that explores the themes of love, betrayal, and intellectual companionship in Calcutta during Indias British rule, following Charulatas intimate friendship with Bhupatis younger cousin Amal and its abrupt end due to Amals guilt over his role in swindling Bhupati of his money. Charulata is a 1964 Indian Bengali-language Drama Romance film featuring Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Sailen Mukherjee, Syamal Ghosal, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal and Subrata Sensharma. The movie is based on Nastanirh by Rabindranath Tagore. R. D. Bansal & Co. was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) R. D. Bansal. Charulata is written by Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray and it is directed by Satyajit Ray. Edward Harrison acquired the distribution rights for the film. Charulata was released on 17th April 1964 and takes a screen time of 117 minutes. The screenplay for the movie was written by Satyajit Ray. Cinematography was done by Subrata Mitra. The music was composed by National Award winner Satyajit Ray. At the 1965 Berlin International Film Festival It won an award for Best Director.