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"Nastanirh" (The Broken Nest)
The story takes place in the late 19th century India and tells the tale of a lonely housewife Charu (short for Charulata). Charu and her rather detached, older husband Bhupati live a quiet, well-to-do life. She is a very beautiful woman, with tons of money and all the time in the world to enjoy her passions - the arts, literature and poetry. Yet her workaholic husband seems to be more concerned with his job than his marriage. And alas, she is all alone, ailing from that distasteful disorder of ennui that seemingly plagues so many kept women.
However, the sun shines a bit brighter for our heroine when Bhupati's young, handsome cousin Amal arrives for a visit. Bhupati, who is far from a heartless man and feels sympathy for his wife's cheerless plight, encourages his cousin to befriend his wife as they both have so much in common (he loves poetry and the arts as well). Finally we see Charulata happy, singing, playful, and tending to Amol, mending his clothes and inspiring him to continue writing. Her innocent flirtations catch her off guard as she becomes deeply attached to Amol. Amol also realizes that his emotions are leading him astray. After Bhupati is ruined when his brother in law, whom he trusted and loved, makes off with the newspaper's money, Amol decides to leave, not wanting to take away from Bhupati his "other" wife. Charulata is crushed by Amol's departure and inadvertently betrays her emotions to Bhupati. Bhupati is completely disillusioned by these reversals of trust and love. Their marriage is severed.
http://www.satyajitray.org/films/charu.htm
| Screenplay & Direction: | Satyajit Ray form the short novel "Nastanirh" by Rabindranath Tagore |
Not mine thoughts but read someone's and writing here . Chrulata's husband was older to her many years in the book . But here he does not seems so much older to her . Amal's character start growing on you . I liked the song and music ,seems to be soothing and reminded me the song Bhanwra bada nadan hai from Sahib bibi Aur Ghulam . Tagore brings out the emotions so well in his characters where you have all natural emotions in a person . No particular line when these emotions changes . I felt as if amal was falling in love with her gradually but Charulata is unaware of this ,yes she gets attached to him as both of them have same interests where as her husband is not interested in art , music .
will love to read the reviews of the others who are knowledgeable about Tagore's work . I recently read the book in Hindi .
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