Jalsaghar

Jalsaghar (1958), known in the U.S. and Europe as The Music Room, is the 4th feature film directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on a short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Banerjee, the film is a detailed dramatic study of the last days of a zamindar - a semi-feudal landlord in Bengal. Told with a detail and sense of empathy that typified Ray's films, Jalsaghar drew high praise internationally (Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, Derek Malcom in The Guardian), and is discussed in the second volume of Roger Ebert's Great Movies as a landmark film in global cinema.

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1958 - Satyajit Ray - Bengali - Zamindar - Bengal - Bosley Crowther - Derek Malcom - Roger Ebert

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