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"Jalsaghar"
(The Music Room)
1958
Directed by Satyajit Ray

Ray's Chekhovian story of Bishamber Rai, an aging, proud, Indian nobleman who undergoes a slow decline after he, to spite his ambitious businessman neighbor, decides to present a lavish musical fete. "The hero is great because he destroys himself; he is also mad….worrying over its faults as a film is like worrying over whether King Lear is well constructed; it really doesn't matter" (Pauline Kael). With Chabi Biswas, Ganga Pada Basu, Kali Sarkhar and Padma Devi. Bengali with English subtitles.
100 minutes.